Category: Composition
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Teaching Blogging with Kathi Yancey
Today, I am at Fordham University, presenting at their summer literacy institute focusing on 21st Century Literacies. I am honored to have the opportunity to present with Kathi Yancey, and she is currently in the middle of her session about “Blogging Alive,” asking participants to think about the purposes and audiences for blogging. She began…
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Notes from Steve Graham’s “Evidence-Based Practice in Writing”
Another great session this week, this time with one of the co-authors of the Writing Next report: Steve Graham. Here is an overview from the MSU LARC site: Steve Graham, Vanderbilt University Evidence-Based Practice in Writing – Drawing on Experimental, Qualitative, and Single Subject Design Research for Answers Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:30am – 1:00pm…
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Randy Bomer’s Keynote about New Literacies
Notes from Randy Bomer‘s keynote at MRA 2008: “Writing Transformations: How New Literacies and New Times Invite Us to Rethink Composition” Literacy is changing, literacy as design Obstacles: accountability measures and deficit thinking If we are constantly trying to fill in gaps, we are not moving into the future. Looking at education from a deficit…
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Brown Bag Presentation: Multiliteracies in Composition
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.…
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Imagining the New Humanities
Here is a video from Richard E. Miller, the Chair of the Department of English at Rutgers, explaining his thinking about the shift to a new vision of the humanities and how that vision will be enacted through physical space at the university. It certainly suggests some of the changes that we will have to…
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A (Somewhat Surprising) Survey of Digital Natives
Inside Higher Ed shares some results from a recent survey of college students about their uses of technology. Among the more interest findings: Instead, students appear to segment different modes of communication for different purposes. E-mail, Web sites, message boards and Blackboard? Viable ways of connecting with professors and peers. Same for chat, instant messaging,…
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“YouTube Studies” vs. “College Credit for Watching YouTube”
A media professor has begun teaching a class on YouTube. Not so unusual that this would happen, given the fact that YouTube has been around for awhile now. In fact, it is kind of cool that it is finally happening. What I have found more interesting is that as I have been catching up on…
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Google School Interview and Mapping a Composition Course
Digital Planet, and excellent program that is on the top of my podcast playlist each week (subscribe to it here), offers us some insights from Google about the future of their work with education: GOOGLE SCHOOL Could Google expand its empire into education as well? Google is expanding into many fields such as advertising, mapping…
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Back to School (2.0)
Things have been absolutely crazy the past two weeks, but that has been good for me especially as I get back in the swing of teaching. As I begin the semester, there are a few things that I’ve been thinking about that I want to capture here and come back to think about more later.…