Category: Conferences
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Notes from Arthur Applebee’s WRAB Keynote
This morning, WRAB III kicked off with conference organizers greeted 1140 colleagues from around the world, followed by a keynote from Arthur Applebee, an academic hero for those of us interested in writing research. Many of his ideas from this talk are also shared in his recent book, Writing Instruction That Works, looking at 20 schools, both in…
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Q/A from “Technology and Education” Session
A number of undergraduate students presented today at Central Michigan University’s first annual conference on English studies, “Movement, Mobility, and Migration.” One particular session at the end of the day had a great Q/A, and I tried to capture some notes here from the “Technology and Education” forum. A few of the ideas that we…
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A Kid’s Eye View of Digital Rhetoric
For my first post on the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative blog, I figured that I should make a multimodal composition. So, I used the technology that we had available to interview my daughters about their thoughts related to “digital rhetoric.” Enjoy! [iframe] [/iframe] Cross posted at “Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative.” This work is licensed under…
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Service Learning and Teaching Writing (AERA, Part 2)
One of the considerations that I am keeping in mind as we re-imagine the midtier field placement for ENG 315 is to wonder if and how we could conceive of it, at least in part, as an opportunity for service learning. While it is critically important that our students spend time in elementary and middle…
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Adaptive Assessment and the Purposes of Educational Technology (AERA, Part 3)
Roy Pea has long-studied educational technology and, in this interchange with Larry Cuban hosted by Tapped In, reminds us that: A second caution is replacing flesh with silicon. The point here about technology is to augment physical, hands-on learning, face-to-face encounters, not to replace it, and yet, certainly, there may be places that come to…
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The New Normal: NWP and NCTE 2011
A moment in front of the Chicago Institute of Art on my first night. Each fall, November brings the NWP Annual Meeting and the NCTE Annual Convention, two events that mark the new year in my professional life. This year was no different, yet quite different at the same time in the sense that the NWP as…
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Teach Digital Writing: Five Paradigm Shifts for K-12 Education
Tomorrow, I will be speaking with Danielle DeVoss and Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, co-authors of Because Digital Writing Matters, at the first ever WIDE-EMU Un-Conference. For my chunk of the plenary address, I will be presenting: Teach Digital Writing: Five Paradigm Shifts for K-12 Education My hope is that by using AuthorStream here to present both the slides…
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Notes from Kelly Gallagher’s Talk at the Dublin Literacy Conference
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Kelly Gallagher kicks off the Dublin Literacy Conference with his keynote on “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It.” Here are some notes from his presentation. Kicks off with Barry Lane’s “Basalreaderville” parody. Interestingly, Barry asked me to have my students create accompanying slideshows that he could use in…