Tuesday, June 30, 2009

What do we want a site like Youth Voices to be? on Teachers Teaching Teachers Wednesday

What do we to be able to do on a school-based social network like http://youthvoices.net ?

With the support of the National Writing Project and the design and technical expertise of Bill Fitzgerald and his colleagues at Funny Monkey, we have been building a Drupal site for a group of teachers whose plan and collaborate together.

Susan and I have invited Chris Sloan, Fred Hass, George Mayo (maybe?), Sheri Edwards, Michael Dodes… and others who have wanted to or have actually used Youth Voices this year.

We want to have a careful, honest exploration into what worked well this year and what might have gone better. What do we want our site to do? What do we want our community to do? What’s the difference between creating blog posts and discussion posts?

We might also get a report from NECC.

If you’ve considered using Youth Voices… if you are interested in the power and potential of a Drupal site to build community… If you have students post on blogs or discussion boards… We’d love to include you in this conversation.

Please join us on this week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers. Join us, at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times

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Saturday, June 27, 2009
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Friday, June 26, 2009
lfarm:

Tonight’s sunset was no joke.
Other photos here.

lfarm:

Tonight’s sunset was no joke.

Other photos here.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Senior Projects, Podcasting in a Speech Class, and Mummies and Vampires on this week Teachers Teaching Teachers

This week will be our third (and last) webcast that spins off the the book, Teaching the New Writing: Technology, Change, and Assessment in the 21st Century Classroom, which was edited by anne Herrington, Kevin Hodgson, and Charles Moran.

Here’s how the folks at the National Writing Project describe our guests. Kevin Hodgson will be faciliting the conversation:

Chapter authors Dawn Reed, high school teacher and teacher-consultant with the Red Cedar Writing Project; Troy Hicks, associate Professor and director of the Chippewa Writing Project; and Bryan Crandall, high school teacher and a teacher-consultant with the Louisville Writing Project, will share examples of their classroom practices to prompt a discussion about audience in writing using digital technology.

The topics they discuss will include high school students using multimodal ways of writing in a speech class and an example of what happens when you take the senior project “digital.”

In addition, Marva Solomon will be joining us to talk about her work with a small group of struggling elementary school writiers. The title of her chapter in Teaching the New Writring is “True adventures of Students “Writing Online: Mmmies, Vampires and schnauzers, Oh My!”

Please join Kevin Hodgson and these guests at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times

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Friday, June 19, 2009
There’s always so much more to say, but here’s some of my thinking about Youth Voices at the end of the 2009 academic year.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Collaborate with us tonight on Teachers Teaching Teachers 9:00 Eastern / 6:00 Pacific

Glen Bledsoe, Jeff Schwartz, and I (Paul Allison) will be interviewed by Kevin Hodgson this week (actually a few hours from now) on Teachers Teaching Teachers. (It will be fun to be on the other side of the microphone!) We’ll be talking about collaboration and the tools we use to collaborate in the classroom.

Here’s how the National Writing Project describes what we’ll be talking about on this show.

As educators move forward into the terrain of digital literacy and learning with their students, part of the challenge is balancing the innovation of new technology with the accountability of assessment.

The recently published book Teaching the New Writing: Technology, Change, and Assessment in the 21st-Century Classroom explores these balancing acts through case studies of elementary through university-level classrooms where teachers are integrating technology with writing and where the assessment of the digital work and student learning is being explored.

Chapter authors Paul Allison, a high school teacher, technology liaison at the New York City Writing Project, and facilitator of TTT; Glen Bledsoe, an elementary teacher and teacher consultant at the Oregon Writing Project at the University of Oregon; and Jeff Schwartz, high school teacher and member of the Bread Loaf Teachers Network, will share examples of their classroom practices to prompt a discussion about the collaborative nature of writing when using technology in the classroom.

Please join us! We would love for this to dissolve into a free-for-all conversation about collaboration. We plan for time when you can join us via skype if you would like.

Join us, at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times

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Monday, June 15, 2009
Despite the considerable recent attention devoted to the ‘Net Generation’, few Australian studies have documented the characteristics of this group and little evidence has been provided to support claims made about the Net Generation and its implications for higher education in Australia. The ‘Net Generation’ or ‘Digital Natives’ are born roughly between 1980 and 1994 and have been characterised by their familiarity with and reliance on information and communication technologies. A number of commentators have argued that the digital culture in which the Net Generation has grown up has influenced their preferences and skills in a number of key areas related to education. Some commentators have also questioned the extent to which Universities and their staff are equipped to meet the needs of this incoming cohort of students.

Overview : Educating the Net Generation : The University of Melbourne

I’ll be teaching seniors next year. Ah… the transition to college.

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Digital Humanities have a utopian core shaped by its genealogical descent from the counterculture-cyberculture intertwinglings of the 60s and 70s. This is why it affirms the value of the open, the infinite, the expansive, the university/museum/archive/library without walls, the democratization of culture and scholarship, even as it affirms the value of large-scale statistically grounded methods (such as cultural analytics) that collapse the boundaries between the humanities and the social and natural sciences. This is also why it believes that copyright and IP standards must be freed from the stranglehold of Capital, including the capital possessed by heirs who live parasitically off of the achievements of their deceased predecessors.

A Digital Humanities Manifesto » The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0

I need some time with this document!

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Sunday, June 14, 2009 Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Teaching the New Writing on Teachers Teaching Teachers Wednesday 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific

Susan and I would like to invite you to join us on Wednesday at 9:00 pm Eastern / 6:00 pm Pacific at http://edtechtalk.com/live.

Here’s a couple of quotes from a current MacArthur Spotlight that describes what you’ll hear:

On June 10th join editors of Teaching the New Writing, a new book from The National Writing Project, a MacArthur grantee. They will discuss new directions in student composing as the boundaries between written, spoken, and visual blur and audiences expand.
 
Editors Anne Herrington, Kevin Hodgson, and Charles Moran from the Western Massachusetts Writing Project will address these and other questions in this interactive webcast on June 10th, drawing from insights and discoveries they made while writing their new book, Teaching the New Writing. The book pulls together teachers’ stories, practices, and examples of students’ creative and expository writing from online and multimedia projects such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, and electronic poetry.
 
Webcast to Help Teachers Reimagine Writing in a Digital World
 
Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, codirector of the National Writing Project will be with us as well.

This is the first of three Teachers Teaching Teachers shows this month that will focus on this book. Next week and the week after, we will have various authors from the different chapters Teaching the New Writing on the show.

Please join us at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times

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Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim

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Saturday, May 30, 2009
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Rey-Rey’s Music Studio Recital presents

Ryan Allison in Recital

accompained by Keith Burton, pianist

The Theater Space at Holy Trinity Church

Tuesdcy, May 26, 2007 7:00 PM

Program

Come Again, Sweet Love     Dowland

Three Shakespeare Songs:     Quilter
Come away, Death
Oh Mistress mine
Blog, blow, thou Winter Wind

The Dodger (Old American Songs)     Copland

Al Amor (Canciones clasicas espanolas)       Obradors
Silencio                                                        Hernandewx

Antham (Chess)      Andersson, Rice & Ulvaeus

Finishing the Hat (Sunday in the Park with George)     Sondheim

Left Behind (Spring Awakening)     Sheik & Sater

Giants in the Sky (Into the Woods)     Sondheim

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Looking for stories about resilient students in your classroom

First a request, then an invitation. (If you’ve never listened to a Teachers Teaching Teachers webcast or podcast — this might be a good time to join us.)

The Request
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If you have a moment. Please tell a brief story by leaving a comment here: http://edtechtalk.com/comment/reply/3760#comment-form after you listen to the podcast — or even while you listen?

The Invitation:
This group of National Writing Project teachers:
  • DeWayne Dickens, Oklahoma State Writing Project
  • Suzanne Linebarger, Northern California Writing Project
  • Irina McGrath, Louisville Writing Project
  • Lynette Herring-Harris, Thinking Partner for Rural Sites Network
  • Vanessa Brown, Thinking Partner for the Urban Sites Network, Philadelphia Writing Project
will be back on Teachers Teaching Teachers this Wednesday. June 3rd. Join us, at EdTechTalk at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times

We’ll be talking about resilience and technology, and resilience and professional development… AND whatever you bring up. We will be leaving lots of space for you to participate.

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Friday, May 29, 2009

Rey-Rey’s Music Studio Recital presents

Ryan Allison in Recital

accompained by Keith Burton, pianist

The Theater Space at Holy Trinity Church

Tuesdcy, May 26, 2007 7:00 PM

Program

Come Again, Sweet Love     Dowland

Three Shakespeare Songs:     Quilter
Come away, Death
Oh Mistress mine
Blog, blow, thou Winter Wind

The Dodger (Old American Songs)     Copland

Al Amor (Canciones clasicas espanolas)       Obradors
Silencio                                                        Hernandewx

Antham (Chess)      Andersson, Rice & Ulvaeus

Finishing the Hat (Sunday in the Park with George)     Sondheim

Left Behind (Spring Awakening)     Sheik & Sater

Giants in the Sky (Into the Woods)     Sondheim

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Meet Glib Teenage Feminists on Wednesday's Teachers Teaching Teachers

File this one under student self-initiated work that gives you hope for the future — and the present too!

We’ve invited the young women who started a feminist blog recently to join us on Teachers Teaching Teachers. Let’s learn what they are up to. And before the show, do yourself a favor and check out some of their posts.
Women’s Glib is a community of nerdy, foul-mouthed youth. Miranda started the adventure in January, after many months spent wondering if she was up to the task of maintaining a blog. She was very quickly joined by Katie, Ruth, Zoe, Phoebe, Shira, Silvia, and Kyla. Guest contributors also help spread the feministy love now and then.
Here’s what they say on their about page:
Women’s Lib[eration], a.k.a. feminism: n., belief in the social, political, and economic equality of all people regardless of gender or sex

glib: adj., performed with a natural, offhand ease

Women’s Glib is a blog by and for young feminists and womanists. Contributors are teenage New Yorkers, writing about what matters to us with a focus on feminism and other progressive values. We cannot and do not speak for all teenagers or all young feminists; we simply speak for ourselves and write our own truths.
Come be inspired with us by this new generation of feminist bloggers.

Join us, at http://EdTechTalk.com/live tomorrow — Wednesday, May 27th — at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times
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Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim

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Monday, May 25, 2009
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