Karen Chichester's Bookmarks
Engaged Writers: Crafting New Texts, authored by Peter Kittle
The prevalence of new multimedia authoring tools embedded in personal computers' operating systems or contained within websites has redefined the...
Bee Foster's resource, "Redefining Text," sets the stage for why all teachers should concern themselves with emerging composition practices. Bee...
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
Although the Internet seems to be free, it actually consumes huge amounts of electricity. As the resources in this collection point out, globally the...
Manfred Dworschak finds that one Google search consumes enough energy to power an 11-watt flourescent light bulb for as much as an hour.
Twitter. Facebook. MySpace. LinkedIn. Wikispaces. Edublogs. Youtube. Flickr.
Many of us in the NWP network maintain profiles across an ever-...
This short read, from the New York Times website in October 2010, follows the author as she puzzles over the phenomenon of being asked by Facebook if...
Windows into Classrooms: The Growing Digital Is Collection of Resources, authored by Christina Cantrill
What does it mean to teach digital writing? Not in general, but in specific: specific teachers, specific students, specific opportunities?
Digital Is...
Seth Mitchell from the Maine Writing Project opens a window into his classroom, introducing us to a young writer named Shawn and the learning that...
Participatory Media, authored by Dave Boardman
In Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century, Jenkins, et al. (2007) characterize today's...
The fourth grade students of Philadelphia teacher Robert Rivera-Amezola produced podcasts about water pollution and conservation as a service...
Technology in Kindergarten, authored by Felicia George
Every early childhood teacher extols the value of creative experiences that allow young children the opportunity to explore and manipulate a variety...
Kindergarten and Technology: Is It Possible? That’s a question raised by a kindergarten teacher who has experimented with digital storytelling with...
Getting Started: Finding a Community, authored by Felicia George
Your decision about where to begin will and should hinge on several factors – your own interests and passions, the learning goals you have in mind,...
Through video and text we learn what a northern California school district did to bring its teachers on board with technology. Supported by a grant...
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...
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...
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Is it free for the taking? Or am I breaking the law? Our classrooms have gone digital, and we find...
Media literacy scholars and legal advisors developed this code of best practices to help educators make thoughtful decisions about interpreting the...
Exploring Composition, authored by Christina Cantrill
John Cage predicated in 1937 that the "entire field of sound" would become available in the future and that the old ways of writing (music, in this...
Students in Renee Webster's class recognize their "smart thinking," providing an opportunity for them to reflect on their work and words, recognize...
My friend Chris Lehmann likes to say, ‘What's good’ is better than ‘what's new.’ And he's right. Plenty of folks have wandered into, and lost,...
This wiki, developed by Will Richardson as a presentation handout, is an attempt to explore what he means when he talks about "connective writing."...
Teaching in the Digital Writing Workshop, authored by Troy Hicks
Released in 2009, The Digital Writing Workshop (Heinemann) blends the pedagogical approach of a "writing workshop" with the technical and rhetorical...
An inside view of Joel Malley's digital writing workshop, "Writing in a Digital Age" is a rich example of how a teacher both creates digital writing...
Digital Is..., authored by Danielle Nicole DeVoss
In November 2009, I had the honor and privilege of speaking to a group of NWP leaders, teachers, consultants, and friends at a convening for the NWP'...
This presentation was originally delivered in Philadelphia in November 2009 at a convening for the National Writing Project's Digital Is Initiative....
collaboration | digital is... | history | internet | kinetic type | lolcat | moving type | multimedia | web
More than ever before, we have at our fingertips all sorts of visual media. We've always lived in a "visual world," but the important differences...
Are the ways in which a photographer places people for a shoot, or the ways in which a photo is arranged before capturing it with a camera a form of...
The question of how to use technology in the classroom can often divide a school. Some teachers will embrace what's available to them, designing...
digital portfolio | English | essays | Google Docs | peer editing | writing
