Best Practice – Page 8 – Digital Writing, Digital Teaching

From Sentence Combining to “Revision Decisions”

Nov 13, 2014

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in Best Practice, English Education, Interviews, Methods, News and Notes, Professional Development, Teaching, Writing

This week, I am happy to be one stop on the blog tour for Jeff Anderson and Deborah Dean’s new book, Revision Decisions: Talking Through Sentences and Beyond (Be sure to visit stops one, two, and three for some great insights from Stacey, Sarah, and Donalyn, too). In interest of full disclosure, I was provided an advanced copy…

Contributing to the Conversation: Pre-Service Teachers Get Started on Twitter

Sep 3, 2014

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Troy Hicks

in Best Practice, CMU, Collaboration, Connected Learning, ENG 315, News and Notes, Professional Development, Reflections, Social Networking, Teaching, Writing

Over the past week, my ENG 315 students have been joining Twitter and using the #eng315cmu hashtag to start discussing ideas related to teaching writing and creating their own PLNs. I provided them with a few resources to get moving along. First, to create your own professional learning network and reading list, begin by reading How…

Inviting Pre-service Teachers into the Social Media Conversation

Aug 17, 2014

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Troy Hicks

in Best Practice, CMU, Connected Learning, Crafting Digital Writing, ENG 315, English Education, Methods, Mobile Learning, Online Learning, Professional Development, Social Networking, Teaching, Writing

This fall — in fact, tomorrow — marks my return to the classroom after a year-long sabbatical filled with many research projects, lots of writing, and quite a bit of travel. Like most teachers, I both crave and fear the “regularity” of the school; the days become somewhat more regimented, but the overall craziness of…

Digital Literacy Leadership Dare

Jul 25, 2014

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Troy Hicks

in Academic Life, Best Practice, CMU, Education Reform, English Education, Professional Development, Reflections, Teaching, Writing

This morning, on the final day of our digital literacy leadership workshop, we watched Chris Lehmann’s Ignite talk about “School 2.0,” and I borrowed some of his ideas to create our writing prompt: What do you dare to do as a digital literacy leader? One of the themes that has emerged for me over the…

How I Lead (Professional Development)

Jun 28, 2014

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Troy Hicks

in Best Practice, Collaboration, NWP, Presentations, Professional Development, Reflections, Teaching, Writing

Writing about myself is always a challenge (evidenced by the fact that I instinctively wrote “oneself” at the beginning of this sentence, then went back to revise it). Here on my blog — as well as in my books and articles, and throughout the many workshops and presentations that I lead — I constantly reference the work of others,…

Live, Learn, and Thrive

Apr 17, 2014

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Troy Hicks

in Best Practice, Digital Is, News and Notes, NWP, Professional Development, Sabbatical, Social Networking, Teaching, Writing

Though I first met Meenoo Rami before a National Writing Project retreat in January 2011, it was over that long weekend that my wife, Sara, and I were able to talk with her about a new venture she was beginning, #engchat. I was intrigued by her idea that a weekly chat could be something interesting…

Conversation with Carl Young’s Class

Apr 16, 2014

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, Best Practice, Choice and Inquiry, Collaboration, Composition, Conferring and Response, Digital Writing Workshop, Interviews, Methods, News and Notes, Professional Development, Reflections, Sabbatical, Teaching, Writing

Last night, I had a Skype conversation with students of my friend and colleague, Carl Young, who are taking a course on teaching composition and reading The Digital Writing Workshop. It was a robust conversation, and they had really smart questions. I have, with permission, simply copied and pasted the text from their original wiki…

One-To-One Technology ‘Is Really About Building Effective Relationships’

Apr 12, 2014

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Troy Hicks

in Best Practice, Cyber Infrastructure, Hybrid Learning, Interviews, Mobile Learning, News and Notes, Online Learning, Professional Development, Reflections, Sabbatical, Teaching, Writing

My thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for the invitation to respond to his EdWeek Teacher Blog question: What are the Dos and Don’ts of having a successful one-to-one computing (where every student at a school gets a device) program? Check out the post to see responses from Alice Barr and Mark Pullen as well. This work is licensed under…

Updates from Recent Collegial Conversations

Dec 17, 2013

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, Best Practice, Blogging, Collaboration, Conferring and Response, Digital Writing Workshop, Hybrid Learning, News and Notes, Professional Development, Reflections, Sabbatical, Teaching, TPACK, Writing

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…

Notes from Michelle Hagerman’s “Disruptive Promise” Dissertation Defense

Dec 2, 2013

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Troy Hicks

in Best Practice, Collaboration, Digital Reading, English Education, Internet Research, Literacy, Multiliteracies, New Literacies, Online Reading, Reading in a Digital Age, Sabbatical, Teaching

As the fall semester nears its end, I am planning one more round of classroom visits to work on our “Reading in a Digital World” book project. So far, Kristen Turner and I have collected nearly 1000 surveys and 20 interviews. We are still doing lots of thinking on all of this. Thus, I wanted…

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