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How is a powerful Summer Institute Constructed? Curating the Technologies that Help us Make it So
On our first day of the ISI, we created powerful spaces that pushed all to transform. In one space, each of us curated our Artifact Boxes, displaying...
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Ralph Cordova
8 weeks 6 days ago
Business Leaders, Politicians, and Teachers Oh My! Presenting to a Varied Audience
I was meeting with my San Diego Area Writing Project fellows Saturday morning and I was asked to discuss a little bit about my experience in D.C....
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Writing for Change
9 weeks 21 hours ago
A Summary of our Journey in 2 minutes 35 seconds, 48 hours from Washington D.C.
So today I spent a lot of time working on the lead in video for my presentation this Wednesday. I have between 17 to 20 minutes to present our work,...
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Writing for Change
9 weeks 1 day ago
Celebrate Poetry!
By now you probably know that it is National Poetry Month.  Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is now...
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Mia Zamora
9 weeks 1 day ago
Writing for Change
"The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you can alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can...
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Writing for Change
9 weeks 6 days ago
Opening the classroom door and going public with teaching
Lieberman and Friedrich write that “sharing one’s teaching, and the successes of one’s students, serves as a powerful mode of teacher leadership.”...
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Christina Cantrill
10 weeks 6 hours ago
"Starting at Home" - PSA Example
After students wrote poems and transformed them into digital pieces, they looked at the pattern of themes that emerged from their collective work....
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Jennifer Woollven
10 weeks 20 hours ago
"Racism"
"Being judged by the color of my skin.Why won't people just look within?"  This mixed-media presentation was created by a high school student in...
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Jennifer Woollven
10 weeks 20 hours ago
"Crooked Justice"
"See, the hues of right and wrong seem to blurWhen it reaches their shade of blue, their shade of justice." This is a student example of a digital...
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Jennifer Woollven
10 weeks 20 hours ago
Poetry as a Vehicle for Social Change
Poetry as a vehicle for social change is a collection of lessons and poetry that has been used in middle and high school classes in Central Texas....
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Jennifer Woollven
10 weeks 20 hours ago
Digitally Interfaced Book: Paper, Graphite, Makey Makey, Scratch, and Imagination
  As a professional artist, deepening the ways in which seemingly disparate objects and processes are interconnected through locating, and...
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christian mckay
10 weeks 1 day ago
Thinking About Teaching the New Civics
In 2013 the DML Conference landed squarely on the question of the relation between digital media and politics, calling questions about civic...
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Elyse Eidman-Aadahl
10 weeks 3 days ago
Using Digital Is to Explore Writing Instruction with Pre-Service Teachers: A Love Story
A few weeks ago, Cindy O’Donnell-Allen and Antero Garcia, both professors in the English department at Colorado State University and fellow NWP...
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Danielle Filipiak
11 weeks 6 days ago
Exploring Connected Learning
At the NWP, as well as in many other places across the globe (see #etmooc, #literacies chat, connectedlearning.tv, EdWeek) educators are learning,...
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Christina Cantrill
11 weeks 6 days ago
Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design
Connected learning is realized when a young person is able to pursue a personal interest or passion with the support of friends and caring adults,...
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Christina Cantrill
11 weeks 6 days ago
Voice and Composition: Authenticity Through Digital Literacies
by Dawn Reed I believe in the power of voice. As an English Language Arts teacher, I value voice in writing, speaking, and as a means to critical...
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Dawn Reed
12 weeks 5 days ago
Connected Learning Report Webinar Mini-Series
These Connected Learning TV webinar archives form a mini-series related to the release of the Connected Learning: An Research and Design Agenda...
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Christina Cantrill
13 weeks 18 hours ago
Back to School: The Podcast
One way to become "crazy good at the internet" is to hang out with folks who live and breathe the web and all things digital. For the past few years...
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Kim Jaxon
13 weeks 1 day ago
Digital Text & the Common Core Standards
At Area 3 Writing Project we used Because Digital Writing Matters as a foundational text for our 2011 Summer Institute.  Throughout our...
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Joe Wood
13 weeks 3 days ago
Authentic Audiences: Movie Making and Middle School
It started as a contest. I had wanted to use iMovie in one of my classes, but I wanted to have a clear purpose. It developed into a project that...
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Erica Blaschke
13 weeks 6 days ago
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