Category: NWP
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Notes from “Integrating New Literacies into Classroom Practice and the Resulting Impact on Site Leadership”
Notes from “Integrating New Literacies into Classroom Practice and the Resulting Impact on Site Leadership” NWP 2009 Annual Meeting This session invited four teacher consultants/tech liaisons to discuss their personal experiences with technology and the ways in which these experiences led to changes in their site’s work. Knowing two of these teachers through my work…
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Notes from Danielle Nicole DeVoss’s Opening Keynote at NWP’s “Digital Is…”
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…
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Looking for Feedback on the Idea of a Digital Writing Project
As we prepare to head to the NWP Annual Meeting and NCTE Convention in just about a week, I am also plugging away at our Chippewa River Writing Project Continued Funding Application. I have come to one of the most compelling parts of the report, at least for me… the point where we reflect on…
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Third Episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers: Conferring and Response to Digital Writing
Teachers Teaching Teachers: Conferring and Response in the Digital Writing WorkshopOctober 14, 2009 In this final episode of our three part series, please join Troy Hicks, author of The Digital Writing Workshop, and Director of the Chippewa River Writing Project at Central Michigan University, as we continue exploring the principles and practices described in the…
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Do You Use 3×5 Cards? Rethinking the Research Process
This past weekend, our department chair received an email from a local high school English teacher who asked, in short, should they be teaching students how to do a “traditional” research paper — including the use of 3×5 note cards — because some of his colleagues are strong supporters of it and others consider it…
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Teachers Teaching Teachers — Episode 2: Exploring Author’s Craft
Teachers Teaching Teachers: Exploring Author’s Craft in the Digital Writing Workshop October 7, 2009 In this second episode of our three part series, please join Troy Hicks, author of The Digital Writing Workshop, and Director of the Chippewa River Writing Project at Central Michigan University, as we continue exploring the principles and practices described in…
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Upcoming Series on Teachers Teaching Teachers
Each Wednesday for the next three weeks, I will be hosting a series of episodes that invite teachers highlighted in the book on for conversations about teaching in the digital writing workshop. Here is the announcement for this week’s webcast: Teachers Teaching Teachers: Choice and Inquiry in the Digital Writing Workshop September 30, 2009 This…
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Teaching teachers about connected learning
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…
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Story on CRWP from The News @ Central
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From our site visit earlier this winter, the media and public relations team at CMU has put together an article and podcast about the Chippewa River Writing Project. I find it fitting that as we pursue digital writing within the project that the way in which it was announced to the CMU community comes in…