Category: RCWP
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Conversation about Research Writing Rewired on NWP Radio
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in Argument, Assessment, Best Practice, Books, CCSS, Collaboration, Connected Learning, CRWP, English Education, Hybrid Learning, Interviews, Literacy, Mobile Learning, New Literacies, News and Notes, NWP, Online Learning, Podcast, Professional Development, RCWP, Reflections, Research Writing Rewired, Sabbatical, Teaching, WritingLast night, my friend, colleague, and co-author — Dawn Reed — and I were featured on the National Writing Project’s weekly podcast, NWP Radio. Enjoy this episode in which we discuss the interwoven themes of reading, writing, and technology through a conversation about our book, Research Writing Rewired. This work is licensed under a Creative…
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Reflections on Transformative Technology Integration
An NWP colleague, Natalie Bernasconi from the Central California Writing Project, recently sent an email with some questions: I’m interested in how infusing technology into the classroom as exemplified by Youth Voices and other initiatives changes the way teachers see their own role and their own identity. I’m also interested in examining the relationship between…
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Composing Community
My friend and RCWP colleague, Marcus Brown, has been working for about a year to open the Village Summit in the house next door to his Lansing home. You can read about many of the trials and tribulations that Marcus, his wife, and everyone involved in creating the Village Summit have had to endure in…
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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…
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Congrats to Janet and all RCWP Teachers
Been a long time since I’ve been blogging… hope to get “caught up” on some emerging ideas over spring break. But, for now, here is some good news from RCWP. Congrats to Janet for her leadership and all my colleagues whose work made this award possible! The Engaged Scholar – Featured MSU Engaged Faculty –…
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Notes from RCWP Google Day
Notes from Andrea Zellner‘s RCWP Google Day Presentation Reflecting on Google Teacher Academy Thinking about the tools almost exclusively, and we want to focus on literacy practices Writing prompt: What is Literacy? What is Technological Literacy? How are they different? How do they support one another? Literacy — the ability read, write, listen, speak, view,…
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NCTE Webinar on Tuesday (12-2-08)
Shameless self-promotion alert: My friend and RCWP colleague, Dawn Reed and I are facilitating an NCTE Webinar, Re-Seeing the Writing Process with Blogging and Podcasting, on Tuesday, December 2nd at 5:00 PM EST. Thanks to all who have sent kind words my way about the webinar. It promises to be a learning experience for Dawn…
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Smile Teacher, You’re on YouTube!
An RCWP colleague and friend, Heather Lewis, posted this message to the RCWP listserv last week: http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0810/youtube.html I found this article interesting. Part of me is like: I shouldn’t do anything in my class I wouldn’t want broadcast. But then part of me is like: Hey, they’re taking things out of context and slanting the…