Category: NWP
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NWP Teachers Featured at K12 Online
Two sets of colleagues from the NWP will be featured this week in the K12 Online Conference. Wednesday, Paul, Susan, Lee, and Chris are doing a session on “Building Online Communities for Youth.” You can catch the conversation that I moderated for their planning on the TTT website. Tomorrow, Kevin and Bonnie will be presenting…
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Pondering the Curricular Value of Digital Writing
A few weeks ago in Chico, I was fortunate enough to meet John Bishop from the other RCWP, Red Clay Writing Project located near Atlanta, and we had a splashing good time there! Since then, I have been following his blog and I am particularly interested in the recent post that he created about exploring…
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Initial Podcast from Tech Matters 2007 – Building a Metaphor for Your Site
In this podcast, I capture some of the voices of TM07 as we prepare for our first dinner together and then move through the “Building a Metaphor for Your Site” activity. (Pardon some of the recording problems as I am getting used to my new Sansa Express MP3 Player/Digital Voice Recorder.) First, I attempt to…
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Framing Tech Matters 2007
A little over a year ago, David Warlick blogged about a provocative idea — what would it take to tell a “new story” about education as it is changing in the 21st century. From that post, and our collective understanding of the read/write web, the Tech Matters 2006 team decided to use the three broad…
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Greetings from Chico
In addition to my regular blog readers, I would like to extend a special hello this week to my RCWP colleagues who, I hope, are following from afar my adventures at Tech Matters 2007. They are in the last week of the summer institute, and I miss being there, but hope that my work at…
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End of 21st Century Literacies Meeting Reflection
The questions that we have collectively explored the past two days leave me with many thoughts, which I will get to in a moment. First, I need to synthesize this weekend with the other working retreat that I recently attended — the CEE Leadership and Policy Summit in Chicago. Having had two weeks to reflect…
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Opening Thoughts, Day 2
Opening Thoughts – Day 2 Dixie Goswami – Bread Loaf Think about a follow up conference in 2009 that would invite the young people with whom we are working to attend as well. The literacy that our young people are learning is collaborative; every talk that I have heard shows that the students are the…
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Closing Thoughts on Day 1
Closing Thoughts on Day 1 Six friends of the NWP will offer closing comments on day one! Jackie Royster – Truisms Literacy is not benign – it has social and policitcal power wiht predictable and unpredictable conseuences. Digital technologies make it easier to see Truism 1. We have teachers who want to do right by…
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Mid-Day Reflection: Refined Thinking on Conference Questions
As we move into the afternoon’s work, we have been asked to refine our thinking about the conference questions. So, here are some brainstormed ideas… What stood out for me most in Joe and Ailish’s case study this morning was the fact that Joe, having a firm understanding of writing pedagogy, took a tool that…