the web can be a thing of beauty (& sustenance, too)
Best not to launch a serious journey without
chocolate. In order to sustain DMP
(digital media production), invest in a supportive network. Some folks may be able to keep up with
the rapid advances in digital media on their own, but I can’t and don’t want to
anyway. The few minutes spent
scanning the NWP Daily, the Connected Learning Network, and my email for
“ScoopIt Daily Summary” works like morning coffee. The occasional in-person retreats with colleagues, phone
calls, and Google hang-outs provide essential fuel and opportunity to get tips
and emotional support.
Here are a few suggestions:
1.
Connect with the National Writing Project . You can join Connect and Digital Is
from their website. NWP has established
support systems and important links with MacArthur Foundation and other leaders
in digital media work/play.
2. Invest in your Personal/Professional Learning
Network. Twitter and Facebook
provide efficient ways of sharing resources, publishing notices of blogging,
chats, and other opportunities for keeping up. Kevin Hodgson’s NWP
Daily almost always has updates I want to know about.
3. My interest in narrative discourse often gets
nurtured by Gregg Morris’
Scoop It site. I maintain a Good
Stories site for my college class on digital media and plan to do another
one for our University of Maryland Writing Project collaboration with Emma K
Doub ES.
4. Check out print resources (duh). Here are a few from my bookshelf &
electronic files:
Alexander, Bryan. The New Digital Storytelling. Praeger, 2011.
Ballast, Kerry. Heart and Voice: A Digital Storytelling Journey. On nwp.org 2007. http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2392
.
Buckingham, David. (Ed.) Youth, Identity,
and Digital Media.. MIT Press, 2008.
Fryer, Wesley. Playing with Media. Speed of Creativity
Learning LLC, 2011. (kindle)
Gee, James Paul. New Digital Media and
Learning. MIT Press, 2010
Greenhow,
Christine; Beth Robelia, & Joan Hughes. “Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship in a
Digital Age: Web 2.0 and Classroom Research: What Path Should We Take Now?” Educational Researcher, 38 (4), 246-259.
May 2009.
Herrington, Anne, Kevin Hodgson, & Charles
Moran (Eds). Teaching the New Writing:
Technology, Change, & Assessment in the 21st Century Classroom. NWP, 2009.
Hicks, Troy. The Digital Writing
Workshop. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann, 2009.
Hobbs, Renee. Reading the Media: Media Literacy in High
School English. TC Press, 2007.
Digital
& Media Literacy: Connecting Culture & Classroom. Corwin, 2011.
Jenkins, Henry. Confronting the
Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st
Century. MacArthur Foundation,
2009. (available free pdf).
Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture. New York University Press, 2006.
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory
Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century. MacArthur, 2011.
Kist, William. New Literacies in
Action: Teaching and Learning in Multiple Media. TC Press, 2005.
Lambert, Joe. Digital
Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community.(3rd Ed.)
Digital Diner Press, 2002/2009. Center for Digital Storytelling.
http://www.storycenter.org/book.html
Lankshear, Colin & Michele
Knobel. New Literacies: Everyday
Practices & Classroom Learning (2nd ed). McGraw-Hill, 2006.
McKay, Katie. Building Culturally Responsive Units of Study: From Texas to Mexico and
Back. December 1, 2009 http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2929
Morrell,
Ernest. Linking Literacy & Popular
Culture. Christopher Gordon, 2004.
Myers, Jamie and
Richard Beach. “Hypermedia
authoring as critical literacy,” Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy,
44 (6) March 2001.
National Writing
Project. Because Digital Writing Matters.
Jossey-Bass, 2010.
Ohler, Jason. Digital Storytelling
in the Classroom. Corwin,
2008.
Richardson, Will. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powrful Web Tools for Classrooms
(2nd Ed.). Corwin, 2009.
Stephens, Liz Campbell & Kerry Ballast, Using Technology to Improve Adolescent Writing.
Pearson, 2011.
My name is Jennifer Whitley. I am from EDM 310 at University of South Alabama. I never realized how important having a PLN was until I started taking this class. I have come to the realization, as a future teacher, that without a PLN I would have to come up with every lesson plan myself with no help and hope my approach is good enough to engage the students. I am now building my PLN. I know I don't have all the answers and I can't be expected to have all of them but I do have all the resources I could even need at my finger tips. Why waste the technology? I would be doing myself and my students an injustice. I can learn from people that have been teaching for years.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment. Teachers/learners have been given a terrific resource with digital media and with any resource comes responsibility for stewardship, part of digital citizenship. I like to work at the edge of understanding, the edge of consciousness, like riding a spirited horse with the most subtle cues. A PLN offers a chance at a discourse community where the articulation of this fine edge can be elicited, a sort of listening into being. That's the kind of teaching-learning I love.
ReplyDelete