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Student Leaders
2 years 10 weeks ago

Nice work, Angie! I like that you encourage the students to experiment and tinker, rather than spending that time...

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Writing for Change
1 Resource | Tinkering and Exploration
How Media can Help Protect Cultural Losses
15 weeks 5 days ago

It is no secret that schools in the United States are mainly focused on the history, and in turn the reading of White...

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Tyler Arko
4 Resource | “My Homeland:” A Connected Learning Media exchange project between South Korean and Detroit HS Students
A Chance to Fail
14 weeks 6 days ago

The biggest learning come for me when I fail. I can sit in a classroom all day and write lesson plans as a student...

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Tyler Arko
1 Resource | Learning Alongside: Embracing Digital Storytelling with Social Justice in Mind
Teachers can help....other teachers
10 weeks 4 days ago

The one thing that I really enjoyed about the conversation that we participated in was that you were so willing and eager...

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Tyler Arko
2 Resource | Using Digital Is to Explore Writing Instruction with Pre-Service Teachers: A Love Story
Mr. I and Twitter
1 year 27 weeks ago

On Wednesday nights at 9:00 P.M., I sometimes meet up with other writing teachers via the hashtage #FYCCHAT
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Bill Torgerson
Resource | Twitter in the Classroom: Authentic conversation or "Just doing school?"
Thanks for the video
1 year 30 weeks ago

I love how you set up the tinkering in your classroom. This is something I am starting to think about more and more. I...

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Tommy Buteau
Resource | Tinkering and Exploration
Suggestion for student who did not complete project
20 weeks 7 hours ago

Hindsight, especially Monday morning quarterbacking, is perfect so take this with the humility intended.  I might...

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Terry Elliott
Resource | Final Thoughts
Renee's video referenced in Because Digital Writing Matters Book Discussion Ning
1 year 47 weeks ago

Renee,

Thank you for posting such a great piece. "I wonder..." Those sweet little voices... Such rigor and such...

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Heather Severson
Resource | Hearing Student Voices
The Notion of Power
6 weeks 16 hours ago

There's something wonderfully "meta" about having students do their own research on where power lies because information...

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Talie Tebbi
5 Resource | Collecting Data & Listening with Intention
Use "Caine's Arcade" to Teach Storytelling in the Classroom
40 weeks 5 days ago

"Caine's Arcade" is a short...

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Team Caine
1 Resource | Digital Storytelling
Reclaiming the "Ghetto"
2 years 8 weeks ago

Antero,

Thank you for posting this provocative description of the work you are doing with your class around the...

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Tanya Baker
Resource | Redefining Romeo and Juliet: Reclaiming the “Ghetto”
Inspired!
1 year 46 weeks ago

As a 4th grade teacher, I am excited about the possibility of using lit trips to connect geography to a variety of...

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Sunshine Anstine
1 Resource | Crafting Stories with Google Earth
Teaching to Learn - Effective Collaboration
14 weeks 6 days ago

A few things that stand out for me are the concepts of using technology to enrich teaching and learning, rather than using...

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Steven Graham
3 Resource | Teaching to Learn: Using Technology Purposefully to Support Student Learning
Reconceiving Social Networks
5 weeks 6 days ago

I find the idea of a “dialogic ecosystem” fascinating. Until fairly recently I always used to try to keep the frenzy of...

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Steven Graham
4 Resource | Using Digital Is to Explore Writing Instruction with Pre-Service Teachers: A Love Story
Accents on Twitter
2 years 9 weeks ago

When I heard this piece on NPR it made me think of the tweeters I had known online only at first, but then met face-to-...

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Steve Moore
Resource | "You Have An Accent Even on Twitter"
Hacking Apprehension
2 years 6 weeks ago

Keri,

I'm so glad you made this awesome resource. It's because of people like you willing to display their...

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Steve Moore
1 Resource | #PleaseHelp: Learning to Write (Again) on Twitter
Attending to attentionality
33 weeks 6 days ago

"Attention is the fundamental building block of how humans think," Rheingold says. Targeting attention as a literacy...

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Susan Wood
13 Resource | Paying Attention to Attention
Crediting work
1 year 47 weeks ago

I know it is just the way that the site is structured, but would it be possible to re-structure things so that the person...

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John Smith
3 Collection | Reading and Writing Transmedia
Starting Small: Building Empathy from "The Streets of Memphis" to Your Own Backyard
1 year 29 weeks ago

I implemented part of the module Empathy and Elaboration: Using 21st Century Tools to Enhance Creative Writing...

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Sheila McDermott-Sipe
3 Resource | Creating the Module
New is Better?
16 weeks 4 days ago

While I can't say I've had a serious amount of time spent in the classroom as a teacher, most of my life has been as a...

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Shelby Roberts
Resource | An Evolving Writing Classroom
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