Technology Liaisons Network Resources
Featured Resources
Tweeting in the Summer Institute and Beyond
July 2010
Grant Faulkner
Teachers in summer institutes across the nation connected via Twitter this summer—discovering a social platform to share viewpoints, resources, and connections—as they built "personal learning networks" that continue on.
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Teachers Use Photo Prompts to Spark Writing
April 2010
Gavin Tachibana
Writing Project teachers are exploring new and exciting ways of using photographs as writing prompts to generate thoughtful pieces of work from writers of all ages.
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Michigan Network Learns Together About 21st Century Literacies
April 2010
Laura Roop
Responding to the wishes of many participants at two National Writing Projects of Michigan network meetings, the Red Cedar Writing Project designed a four-day, three-strand capacity-building workshop and invited every NWP site in the state to send a team.
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Additional Resources
Report Spotlights Revolutionary Use of Technology in Teaching Writing
June 2010
This report examines the critical role that teachers play in driving the use of technology in the classroom, and that technology plays in preparing students for success in the 21st century.
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Colorado History Lesson Gets the Tech Treatment
The Coloradoan,
June 2010
In partnership with the Colorado State University Writing Project, teachers and students in Fort Collins are using technology to create podcasts and multimedia shows to produce the Save Our Stories history program.
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Writing Project Teachers as Writers and Bloggers
March 2010
Grant Faulkner
Writing Project teachers around the nation are increasingly blogging about their classrooms, their pedagogy, education reform, and other topics as they use blogs as a tool for inquiry and reflection—and as a way to converse with a community of educators.
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Moving Toward the Paperless Institute
March 2010
Eric Hasty, Bob Fecho
Two teachers from Georgia's Red Clay Writing Project document a journey from a summer institute that relied on paper-based communication to one that employs blogs, wikis, online discussion groups, and other technology.
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Book Review: The Digital Writing Workshop
February 2010
Ken Martin
Ken Martin, technology liaison with the Maine Writing Project, says this book's emphasis on connecting writing workshops to technology tools will alleviate the fear or preoccupation with which many teachers approach new media.
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Book Review: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media
January 2010
Thomas Maerke
Thomas Maerke, a teacher-consultant with the Ozarks Writing Project, recommends this book as a way of developing awareness of the ways new media affects students and their learning.
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Teachers Teaching Teachers Focuses on Technology and Teaching Writing
2010
Through a weekly interactive webcast, New York City Writing Project teachers bring together teachers from across the country and the globe to discuss issues of classroom practice with new digital technology and to think through shared curriculum projects.
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The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
April 2009
This code, developed especially for the educational community, supports educators in making thoughtful decisions about interpreting the copyright doctrine of fair use to support media literacy education.
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Thinking Strategically About Your Site’s Web Presence
April 2009
In considering how to design a Web presence for your site, you'll find here a variety of resources, including case studies that outline the process undertaken by a number of writing project sites. The case studies include a multimedia presentation from the Western Massachusetts Writing Project.
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The Role of an NWP Technology Liaison
2007
This document was written to help local site leaders think collaboratively about the role technology can play at a local writing project site.
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