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2. Our Moderator: Anthony Rebora Managing editor of Education Week Teacher and the Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook. www.edweek.org/tm www.teachersourcebook.org

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4. 21st Century Teaching Series: Use Digital Tools Effectively to Enhance Student Learning Connecting Math Instruction to the Real World Feb. 24 @ 4pm eastern Expert Presenter: Dan Meyer, Math teacher and doctoral fellow at Stanford University. New Directions in Classroom Assessment www.edweek.org/go/pdwebinars March 23 @ 4pm eastern Expert Presenters: Sheryl Nussbaum Beach, founder of the 21st Century Collaborative and co-founder of the Powerful Learning Practice Network. Jennifer Barnett, Technology integration specialist at Winterboro School in Talladega County, Ala. Gerald Herbert/AP

5. An on-demand archive of this webinar is going to be available at www.edweek.org/go/PDarchivesin less than 24hrs.

6. Featured Guests Sara KajderAssistant Professor of English Education at Virgina Tech University. The first recipient of a National Technology Fellowship in English/Language Arts, Ms. Kajder is the author of Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students and The Tech-Savvy English Classroom. Joel MalleyTechnology liaison for the Western New York Writing Project & an English teacher at Cheektowaga Central High School in Cheektowga, N.Y. Mr. Malley was one of 10 educators featured in "Teachers Are the Center of Education: Writing, Learning and Leading in the Digital Age," a report produced this year by the National Writing Project, the College Board, and Phi Delta Kappa.

7. Using New Media to Enhance Student Writing Sara B. Kajder, Ph.D. Virginia Tech (skajder@vt.edu) Part One: Writing in a New Landscape

9. Timeline of Publications • “Writing, properly understood, is thought on paper... it is also thought on screen, a richly elaborated, logically connected amalgam of ideas, words, themes, images, and multimedia.” - The Neglected “R”, 2003, p. 13

10. NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies Twenty-first century readers and writers need to: • Develop proficiency with the tools of technology• Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively & cross-culturally• Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes• Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments

11. Writing, Technology and Teens (Pew Internet Study, 2008) • 93% report doing regular writing outside of school. • 49% report that they enjoy writing outside of school. • 97% report understanding that “writing is important to their success beyond school.” • 83% report that they dislike “writing in school.”

12. “Digital writing is not simply a matter of learning about and integrating new digital tools into an unchanged repertoire of writing processes, practices, skills, and habits of mind.” • - Because Digital Writing Matters (2010), 4. What is digital writing?

13. Underlying Teaching Beliefs • Freedom or control • Student activity or receptivity • Existing conventions or student-generated conventions • Structured instruction or free-flowing instruction • Print/written only or multimodal Smagorinsky, et. al (2011). The Dynamics of Writing Instruction. p. 9.

14. Developing a strong voice. • Lively, packed language. • Authority and confidence. • Immediate specifics and details. • Organization. • Purposeful, authentic writing that matters outside of our classroom. Writing “Non-negotiables”

15. Evaluate across modes. • Align mode and content with purpose and audience. • Design texts. • Use technical features for effect. • (Reflect.) Multimodal writers ALSO...

17. New Literacies Practices • Authentic Audience • Multimodal Composing • “Clickable Footprint”/Identity • Interest-driven Participation

18. This Week’s List... • Livescribe Pen • iPevo Document Camera • iPadio • Google Documents • Delicious/Diigo • Titan Pad/iEtherpad • VoiceThread • Twitter and Twitterfall • Jing

19. Critical Next Steps • Assessment • Standards • Building Capacity

20. Slide 7 -http://www.flickr.com/photos/info_grrl/5226216091/sizes/z/Slide 8 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/bellowsa/5297026840/sizes/z/Slide 12 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/fixersphotos/3199566032/sizes/l/in/photostream/ • Image Credits (Using Flickr Creative Commons)

21. Snapshots from a Digital Writing Workshop- Joel Malley, Cheektowaga Central High School

22. for student samples go to buriedinwires.blogspot.com

23. The Tools • 16 iMacs • 10 Flip style cameras • podcasting station • projector • classroom library

24. The Courses • English 10 • AP Literature and Composition • Mass Media and Film Production

26. Reflective Blog Posts

27. Stage One: Writing as Exploration

28. Writing to Learn • Social Network/Blogging Network (Ning or Grou.ps) as a public journal • low stakes writing • exploratory • generate story ideas, discuss issues or pieces of literature • participatory feedback

29. Stage Two: Drafting/Editing/Revising

30. Google Docs

31. Formative Feedback • breaks down barriers • watch drafts evolve and monitor progress • comment throughout the progress of a writing piece

32. Peer Collaboration

33. Summative Assessment

34. Revision History

35. yearly or long term PORTFOLIO

36. Stage Three: Writing in Multiple Modes

37. “The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind--creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers. These people-artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers--will now reap society’s richest rewards and share in its greatest joys.” - Daniel Pink

38. Mass Media and Film ProductionCourse Overview

39. Film and the Common Core • Use technology...to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others. (CCS Writing Standard 6) • Develop personal, cultural, textual, and thematic connections within and across genres as they respond to texts through written, digital, and oral presentations, employing a variety of media and genres. (CCS Writing Standard 11 NYS addition)

40. Film and the 2010 National Educational Technology Plan • “Whether the domain is English language arts, mathematics, sciences, social studies, history, art, or music, 21st-century competencies and expertise such as critical thinking, complex problem solving, collaboration, and multimedia communication should be woven into all content areas.”

41. Mass Media Projects • narrative based film • profile • narrative based music video • documentary

42. English 10 and AP Lit • Reimagining Romantic Poetry into film • narrative projects • Original poetry on film • Podcasts exploring gender • Post AP Exam

43. Reflective Blog Posts

44. Designing in Multiple Modes

45. digital writing matters • Increased Engagement • autonomy, mastery, purpose • authentic tasks • assumption of an identity

46. digital writing matters • Design • 21st Century Skills and Digital Storytelling

47. digital writing matters • Connected Writing • Audience • Increased attention to revision, voice, originality

48. for student samples go to buriedinwires.blogspot.com

49. Question & Answer Session Questions and Answers

50. 21st Century Teaching Series: Use Digital Tools Effectively to Enhance Student Learning Connecting Math Instruction to the Real World Feb. 24 @ 4pm eastern Expert Presenter: Dan Meyer, Math teacher and doctoral fellow at Stanford University. New Directions in Classroom Assessment www.edweek.org/go/pdwebinars March 23 @ 4pm eastern Expert Presenters: Sheryl Nussbaum Beach, founder of the 21st Century Collaborative and co-founder of the Powerful Learning Practice Network. Jennifer Barnett, Technology integration specialist at Winterboro School in Talladega County, Ala. Gerald Herbert/AP