Digital Writing, Digital Teaching

Category: Project WRITE

San Antonio, Tech To Go, and Back to the Snow

Nov 26, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Collaboration, Composition, Digital Storytelling, English Education, Literacy, Multiliteracies, NCTE, NCTE 2008, New Literacies, News and Notes, Notes from Other Presentations, NWP, Professional Development, Project WRITE, RCWP, Social Networking, Teaching, Wiki, Writing

Apologies in advance for what will be a long post here, as my “reflection in action” during the conference consisted more of trying to find free wifi and navigating the Riverwalk than it did of actually having time to sit down and think. I tried to break my thinking up by day, for what that’s…
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,…
Reflections on Project WRITE’s Summer Institute

Aug 8, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Copyright, Creative Commons, Digital Storytelling, English Education, New Literacies, New Media, NWP, Professional Development, Project WRITE, RCWP, Reflections

Today marked the end of our Project WRITE summer institute, and there were both smiles and tears to be found amongst the many of us who shared our writing this morning and our professional learning this afternoon. My partner, project leader Liz Webb, structured an amazing week, given all that we had to do from…
Preparing for Tech-Focused Professional Development

Jul 3, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Collaboration, English Education, News and Notes, NWP, Professional Development, Project WRITE, RCWP

For the first time in four years, I will not be going to an NWP tech/writing style workshop, and I have to admit that I am a little bit bummed. Both Tech Matters and the Technology and Writing retreat have been good sources of inspiration and collegiality over the past few summers, and I hope…
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
An Update on Blogging, Podcasting, and Wikiing with Pre-Service Teachers

Feb 2, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Blogging, ENG 315, English Education, Methods, Multiliteracies, Professional Development, Project WRITE, Reflections, Teaching, Wiki, Writing

January has been a busy month for me as I have been coordinating field placements for my ENG 315 students and we have begun exploring the use of blogs, wikis, podcasts, and RSS in our teaching lives. When we began this work a few short weeks ago, only a handful of these pre-service teachers had…
Thinking about Multimodal Assessment

Dec 7, 2007

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, English Education, Multiliteracies, NWP, Project WRITE, RCWP, Teaching, Writing

Yesterday, our RCWP Project WRITE team had the good fortune of being able to work with NWP’s Director of Research and Evaluation, Paul LeMahieu, on an analytic writing continuum workshop. In his talk, which was similar to the session that I attended last summer, he talked about how the continuum has been developed, the pedagogical…
Reflections on Social Networking based on NCTE/NWP 2007

Nov 28, 2007

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Troy Hicks

in CEE, MCTE, MRA, NCTE, NWP, Professional Development, Project WRITE, RCWP, Social Networking

Today’s NCTE Inbox had an official list of blog posts about the convention, as well as Traci Gardner’s commentary about whether and how teachers should blog (for the record, she thinks that they should, although some districts do not). I find this thread of conversation an interesting complement to a few others floating around today,…