Category: Conferences
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Tech Risks and Rewards During a Closing Keynote
Yesterday, I was invited to deliver the closing keynote for CMU’s Great Lakes Conference on Teaching and Learning. It was the 9th annual event and, oddly enough, also the end of my ninth academic year here at CMU… and I had never attended before. So, it was a great combination of a familiar audience filled…
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Remembering reThinking Literacy
A week ago, I was traveling abroad as a keynote speaker and workshop leader for the reThinking Literacy conference in Singapore. I wrote this post on the plane on the way home, but it has taken me nearly a week to get it posted to my blog. Sorry for the delay! As part of the closing…
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More Updates from AILA: Notes Visual Literacy and the Digital Workplace
Here are some notes from the first keynote was from Wibke Weber, in her talk about “Fusing words and images — new forms of public storytelling.” In recent years, the rise of multimedia creates a complex milieu of words and images; they must be seen as equal partners in meaning making Data visualizations In the…
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Updates from AILA Junior Researchers Meeting
This week, I have had the good fortune of presenting a keynote at the 7th Junior Researchers Meeting in Applied Linguistics, sponsored by the International Association of Applied Linguistics. I focused my keynote yesterday on both the work that I have done with my NWP colleagues to produce Assessing Students’ Digital Writing, as well as my…
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Make Write Repeat: Free Webinar on March 30
In partnership with Chris Lehman, Laura Fleming, and their colleagues at the Educator Collaborative, I will be presenting a webinar this coming Monday, March 30, at 5:00 PM EST. You can participate in the live stream of the keynote for free by registering here. Also, as it happens, I will adapt this keynote into an…
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Keynote from Reinventing the Classroom 2014 Virtual Conference
My thanks to Steve Hargadon for an invitation to speak during the Reinventing the Classroom virtual conference last week. The archive of my webinar is available on YouTube. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Reflections on the State of Writing Instruction
Over at Writers Who Care, Kristen Turner and I have shared some thoughts from our recent experience at Writing Research Across Borders III: Arthur Applebee, a leading scholar in the field of writing instruction, shared some new research during his keynote at the Writing Research Across Borders III conference last week in Paris. Applebee and his colleagues…
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WRAB III Wrap Up
This has been both a personally and professionally fulfilling week for me, as I was able to travel with colleagues from the US to participate in the Writing Research Across Borders III conference in Paris. Along with the sightseeing, which has been wonderful, the general spirit of inquiry and collegiality from around the world has…
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WRAB III: Writing As Multimodal Text Production
Here are slides from my talk, “Writing as Multimodal Text Production.” [iframe]<iframe src=”https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_z9oiSEUmE_-aRtI1QEozNNbY5kmiAVxcCNJnUjYa6Y/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000″ frameborder=”0″ width=”960″ height=”569″ allowfullscreen=”true” mozallowfullscreen=”true” webkitallowfullscreen=”true”></iframe>[/iframe] This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.