Category: Professional Development
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First Post from SDRC “Hack and Yack” Series
For the next two weeks, I will be blogging over at the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative’s blog for their “Hack and Yack” series (and cross posting here). This is my first entry that went live on January 14, 2014. By now — in fact, right now — there is a very good chance that you…
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Literacy Research Association Webinar
This afternoon at 2:00 PM EST, I will be participating in the Literacy Research Association’s webinar series. Today’s topic is Writing and Multimodality and I am looking forward to the conversation. Here are the slides and handout that I will be sharing: Hicks LRA Webinar Slides (PDF) Hicks and Perrin – Writing Dimensions Chart (PDF) Please join in…
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DLDay 2014 NCTE Chat
In the next few weeks, I will be participating in a few events related for Digital Learning Day. Here’s one of them: January 19, 2014: Celebrate Digital Learning! As you prepare for Digital Learning Day (#DLDay) — February 5, 2014 — join two NCTE members and edubloggers for a conversation about classroom technology’s past, present,…
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Interview on iPad Educators
My thanks to Steve Bambury and Sabba Quidwai for featuring me in an interview on their site, iPad Educators. Their archive of 2013 interviews is impressive, and I hope that my comments help get many teachers inspired to integrate digital writing into their classes this year! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons…
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Updates from Recent Collegial Conversations
Over the past few months, I’ve continue to have wonderful opportunities to speak at conferences and workshops, publish my work, and then share in conversations with fellow teachers. Two conversations in particular stand out as we had for the end of the calendar year. First, Kristen Turner and I were contacted earlier this fall by…
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Reflections on “From Ranganathan to Read/Write”
Today was a blur of activity at the Harrington School’s “From Ranganathan to Read/Write: Managing Digital Disruption in Libraries, Schools and Workplaces.” I tweeted most of what I was thinking throughout the day, yet wanted to offer a few reflections based on those tweets before everything escapes me. First, the day was framed around the following…
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Two New Articles for Teacher Educators and Parents
In the past two weeks, I’ve had to wonderful opportunities for writing, one through my colleague Todd Finley via Edutopia, and the other from a group of English educators via their Writers Who Care blog. Here is a brief preview from each, as well as links to the originals. Engaging Pre-Service Teachers in Authentic Writing…
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Keynote Presentation from the Discovery Educators Network Fall 2013 Fall Virtual Conference
Keynote Presentation from the Discovery Educators Network Fall 2013 Fall Virtual Conference Thanks to the many educators who joined in the conversation this past weekend as I presented “Mixing Sources, Amplifying Voices: Crafting Writing in an Information Age.” Here is the description, and the archived version of the keynote. As the inputs continue to multiply,…
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Tracing the Common Core in Michigan
My colleague Robert Rozema has asked me to speak at the Michigan Council of Teachers of English annual conference later this week about where the “common core conversation” is at in Michigan. So, I have gathered a few resources that trace CCSS implementation in our state, and across the nation, including the current debate. This…
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Please Join Us: K-12 Teaching in the 21st Century MOOC
Though I am a little late to the MOOC movement, I’m excited to be participating in a venture this fall — K-12 Teaching in the 21st Century — that will be facilitated by Rick Ferdig, Kristine Pytash, and a host of other educators from around Michigan. Here is a quick summary, and you can register…