We love in a multimodal world where our students are inundated with a steady stream of media and digital content. ICT tools have the ability to reach certain students that would usually have troubles with the traditional forms of “text” that we privilege in our classrooms. But, with all of the advantages and excitement surrounding…
Yesterday I had the privilege to present with Leanne Drapeau, Greg McVerry, and Sue Ringler-Pet at NCTE. This is part of our yearly investigation into the intersection between poetry and technology. Basically every year for the past five or six years we come together and try to identify cool ways to have students play with technology…
Just finished a tutorial for a session on audio podcasts and Soundcloud in the classroom. The session will happen next week as one of the Digital Texts and Tools sessions at our MA New Literacies Institute. The idea behind the session, and the use of the tool came from discussions Greg McVerry, Sue Ringler-Pet and…