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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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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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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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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.

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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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:
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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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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