Category: Composition
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Thoughts on Technology and Literacy Professional Development
Last week, a number of RCWP teachers met to plan professional development for the 2007-08 school year. The meetings went well, as we discussed a number of issues about how and why we should be doing technology/writing PD and we all agreed that we needed to make the sessions compelling to teachers in terms of…
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Pondering the Curricular Value of Digital Writing
A few weeks ago in Chico, I was fortunate enough to meet John Bishop from the other RCWP, Red Clay Writing Project located near Atlanta, and we had a splashing good time there! Since then, I have been following his blog and I am particularly interested in the recent post that he created about exploring…
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Response to “Writing Next” Report
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Monday, we will be discussing the Writing Next Report, issued by the Alliance for Excellent Education. Here are my thoughts on the prompt, “How has reading the Writing Next Report encouraged you to rethink aspects of your teaching practice?” The Writing Next Report, written by Steve Graham and Dolores Perin, issued earlier this year by…
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Blast from the Past (Or, the More Things Change…)
Earlier today, an RCWP colleague – Marcia – invited me to lunch to celebrate my graduation. She also brought me a unique gift: a collection of four books ranging in copyright date from 1888 – 1918, all a part of her personal collection of antique educational artifacts. There is a guide to the district schools…
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Of Photography and Five Paragraph Essays
For the past two Mondays, I have been attending a photography class. This was a Christmas present from my wife, and a much-needed break from the regular weekly routine in this cold, cold mid-winter stretch. The award-winning photographer teaching the class, Ron St. Germain, shares a number of tips and tricks while also teaching us…
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Engaging Writers with Interactive Genre Samples and Peer Review
The folks at UofT are at it again, and this project looks to be quite useful for writing teachers who are beginning to think about how technology can be useful for more than just web searching: iWRITE is web-enabled courseware developed at the University of Toronto by Margaret Procter and colleagues to support the use…
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(Re)Imagining the Writing Workshop
Today, I invite you to think about what the writing workshop model offers for teachers and students and how it relates to Michigan’s ELA High School Content Standards. Differentiating Writing Process from Writing Workshop Quick write: What is Ray’s argument that she is trying to make for teaching writing? Do you agree or disagree with…
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Visions of Technology In English
Tomorrow, I will be working with a colleague’s class of pre-service English teachers. He asked me to “offer this group is a vision or several visions of what is possible regarding technology and writing” and I can think of a few, but there are two rolling around in my mind right now. First, I return…
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Students Researching Online
Paul has invited me to be part of an upcoming Teachers Teaching Teachers show about students doing research online. Check out the Google Notebook for the show to get a sense of what will be happening and let me know if you have things that you want to add to it. My interest in this…
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Peer Review Publishing
Yesterday, I attended “Peer Review Publishing as a Tool for Teaching Biotechnology: The MMG 445 eJournal Experiment Using Production-Level Freeware” by George Garrity, MSU Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. George will describe a teaching experiment, now in its second year, that he and his colleagues, Terry Marsh, and Scott Harrison, began in MMG 445: Basic Biotechnology.…