Category: NWP
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Teacher Leadership and Digital Writing
This weekend, I began working with teacher leaders from the Columbus Area Writing Project on the hybrid course we are calling “Teacher Leadership in Teaching Digital Writing.” I’ve been fortunate enough to make many trips to Columbus in the last few years, and look forward to having this opportunity to work with these NWP colleagues…
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NWP/NCTE 2012: Mentoring Matters
As NCTE President Sandy Hayes said at the very beginning of the convention, this entire weekend would feel like Christmas: so long in the making, with the magic lasting only a moment. Still, what a moment it was, and continues to be, as the many conversations I had this weekend still resonate with me. Natalie…
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Preparing for NWP/NCTE 2012
It’s the most wonderful time of the year for English teachers! We are just weeks, days really, away from the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention and the National Writing Project Annual Meeting. As a way of gathering my wits and preparing to head to Las Vegas in a few weeks, I am…
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Reflections on CRWP 2012 Open Institute
As many readers of my blog know, the funding situation that hit the National Writing Project in the spring of 2011 still causes repercussions throughout our network. One way that we at Chippewa River Writing Project have responded is, for this summer, to hold out on offering an invitational institute and, instead, offer a hybrid…
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Digital Mentor Text #4: “Size Matters Not”
Here we are, midweek, in our series on mentor texts in the digital writing workshop, and I’m feeling just a bit left out in the sense that I’ve chosen to focus on professional mentor texts in that I am not commenting on student work like Bill, Katie, Kevin, Tony and Franki are. The thinking on these topics so far…
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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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Fox News HackJam
At the WIDE-EMU Un-Conference, Andrea Zellner introduced us to Hackasuarus and the idea that we can remix websites as a form of digital writing and expression. So, given the very limited time that we had, I wanted to try to make something that was a political commentary. This was an interesting digital writing process, as…
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Reflections on Digital Writing (Future of Education Interview)
Yesterday, I had the good fortune to talk with Steve Hargadon on his Future of Education webinar series. Details of the show, including access to the MP3 version and Elluminate sesssion archive are available with those links, and also are on his blog. It was a wonderful and far-ranging conversation about the importance and effects of…