Category: Teaching
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Digital Writing, Digital Teaching 2.0
After another few weeks of trials and tribulations, the kind support team at LunarPages has helped me wipe my server clean and reinstall my original blog. I am reposting the “new” welcome that I posted in mid-October and, now, hope to be back up and blogging again. Nearly 10 years ago, Professor Michael Wesch created…
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Rethinking Scientific Argument with StoryMaps JS
This past week, I was able to cap off a summer whirlwind of PD at CMU’s Biological Station, facilitating what we are calling our first Beaver Island Institute. The six-day event brought together middle school science and ELA teachers for an opportunity to engage in scientific inquiry, explore argument writing in science, and understand aspects…
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Thinking Through a Digital Deliberation, Part 4: Handwriting, Typing, and Fluency
Today, I head to Rhode Island for the Summer Institute in Digital Literacy, and next Thursday I lead a “Digital Deliberation” session on “typing vs. handwriting.” In my first post for this series, I shared an overview of the debate. Then, in the second post, I look at handwriting curricula and typing tools. The third post explored the rhetorical approaches that…
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Thinking Through a Digital Deliberation, Part 3: What is Gained, What is Lost
In less than two weeks, I head to Rhode Island for the Summer Institute in Digital Literacy. One main item on my agenda is to lead a “Digital Deliberation” session on “typing vs. handwriting.” So far, I’ve shared some initial thoughts on the debate, as well as a look at some particular concerns with curricula and web-based tools.…
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Thinking Through a Digital Deliberation, Part 2: Handwriting and Typing Curricula and Websites
Later this month, I will help facilitate the fourth annual Summer Institute in Digital Literacy, at URI. As I noted in my last post, I will be leading a “Digital Deliberation” session on “typing vs. handwriting,” and in this post I want to build on Seán McHugh’s ideas about the practicality of teaching touch typing to a look at…
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Feature in ACI Author Spotlight
Thank you to ACI Information Group’s Traci Hector for featuring me in their Author Spotlight this month. Also, my profile on ACI is available here. As I continue to move forward in my career, I need to think about the ways in which sites like ACI, ORCID, and others work, I am curious to know more…
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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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Exploring the Design of a Digital Writing Assignment
During the month of May, my friend and Chippewa River Writing Project colleague Beth Gates has been working with her 11th grade students on a digital writing assignment. Many years ago, she began teaching a digital essay based on an idea from Jim Burke and shared on the English Companion Ning. I featured Beth’s work…
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Tech Risks and Rewards During a Closing Keynote
Yesterday, I was invited to deliver the closing keynote for CMU’s Great Lakes Conference on Teaching and Learning. It was the 9th annual event and, oddly enough, also the end of my ninth academic year here at CMU… and I had never attended before. So, it was a great combination of a familiar audience filled…
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Conversation with NCTE Colleagues for Digital Learning Day
As we near Digital Learning Day 2016, coming up this Wednesday, I was fortunate enough to be invited by NCTE to speak with Executive Director Emily Kirkpatrick and my colleagues Bill Bass, Franki Sibberson, and Kristen Turner. Though I am grateful that we are turning our national attention to digital learning on this day, I…