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:
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!”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.”
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
