Category: Presentations

Report from RCWP’s WIDE PATHS 2010

Feb 27, 2010

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Troy Hicks

in Choice and Inquiry, Collaboration, Composition, Copyright, Digital Storytelling, Digital Writing Workshop, English Education, Fair Use, Literacy, Media and Pop Culture, Multiliteracies, News and Notes, NWP, NWPM, Presentations, Professional Development, RCWP, Social Networking, Writing

This morning, I was fortunate enough to be invited “home” to present my session, “Creating Your Digital Writing Workshop” at Red Cedar Writing Project‘s WIDE PATHS II. Beyond the wonderful feeling of being “home” with about 30 colleagues from RCWP and sharing my book with them, I continue to be inspired by the amazing work…
Sessions at Wisconsin State Reading Association Conference

Feb 4, 2010

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, Composition, CRWP, Digial Writing Project, Digital Storytelling, Digital Writing Workshop, New Literacies, News and Notes, NWP, Presentations, Professional Development, Social Networking, TPACK, Wiki, Writing, WSRA 2010

Tomorrow, I will be presenting two sessions at the Sessions at Wisconsin State Reading Association Conference. Here are descriptions of the sessions and the related presentations: From School to Screen: Why Digital Writing Matters (9:30 – 10:45) Without question, writing continues to change in the twenty-first century. Teachers, administrators, parents, and other stakeholders value the…
Reflections on NWP and NCTE 2009

Nov 26, 2009

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Troy Hicks

in CCCC-IP, CEE, Copyright, Creative Commons, CRWP, Digital Is, Digital Writing Workshop, Media and Pop Culture, NCTE, NCTE 2009, News and Notes, Presentations, Professional Development, Reflections, Social Networking, Teaching, TM07, TPACK, Writing

As the holidays begin, another conference season comes to a close. For the past week, Sara and I have been in Philadelphia at the National Writing Project‘s “Digital Is…” pre-conference, the NWP Annual Meeting, and the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention. As it is each year, we enjoy spending time with colleagues…
Quick Quote in MEA Voice

Mar 24, 2009

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Troy Hicks

in ENG 315, MRA, News and Notes, Presentations, Professional Development, Reflections

Just today, a colleague of mine was telling me that I need to be better at self-promotion. So, here goes… Future teachers (college students now) use blogs and wikis to share their own writing—so they can someday help their own students do the same. “Teachers are teaching the digital generation,” explained Troy Hicks, assistant professor…
Rough Draft Thinking for a Hybrid Professional Development Experience

Sep 11, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Cyber Infrastructure, Multiliteracies, New Literacies, New Media, News and Notes, Open Content, Open Courses, Presentations, Professional Development, Project WRITE, RCWP

Well, we have a hybrid professional development experience coming up on September 24th for the Project WRITE teachers. In trying to meet a number of constraints and opportunities, I have set up a wiki page for the evening’s activities. Here is some of my thinking about why and how this is set up this way,…
April Showers Bring Me Back from the Blogging Drought

Apr 9, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Bright Ideas 2008, ENG 315, English Education, Internet Research, Media and Pop Culture, Presentations, Social Networking

March was like a lion for me… beginning, middle, and end. I wish there was a better excuse, but that’s the long and short of it. Conferences, prepping my portfolio for my annual review, teaching, grading, etc. OK, enough of that. My purpose tonight is to just capture some thinking on a presentation that Rob…
Project WRITE Presentation Information

Mar 5, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Podcast, Presentations, Project WRITE, SITE 2008

Thanks to those of you who attended my session at SITE 2008 on Project WRITE. As promised, here are links to the items discussed in the session: Project WRITE Wiki Project WRITE Blog Presentation on Slide Share Presentation Podcast Please leave comments here so we can continue the conversation. Thanks, Troy
Brown Bag Presentation: Multiliteracies in Composition

Feb 25, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, CMU, Composition, Multiliteracies, New Media, Presentations, Professional Development, Reflections, Wiki, Writing

Last Friday, I was invited to lead a “brown bag” session for my English department’s composition program. Titled “Multiliteracies in Composition,” we focused our pre-reading on an article about a second-year college composition course developed at Michigan Tech called “Revisions.” Details can be found in the following article: Lynch, Dennis A., and Anne Frances Wysocki.…
From Workshop to Classroom: The Problems of Enacting Professional Development

Feb 17, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Collaboration, Digital Storytelling, English Education, Presentations, Professional Development, Reflections

This past week, I was invited to present an introductory workshop on digital storytelling to a group of teachers in Alpena. Minus some minor glitches in figuring out file management with brand new jump drives, the session went well from both my perspective and that of the attendees. Exit comments were generally positive and, since…
ACE Workshop Shout Out

Nov 20, 2007

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Troy Hicks

in NCTE, News and Notes, Presentations, Professional Development

Just a quick shout out to all those who attended the ACE Workshop yesterday as a part of NCTE 2007 and have begun to build our wiki. I enjoyed leading the wiki writing session. Thanks, too, to Rob, for organizing the event. Lots of teaching and grading still to do this week before the turkey……