Category: NWP
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Many Thanks to Many Colleagues
There are a few moments in one’s career where you pause long enough to say “thank you” to all your colleagues for all the opportunities that they have provided you. So, I am taking one of those moments this morning to say thanks to the many teachers, students, fellow English educators, and friends that I…
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How I Lead (Professional Development)
Writing about myself is always a challenge (evidenced by the fact that I instinctively wrote “oneself” at the beginning of this sentence, then went back to revise it). Here on my blog — as well as in my books and articles, and throughout the many workshops and presentations that I lead — I constantly reference the work of others,…
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Connected Learning Webinar
Today, I enjoyed a conversation with a number of colleagues about the “The Digital Influence on Looking Closely at Student Work.” Definitely worth a listen, and be prepared to write down lots of ideas about how to engage deeply with students’ work as a tool for assessment and professional development. Andrew Sliwinski – Co-Founder of DIY.org;…
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HuffPost Live Interview
At the invitation of colleagues from NCTE, I just participated on HuffPost Live in a conversation about literacy rates in America. Please check it out and share. [iframe]<iframe src=”http://embed.live.huffingtonpost.com/HPLEmbedPlayer/?segmentId=51e437cc02a7601c1b00051e” width=”480″ height=”270″ frameBorder=”0″ scrollable=”no”></iframe>[/iframe] This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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NWP Crafting Digital Writing Webinar
Thanks to my many friends and colleagues who joined in our conversation yesterday about my new book, Crafting Digital Writing, as well as the professional development experiences that they are creating this summer around the book. It is both exciting and humbling to know that so many other writing project sites are engaged in these…
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Crafting Digital Writing
So pleased to announce that Crafting Digital Writing: Composing Texts Across Media and Genres was officially released today by Heinemann. Here is the text from the back cover: “We have an opportunity to help this generation define itself on its own terms. The question is no longer whether or not we should use technology to teach writing;…
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Open Letter to Educators: (Re)Defining Digital Learning Day
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Dear Educator: Tomorrow (well, technically today by the time I am done writing this) is the second annual Digital Learning Day. Cool. I’m all for digital learning, as the title of my blog implies. But, as we prepare for the onslaught of tweets, blog posts, videos, webinars, and other celebrations, it is worth exploring the definition…