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I have been teaching online for several years and one class activity which I have continually struggled with is the way to host a productive asynchronous class discussion. I believe (and have personally experienced terrific synchronous online discussions) but asynchronous online discussions bring...
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Late to the game, I've recently become intrigued by the six-word memoir form.
Started by Smith Magazine in 2006 with the question, "Can you tell your life story in six words," the idea has gained a lot of traction. Organizations like National Public Radio have picked up on it and Smith Magazine has...
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If you are already a member of the NWP Digital Is community, you know that we are looking to migrate this site to Drupal 7 (Drupal is the underlying content management system) while also make improvements to the website at the same time. Thank you to everyone who contributed their feedback and...
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As we look to continually transforming pedagogy in Albemarle County Public Schools to maximize student learning and opportunities for our young stakeholders, we have undertaken a creative initiative called Design 2015. As a principal this is an exciting opportunity to challenge not only...
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Cross-posted from NWP.org
February 28, 2013 (Washington D.C.) — A survey of teachers who instruct American middle and secondary school students finds that digital technologies have become central to their teaching and professionalization. At the same time, the internet, mobile phones, and...
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Ethan Zuckerman confronts the "narrative of civics in crisis," and poses thoughtful questions on how we can strive for civics education that is both effective and engaging.
Excerpts from "Is Civics in Crisis? Or Just Changing its Shape?"
If civics is in crisis, it's a long crisis, not a sudden...
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Bud Hunt suggests that teachers need time to explore, to wonder and question together. "Teaching is, and should be, a subversive activity." he says.
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By Mike Murawski, Portland Art Museum; Dana Carlisle Kletchka, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University; Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, National Writing Project, University of California Berkeley
“People’s relationships remain strong—but they are networked. Neighbors, and neighborhoods still exist...
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As a fairly recent addition to the National Writing Project family, I’m still getting used to some of my responsibilities.
One of the most challenging for me personally has been the use, monitoring, and management of Twitter.
My observation and perception of it prior to this had been as a platform...
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Inspired by my positive experiences with connected learning via Jon Becker's Build-a-MOOC workshop at EduCon, #ETMOOC, Verena Roberts' excellent examples of #DigiFoot12 and #CEETOpen and the resources I've found here at Digital IS, I'm going out on a limb and starting a connected learning...
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The other day, I came across Jason Seller's post about Interactive Fiction and became intrigued. This week, I dove in and wrote about my adventures as I sought to play with various IF possibilities and thought about how this kind of writing might have a place in my sixth grade classroom.
Day one: I...
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CRED is an arts and culture magazine that supports Philly’s young artists, designers, journalists, activists and entrepreneurs by providing them with opportunities to contribute and curate published content as well as advertise their business and services.
http://credmagazine-philly.com/ http://...
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I just finished awarding my students their badges for our Community assignment and I wanted to share the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of my venture into gamification as opposed to grading. I originally shared my reasons for replacing grades with badges in my post “Community...
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This is my first venture into the digital NWP. I am interested in becoming more involved. I retired from teaching English, I still teach GED prep at the Brevard County Jail, and I would like to be involved in NWP if they ahve a place for retired teachers.
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This article - originally posted by Radio Rookies Associate Producer Courtney Stein in December 2012 - is reposted here with with her permission.
These days, many teenagers live half their lives on social media sites, and they're writing the rules as they go. One online trend...
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The Morehead Writing Project will present a double session about our new Writing Studio program at the Kentucky Council of Teachers of English Conference next week. I will lead off our panel discussion with my explanation of how and why our site decided to start a Writing Studio program and then...
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I’m currently iterating some work around Web Literacies for the Mozilla Foundation (you can see the latest version of my thinking here). Perhaps the biggest consideration when dealing with so-called ‘New’ Literacies is distinguishing them from one another. As I've discussed many times before,...
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This is part of a larger conversation I have been having with Anna Smith about digital writing and literacies (and which we are archiving at Jog the Web and the National Writing Project Digital Is site.) Here, I ponder how we “find” communities and networks of other folks who...
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The Calfiornia Writing Project, along with Common Sense Media, is issuing a call to write and submit digital responses to the prompt: What does it mean to be an upstander?
According to CWP, an upstander is an individual, group or institution that chooses to take a positive stand and act on behalf...
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reposted, with edits, from In Community
I was the person behind the twitter handle @NWPDigital_Is when I tweeted:
#NWP is celebrating #DLDay w a focus on #ConnectedLearning. Join us! digitalis.nwp.org
February 6, 2013
That was sent sometime in the morning as a sipped coffee at my home in...
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