Category: Conferences

Notes from “The Social Media Portfolio: Using Technology to Promote Meta-cognitive Skill Development” at NWP’s Digital Is

Nov 18, 2009

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Troy Hicks

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The Social Media Portfolio: Using Technology to Promote Meta-cognitive Skill Development At NWP’s Digital Is Rafi Santo, Amana Kaskazi, and Shonell Richmond Global Kids 20 Years in existence and focusing on significant global issues Issues: Local to global and global to local understanding Leadership: Skills necessary to affect change Technology: How does new media contribute…
Notes from Danielle Nicole DeVoss’s Opening Keynote at NWP’s “Digital Is…”

Nov 18, 2009

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Troy Hicks

in Composition, Copyright, Creative Commons, Cyber Infrastructure, Digital Is, Digital Storytelling, Fair Use, Internet Research, Literacy, Media and Pop Culture, Multiliteracies, New Literacies, New Media, Notes from Other Presentations, NWP, Professional Development, Teaching, Writing

Danielle Nicole DeVoss asks us to think about what digital was then and is now… Digital is… Networked — we compose in networked spaces Collaborative — people are able to connect and create through these networks (LolCats) Multimodal — typography, kinetic type, digital stories Re-Mediated — taking a media object and recreating it so it…
Notes from Dan Priest’s “Rethinking Technology in the Multimodal Classroom”

Oct 30, 2009

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Troy Hicks

in Composition, English Education, MCTE, Media and Pop Culture, Notes from Other Presentations, Professional Development, Teaching, Writing

Dan Priest is a pre-service teacher from Western Michigan University and presented “Rethinking Technology in the Multimodal Classroom” at MCTE‘s fall conference. He suggested that his explorations of the internet and some of the tools available continue to inspire the ways in which he teaches with technology. Using his Wii remote/homemade Smartboard, he argues that…
Teaching Blogging with Kathi Yancey

Jul 2, 2009

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Troy Hicks

in Blogging, Composition, English Education, New Literacies, Notes from Other Presentations, Writing

Today, I am at Fordham University, presenting at their summer literacy institute focusing on 21st Century Literacies. I am honored to have the opportunity to present with Kathi Yancey, and she is currently in the middle of her session about “Blogging Alive,” asking participants to think about the purposes and audiences for blogging. She began…
Teaching teachers about connected learning

Jul 1, 2009

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Troy Hicks

in CRWP, Digial Writing Project, New Literacies, Notes from Other Presentations, NWP, Professional Development

This morning, we are in the middle of week two of our Chippewa River Writing Project summer institute, and the timing for writing this post couldn’t be better. Yesterday, we went to the CMU library and our English reference librarian, Aparna Zambare, gave us an introduction to the library databases and Zotero. Minus a few…
Notes from “Digital Storytelling: Enhancing Language, Visual, and Media Literacies”

Mar 15, 2009

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Troy Hicks

in Collaboration, Digital Storytelling, Literacy, MRA 2009, Multiliteracies, New Literacies, New Media, Notes from Other Presentations

Digital Storytelling: Enhancing Language, Visual, and Media Literacies MRA 2009 Presentation Ledong Li, Tingfeng Luo, Wen Wu, Fan Zhang, Oakland University What’s Your Story? Stories Surround Us What is digital storytelling? Daniel Meadows: “short personal multimedia tales toldfrom the heart” Educational Use of Digital Storytelling Focus on specific topic and contain a particular point ofview…
Notes from RCWP Google Day

Feb 7, 2009

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Troy Hicks

in ENG 315, English Education, Multiliteracies, New Literacies, Notes from Other Presentations, Professional Development, RCWP, Teaching, Writing

Notes from Andrea Zellner‘s RCWP Google Day Presentation Reflecting on Google Teacher Academy Thinking about the tools almost exclusively, and we want to focus on literacy practices Writing prompt: What is Literacy? What is Technological Literacy? How are they different? How do they support one another? Literacy — the ability read, write, listen, speak, view,…
Reflections on EduCon 2.1

Jan 26, 2009

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, Collaboration, Copyright, EduCon, Fair Use, Professional Development, Reflections, Teaching

NOTE: This was written yesterday in the post-conference, pre-flight moments that I had on the train from downtown to the airport. Since my flight didn’t arrive in Lansing until about 1:30 AM last night, I was just now able to put the finishing touches on it. Hope it makes some sense… Sunday, January 25, 2009…
Notes from 21st Century Assessment

Jan 25, 2009

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, EduCon, Notes from Other Presentations, Professional Development, Teaching

Notes from 21st Century Assessment Session Konrad Glogowski What we know about assessment Assessment is the tail that wags the curriculum dog Grades with substantive comments have the most impact on learning What impact does a blogging community have on the role of the teacher? Reflecting on what happens in the classroom, both online and…
Notes from “Using Social Media to Define the New Humanities”

Jan 24, 2009

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, EduCon, New Humanities, New Literacies, New Media, Notes from Other Presentations, Social Networking, Teaching, Writing

Notes from “Using Social Media to Define the New Humanities” – Antonio Viva Thinking about new humanities Context, conversation, collaboration How do we educate our students for success in the web 2.0 world? Can we harness the power of social media to provide students with a vehicle for exploring and creating original content? Old School…