This morning I’ll have the opportunity to address educators at the 2013 PIER Summer Institute at Yale University. The theme of this year’s Institute is Global Youth in the Digital Age. One of the key components in the materials and threads I’ve seen coming out of the Institute includes an understanding of the term “engagement.” I…
This morning I’m keynoting the Literacy & Learning Conference at Bloomsburg University. This blog post (and an earlier post) contains the materials I’ll be presenting in my keynote and breakout sessions. The PPT for this session is available here…a recording is available immediately below the PPT. The keynote, and breakout session will focus on the…
TL;DR version: The ORMS class is an open, online class which provides educators with an understanding of a research-tested way to embed new literacies in the CCSS. To take the course, please click here. It’s finally complete. I finished my first “MOOC.” In the traditional sense it is not a MOOC as currently understood in…
Recently I’ve been sitting in on the work being conducted by Mozilla as they develop a new, open learning standard for Web Literacy. The current thinking that frames these Web Literacies is focusing on four “strands”: exploring, creating, connecting, and protecting. I’ve spent the past week engaged in some dialogue with some great minds on…
For years I’ve been researching and promoting the use of online video and screencasts in teaching and learning. Recently I presented this information at a TechTalk. At the TechTalk I was asked a question that I frequently am asked during one of these trainings. In working with educators, my advice is to produce videos, and keep the…
In a recent professional development event, I focused on my thinking about creating and using multimodal tutorials in teaching and learning. I indicated that it seems foolish to me to provide students or colleagues with a list of textual directions that indicate how to search and sift through different websites and online tools. It is also important…
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…
While at the Literacy Researchers Association conference in San Diego I once again had the privilege of presenting in our digital texts and tools study group. The focus of my session on the last day of the conference looked at using online tools to promote collaboration while writing. That led me to think about the process and…
Even though this has been a particularly busy week, I have been trying to keep up with my “classes.” I’m currently VERY far behind in my Google Power Searching class, but for the most part I’ve stayed up to date with #blendkit2012. The focus this week is on “blending interactions” between instructors and students that are…
The final title of my dissertation is: Facilitating Critical Evaluation Skills through Content Creation: Empowering Adolescents as Readers and Writers of Online Information The dissertation was successfully defended at 2 PM on August 31st, 2012…at 2 PM. I embedded the final materials as well as the proposal below for those of you that are interested. Abstract…