I was reading through the National Writing Project’s Elyse Eidman-Aadahl’s comments about digital writing over at the DML Central Blog. As usual, she has some interesting things to say about where we are, and where things may be going, and the increasingly important role that teachers have in these transitions. Read the interview I found […]
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Considering Mentor Texts 5: The Emulation Issue
(Note: this blog post and a few more this week is part of a series around mentor texts and digital composition. The blog posts are all being collected over at Mentor Texts in the Digital Writing Workshop) I’ll start with a little story. Remember this? This was a commercial created by Google for the Superbowl […]
Book Review: The Information
It seems like a long time ago that I started The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, by James Gleick. It was. I kept picking it up and putting it down, again and again. Week after week, there it was. It was stubborn, and so was I, and yet, we found some way to […]
From Digital Ethnography: A Video Collage
You need to check this project out from Prof. Wesch and his students as they continue to explore the impact of technology on students. (Did one student say that 75 percent of what he knows he learned from Youtube?) Here is what Prof. Wesch says at their blog: Today the Digital Ethnography Research Team of […]
Whitewater Rafting: The Case for Experiental Learning
I know there are schools whose entire themes and philosophy is built on the concept of outdoor adventure and experiential learning. They work year-long curriculum around the idea of students engaging in nature. I wish we could do more of that, but really, our main attempt is our annual Whitewater Rafting trip on the Deerfield […]
Book Review: Because Digital Writing Matters
(hear the podcast of this review) I’ll admit many biases with this review. I am an avid supporter of the National Writing Project, which has given me many opportunities and connections as a teacher, writer and technology dabbler. And I get mentioned in this book, too. (More disclosure: NWP helped co-publish our book, Teaching the […]
Book Review: Reality Hunger
Such a strange, interesting book. Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields is an examination of the evolving nature of the personal essay, and yet, it really isn’t that, either. Shields’ technique is like a collage, using small passages of his own thoughts remixed with the words of others, stitched together into more than 500 […]
Avant-Garde Composing
When I was an undergraduate — majoring in English, minoring in music — I had a professor who seemed very much out of sync with our small state college surroundings. Dr. Peacock seemed to have come from the fabric of New York City’s avante-garde composition scene and what he was doing at our college was […]
Writing (digital) Poems with Bud
I continue to enjoy the poetry adventures over at Bud the Teacher’s blog. Bud posts a picture, a few words and opens up his space for poems. I get up, wondering what I might write about today. I’ve been using Vocaroo to record as podcasts, and Bill has followed my lead. The other day, Kelly […]
Are we now People of the Screen?
I finished up the collection of articles in The Best Technology Writing of 2009 (a recommended book for those of you with gift cards in hand, wondering what to read) and Kevin Kelly has another fascinating take on technology and culture in an article entitled “Becoming Screen Literate.” His premise is that the Age of […]