WEDNESDAY, October 14, 2015
Sharpening Our Digital Pencils: Hacking as Writing
Featured Speaker: Andrea Zellner, Teacher Consultant, Red Cedar Writing Project
RECORDING SLIDES RESOURCES
What happens when we interact with every web page as a writeable space? The maker and hacker movements have re-imagined our interactions in spaces as opportunities for creativity; they’ve re-imagined digital spaces as invitations to think about how to improve them by remixing or remaking them. As digital citizens, we have the rights and responsibilities to learn not only how to be literate through reading and writing in online spaces, but how to manipulate the spaces themselves. In this session, we will hack the webinar through a series of creative invitations to make, write, re-mix, and do.
Using Digital Think-Alouds to Reflect on Writerly Choices
Featured Speaker: Amber White, Teacher Consultant, Saginaw Bay Writing Project
RECORDING SLIDES RESOURCES
What happens when students are invited to reflect on challenging writerly decisions they have made while digitally composing? Come explore how Digital Think-Alouds can deepen students’ learning about the craft of writing by heightening awareness of their desire to make their writing as clear, precise, informative and aesthetically compelling as possible for the their audience.
Make. Write. Repeat. + Facilitated Attendee Discussion
Keynote: Prof. Troy Hicks, Ph.D., Central Michigan University
RECORDING SLIDES RESOURCES
The "maker" movement has taken hold in education, and its core principles reward those who take risks, create, fail, reflect, and start the process anew. In what ways can we connect the ideas of "making" and "writing" to rethink literacy instruction? With examples from a number of teachers and by exploring many digital writing tools, we will discover opportunities for our students to make, write, and continue the process of learning over and over again.
Sharpening Our Digital Pencils: Hacking as Writing
Featured Speaker: Andrea Zellner, Teacher Consultant, Red Cedar Writing Project
RECORDING SLIDES RESOURCES
What happens when we interact with every web page as a writeable space? The maker and hacker movements have re-imagined our interactions in spaces as opportunities for creativity; they’ve re-imagined digital spaces as invitations to think about how to improve them by remixing or remaking them. As digital citizens, we have the rights and responsibilities to learn not only how to be literate through reading and writing in online spaces, but how to manipulate the spaces themselves. In this session, we will hack the webinar through a series of creative invitations to make, write, re-mix, and do.
Using Digital Think-Alouds to Reflect on Writerly Choices
Featured Speaker: Amber White, Teacher Consultant, Saginaw Bay Writing Project
RECORDING SLIDES RESOURCES
What happens when students are invited to reflect on challenging writerly decisions they have made while digitally composing? Come explore how Digital Think-Alouds can deepen students’ learning about the craft of writing by heightening awareness of their desire to make their writing as clear, precise, informative and aesthetically compelling as possible for the their audience.
Make. Write. Repeat. + Facilitated Attendee Discussion
Keynote: Prof. Troy Hicks, Ph.D., Central Michigan University
RECORDING SLIDES RESOURCES
The "maker" movement has taken hold in education, and its core principles reward those who take risks, create, fail, reflect, and start the process anew. In what ways can we connect the ideas of "making" and "writing" to rethink literacy instruction? With examples from a number of teachers and by exploring many digital writing tools, we will discover opportunities for our students to make, write, and continue the process of learning over and over again.
