Terry Elliott's Bookmarks
The Integration, authored by Katie McKay
As a nation, we were on the verge of electing our first African American president. Surely I could weave themes of acceptance and celebrations of...
Characterization in Novels, authored by Ted Baechtold
Understanding and Evaluating Characterization in Novels
Overview
The idea behind this unit is for students to develop a greater understanding of how...
Writing for a Worldwide Stage: Voice and Audience in Digital Media Production, authored by Peggy Marconi
All the world is a stage for today's students: Shakespeare was dead on for 21st-century learning. As classrooms begin to explore digital literacies,...
Leslie Moitoza recognized the need for computer literacy but was worried that she would be sacrificing rigorous academic work for, as she puts it, “...
Reading and Writing Transmedia, authored by Troy Hicks
We have told stories to each other since the dawn of human history. We instinctively organize our thoughts as stories. Well-crafted stories engage us...
In this collection, Laura Fleming describes the history and theory of transmedia storytelling, then goes on to offer a number of implications for...
The Short Form, authored by Paul Oh
The whole bird thing: bird chirps sound meaningless to us, but meaning is applied by other birds. The same is true of Twitter: a lot of messages can...
Keri Franklin, director of the Ozarks Writing Project and Assistant Professor Of English at Missouri State University, found that learning to tweet...
short form | texting | Twitter
Digital Writing and the Common Core, authored by Christina Cantrill
“Writing today,” say the authors of Because Digital Writing Matters, “is pervasively and generally digital; composed with digital tools; created out...
Although many would argue that most of the Common Core State Standards can be achieved in digital environments, they might wonder "do we really need...
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
~H.G. Wells
There is a scenario becoming all too...
In "Becoming a Fearless Explorer," Joe Wood provides an insightful and humorous narrative recounting his first foray into the techie domain. Joe's...
About Resources, authored by NWP Digital Is
All Digital Is resources aim to contribute to a growing knowledge-base about digital writing and connected learning. Resources may address elements...
John Seely Brown: Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Learner in the 21st Century, authored by Elyse Eidman-Aadahl
In this keynote from the 2012 Digital Media and Learning Conference, John Seely Brown walks the audience through a vision of how learning can be...
Try a New Thing: Digital Is Bingo!, authored by NWP Digital Is
Do you feel like there are more resources in Digital Is than you have time and energy to dig into? Make it into a game!
Using the list of traits and...
