New York Teacher at the Center of Teaching in the Digital Age

Date: August 27, 2010

Summary: Joel Malley, a teacher-consultant with the Western New York Writing Project, was profiled for his teaching methods using digital media in Teachers Are the Center of Education: Writing, Learning and Leading in the Digital Age.

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Malley's students commence projects by writing. Whether they are mass media students, or in a regular English class, Malley's students map out their routes through words even though they take different project avenues including blogs, voice-over narratives, documentaries, or music videos, to name a few.

"You see your students have an awareness of an audience and you see their stories change over the course of a year," said Malley. "They consider how their audience will react and who their audience is. Their peers are also commenting on the social networks, which makes it a great avenue for tossing around ideas and being connected and aware of everything."

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