Category: Reflections
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Reflections on Project WRITE’s Summer Institute
Today marked the end of our Project WRITE summer institute, and there were both smiles and tears to be found amongst the many of us who shared our writing this morning and our professional learning this afternoon. My partner, project leader Liz Webb, structured an amazing week, given all that we had to do from…
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Notes from Margaret Hedstrom’s “The Future of Networked Knowledge”
Notes from Margaret Hedstrom’s “The Future of Networked Knowledge” Overview Announcement: Dr. Hedstrom is an archivist who is on the faculty of the School of Information at U of M. Her research interest is digital information. She has done some interesting cross cultural empirical research on user response to various methods of archiving digital files.…
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OLPC Keynote from SITE 2008
Sorry that it took so long, but getting back to another crazy week finds me now, on the Friday might before MRA 2008, catching up on SITE. That said, I have one final set of notes and reflections, and this keynote was a good one. Dr. Antonio Battro, the Chief Education Officer for One Laptop…
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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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From Workshop to Classroom: The Problems of Enacting Professional Development
This past week, I was invited to present an introductory workshop on digital storytelling to a group of teachers in Alpena. Minus some minor glitches in figuring out file management with brand new jump drives, the session went well from both my perspective and that of the attendees. Exit comments were generally positive and, since…
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Literacy alive and well in computer age – Perspectives – Opinion – Technology
From the Google Reader…. It makes no sense complaining about the decline of the printed word. As it becomes just another medium, we are moving to a kind of multimedia literacy, where capability with print becomes no more important, or useful, than capability with image. This is not necessarily a bad thing. There is no…
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An Update on Blogging, Podcasting, and Wikiing with Pre-Service Teachers
January has been a busy month for me as I have been coordinating field placements for my ENG 315 students and we have begun exploring the use of blogs, wikis, podcasts, and RSS in our teaching lives. When we began this work a few short weeks ago, only a handful of these pre-service teachers had…
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OLPC: Helpful or Harmful?
Over the holiday break, there has been an interesting discussing on the TechRhet list about the OLPC initiative. Aaron Barlow has been leading the con side of the debate, and outlines the argument in his blog, here, and points to articles about failed development projects such as the one here; the pro side generally gives…
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Comments on NYT: New Class(room) War: Teacher vs. Technology
Here is a clip from Samuel Freedman’s article in today’s NYT: New Class(room) War: Teacher vs. Technology – New York Times The poor schoolmarm or master, required to provide a certain amount of value for your child’s entertainment dollar, now must compete with texting, instant-messaging, Facebook, eBay, YouTube, Addictinggames.com and other poxes on pedagogy. “There…
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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…