Category: Notes from Other Presentations
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Note from “Blogging — Maximizing Writer’s Notebooks with a 21st Century Dimension”
Here are notes from my Crossroads Writing Project colleagues, Lavon Jonson and Sonja Mack: “Blogging — Maximizing Writer’s Notebooks with a 21st Century Dimension.” Background Bringing blogging into the traditional process of using a writers notebook Writing with your students encourages them to write (Graves, etc.) Blog Growth In April 2007, 70 million blogs, 90%…
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Randy Bomer’s Keynote about New Literacies
Notes from Randy Bomer‘s keynote at MRA 2008: “Writing Transformations: How New Literacies and New Times Invite Us to Rethink Composition” Literacy is changing, literacy as design Obstacles: accountability measures and deficit thinking If we are constantly trying to fill in gaps, we are not moving into the future. Looking at education from a deficit…
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Three More SITE Presentations: Pre-Service Teachers and Technology
These are the final three sessions that I will attend at SITE before heading home. I have notes on the keynote and follow-up conversation from this morning that I still need to clean-up and process (as well as a podcast for my presentation from a few days ago). I will get that all done later,…
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Two More SITE Sessions: Digital Storytelling
A Digital Storytelling Implementation Experience with Early Childhood Students Aslihan Kocaman-Karoglu, Middle East Technical University, Turkey What is digital storytelling? Story telling as an ancient tradition; digital storytelling integrates visual, interactive, and reiterative with constructive ideas “combining the art of telling stories with some mixture of digital graphics, text, recorded audio narration, video…” B. Robin,…
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Notes from Keynote on TPACK
Thinking Creatively: Teachers as Designers of Technology, Pedagogy, and Content (TPACK) Punya Mishra and Matthew J. Koehler, Michigan State University Three points to the refrain Teaching with technology is a wicked problem Wicked problems need creative solutions Teachers want to create solutions Teaching It is messy: Teaching is always “about something” — the content Yet…
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Two More SITE Sessions: Teacher Trust in Technology and Podcasting in Spanish Class
Why Do Some Teachers Trust Technology and Some Don’t? Andrea Francis, Michigan State University Reasons for Exclusion Lack of social and institutional support Lack of funding Lack of adwquate training for the task Psychological Factors Fear of using digital technologies Inability to overcome “functional fixedness” Why do some people trust technology and others don’t? Trust…
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Notes from Three Digital Storytelling Sessions
This week, I am at SITE 2008, preparing for a presentation on Project WRITE tomorrow. Today, I will try to blog from some of the sessions (as wifi will allow). Here are three sessions on digital storytelling that I attended this morning. (I will also cross-post on the Using Technology to Tell Stories Blog): An…
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Notes from “Educational Blogging: What, Where, Why and How”
Today, I had the chance to attend an educational technology session at MSU featuring Nicole Ellison, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies & Media, MSU College of Communication Arts and Sciences, and Leigh Graves Wolf, Learning Technology and Culture Programs, MSU College of Education. Their topic is “Educational Blogging: What, Where, Why and How.” Here are…