Reflecting upon a Semester of Blogging
Hello! So this is the end of the semester! During the past week, we read about fair use and copyright in the digital media world–a topic about which I had […]
Hello! So this is the end of the semester! During the past week, we read about fair use and copyright in the digital media world–a topic about which I had […]
I got tired of waiting for Spring, so I brought it to the library! Above are the pictures of my board (with hand-made flowers), and below are some of the […]
I have made my first infographic! I’ve always wanted to do this, and now I’m happy to know how. I created this Citation Styles infographic on piktochart.com, and it was […]
https://research.usc.edu/usc-symposium-on-digital-media-research-education-and-innovation/ Although I’m only twenty-two years old, digital compositions are more complex (and more amazing and accessible) than when I was going through grade school. Now, there are simple and […]
For the past two weeks, my CURRINS 547 class has participated in an online role play debate about whether or not cursive should be taught in schools. We each had […]
During this semester in my CURRINS 547 class, wee are tutoring high school students with their papers via email and the collaborative word processor, Google Docs. I already have some […]
For this week, we have read “Responding to Student Writing” by Nancy Sommers (NCTE, 1982), and chapter three from The Digital Writing Workshop (Hicks, 2009) entitled “Conferring through Blogs, Wikis, […]
A friend of mine brought this online entry to my attention and asked my opinion: http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/education-2/middle-school-reading-lists-100-years-ago-vs-today-show-how-far-american-educational-standards-have-declined (This is the original post this author was responding to: Middle School Reading Lists […]
For this week’s reading’s in CURRINS 547, we’ve read Jenkins’ (2006) section from “Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century” entitled “Negotiation” and a chapter […]