In a previous post I discussed my planning and thoughts around a Pecha Kucha style talk that I gave while at LRA 2013. This past year at LRA 2014, I worked with colleagues to develop a session in which we gathered a series of literacy researchers to each define our versions of “text.” Each of…
At the 2014 meeting of the Literacy Research Association, Doug Belshaw was invited to speak and present the current work on the Mozilla Web Literacy Map. Doug Belshaw is the Web Literacy Lead from Mozilla. In this invited session, we also invited four experts in the field to present prepared remarks in response to Doug’s…
We have continued to unpack data from the first round of the #WalkMyWorld project. This blog post shares materials from research I conducted with Julie Wise that examined pre-service and veteran educators and their experiences in the project. We also submitted the paper presented at LRA to Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice. It was published in…
Episode 004 of the LRA: Research to Practice Show was held on Monday January 17th from 7:00-8:00 pm. The purpose of the Research to Practice series is to connect current research and “best principles” to what could/should be happening in the classroom. We’ll be using Google Hangouts-on-Air to broadcast and save the shows. This means…
At the 2014 Literacy Research Association meeting in Dallas, TX I had the opportunity to facilitate and present in a “Pecha Kucha” style session. For those of you that are not familiar with pecha kucha, based on the Japanese for the sound of conversation, it is a presentation methodology in which 20 slides are shown for…
Episode 003 of the LRA: Research to Practice Show will be held on Monday January 13th from 2:00-3:00 pm. The purpose of the Research to Practice series is to connect current research and “best principles” to what could/should be happening in the classroom. We’ll be using Google Hangouts-on-Air to broadcast and save the shows. This means that you can watch the show live while it is…
TL;DR version: This post is the first in a series of posts in which I’ll reflect on events and discussions from the recent LRA Conference in Dallas, TX. I’m finally home, and caught up with grading, tenure materials, and other errands. In this first post I’ll discuss some interesting discussions and current events associated with…
Today (11/4/2013) we finally have the opportunity to start a new initiative with the Literacy Research Association. For those of you that are not aware, the LRA is a community of scholars dedicated to promoting research that enriches the knowledge, understanding, and development of lifespan literacies in a multicultural and multilingual world. I currently work…
I’ll be using this space to reflect (and decompress) a bit after a great week of sessions at LRA 2012. One of the first sessions that I worked on a bit with Greg McVerry and Polly Parker dealt with the data and teacher feedback from two years of New Literacies Institutes (NLI) with LPVEC. The Institutes have teachers and teacher…