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Tuesday's tweet highlights for Digital Learning Day Added by Kathleen Riley on Jan 31, 2012 at 3:48pm [View the story "Everybody's talking about #dlday!" on Storify] ... read more	393 Views	0 comments	No comments have been added yet.
"Digital Writing Matters" on NWP Radio Added by Paul Oh on Jan 30, 2012 at 5:47pm If you missed last week's NWP Radio episode on Digital Writing, make sure to listen to the archive of the broadcast (below). ... read more	696 Views	0 comments	No comments have been added yet.
Monday's tweets highlight for Digital Learning Day Added by Kathleen Riley on Jan 30, 2012 at 3:52pm [View the story "Are you wondering how you can participate in Digital Lea... read more	321 Views	0 comments	No comments have been added yet.
Digital Tool Review: Cel.ly in the 8th grade classroom Added by Brian Kelley on Jan 28, 2012 at 8:11am My 8th students and I gave cel.ly a try this week--essentially cel.ly is a website that enables an individual to create a "cell" for conversation... read more	532 Views	1 comment	Added by Elyse Eidman-Aadahl on Jan 29, 2012 at 5:47pm Jeremy Hyler is working with cel.ly this year and posting about it in Digital Is. He talked about it on last week's NWP Radio. You two should d... read more
Friday's tweet highlights for Digital Learning Day Added by Kathleen Riley on Jan 27, 2012 at 3:54pm [View the story "Digital Learning Day and the NWP" on Storify] ... read more	313 Views	0 comments	No comments have been added yet.
Digital Learning Day Added by Sharon J. Washington on Jan 27, 2012 at 12:06pm Writing in a digital environment is something that students today do not even think twice about … from texting to tweeting to blogging and posting ... read more	539 Views	0 comments	No comments have been added yet.
Fourth Grade Makers: Commercials and Superbowl Snacks Added by Linda Azeez on Jan 26, 2012 at 8:22pm It has been a busy month at Willard South Elementary. The fourth graders have been researching cookbooks and websites to find the perfect Super... read more	422 Views	2 comments	Added by Tanya Baker on Jan 30, 2012 at 3:57pm Linda, This is too much fun and a perfect example of taking advantage of a golden popular culture opportunity! I know I should vote for something he... read more
Sending Aunt Ida Mobley Off In Style Added by Jennifer McCully-Mobley on Jan 26, 2012 at 3:40pm My dual credit English students have been working on their Aunt Ida projects the past few weeks. Aunt Ida is 96 and has died. She owned a home called... read more	423 Views	1 comment	Added by Elyse Eidman-Aadahl on Jan 29, 2012 at 5:58pm This is so cool -- you'll post online, right? ... read more
The Great American Teach-Off: A Search for America's Most Innovative Teachers Added by Tanya Baker on Jan 24, 2012 at 2:38pm This came to my inbox today. I'll be sad if National Writing Project Teachers don't dominate. Nominate yourself. Nominate your writing project collea... read more	300 Views	0 comments	No comments have been added yet.
Judges Need to Score Work for Scholastic Writing Awards Added by Tanya Baker on Jan 14, 2012 at 5:02pm CALLING NWP DIRECTORS, TEACHER CONSULTANTS & SUPPORTERS OF TEEN WRITERS! THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS & WRITERS SEEKS JUDGES TO SCOR... read more	456 Views	1 comment	Added by Tanya Baker on Jan 23, 2012 at 3:22pm Thanks to everyone who contacted The Alliance about this opportunity. As is often the case, the NWP network overwhelmed our partners with more suppor... read more
Digital Is Bloggers celebrate digital learning and literacy! Added by Christina Cantrill on Jan 13, 2012 at 1:11pm Dear colleagues, ... read more	484 Views	2 comments	Added by Paul Oh on Jan 24, 2012 at 10:20am Great, Bonnie! Care to share the URL? -Paul ... read more
Mentor Texts and the Digital Writing Workshop Added by Kevin Hodgson on Jan 13, 2012 at 7:08am ... read more	313 Views	0 comments	No comments have been added yet.
Book Review: Building the English Classroom Added by Kevin Hodgson on Jan 4, 2012 at 2:52pm (reposted from my blog) ... read more	341 Views	0 comments	No comments have been added yet.
In-service Development Retreat Added by Leigh Unterspan on Jan 3, 2012 at 7:45pm The Upstate Writing Project would like to invite your site to join us in an In-service Development Retreat to bring together site leaders to examine... read more	499 Views	1 comment	Added by Joye Alberts on Jan 4, 2012 at 9:12am This sounds like a fabulous opportunity for sites to get together to think together about inservice programs that can serve the needs of teachers and... read more
Book Review: The History of the World in Six Glasses Added by Brian Kelley on Jan 1, 2012 at 6:19am Beer. Wine. Liquor. Tea. Coffee. Coca-Cola. In six individual essays, author Tom Standage explores the impac... read more	435 Views	0 comments	No comments have been added yet.
YA Book Review: The Running Dream Added by Brian Kelley on Dec 27, 2011 at 8:14am Positive. Uplifting. Inspirational. ... read more	637 Views	0 comments	No comments have been added yet.
YA Book Review: Hold Still Added by Brian Kelley on Dec 26, 2011 at 7:45am Recently, I bought the entire collection of novels from Penguin's publishing wing entitled "Point of View" --these are novels dealing head-on with to... read more	369 Views	0 comments	No comments have been added yet.
YA Book Review: Thirteen Reasons Why Added by Brian Kelley on Dec 25, 2011 at 8:47am Jay Asher's YA novel, Thirteen Reasons Why, provides an opportunity to open the discussion of suicide, with ourselves...our friends...our familie... read more	705 Views	0 comments	No comments have been added yet.
Framing Literature Accordingly Added by Brian Kelley on Dec 23, 2011 at 6:21am Would many have thought in the 1590s that William Shakespeare would be read and taught 500 years later? Hard to say. Do video game progra... read more	310 Views	0 comments	No comments have been added yet.
Immersion with a Twist of Skype Added by Brian Kelley on Dec 22, 2011 at 8:14am Yesterday my 3rd period class experienced a Skype chat with literary agent, Victoria Marini of the Gelfman Schneider literary agency in New York ... read more	380 Views	1 comment	Added by Elyse Eidman-Aadahl on Dec 22, 2011 at 9:15am Thank you for sharing this experience -- and the great advice you got -- from your skype session. ... read more
I Think Therefore I Revise Added by Brian Kelley on Dec 20, 2011 at 5:25am Through an author chat on Skype, YA author Irene Latham helped reinforce our ongoing conversations and lessons on revision. Especially for ... read more	645 Views	0 comments	No comments have been added yet.
The Lens of Strong Nouns and Verbs Added by Brian Kelley on Dec 19, 2011 at 5:43am My 8th grade creative writing classes are studying the use of strong nouns and verbs, and I asked YA author Mitali Perkins to build our recent au... read more	1,085 Views	0 comments	No comments have been added yet.
Liking and Hating Have No Home Added by Brian Kelley on Dec 18, 2011 at 6:14am After reading Kelly Gallagher's Readicide this week, a metaphor of shopping for a house has been working itself out in my head. I wondered how ... read more	331 Views	1 comment	Added by Elyse Eidman-Aadahl on Dec 19, 2011 at 8:48am Thanks for the thoughtful post. Did you have a chance to see Kelly's keynote at last year's spring meeting, either in person or on video? ... read more
Development of an Idea: from NWP Conference, to Camp, to Classroom Added by Kevin Hodgson on Dec 17, 2011 at 8:03am (This is reposted from my blog) ... read more	302 Views	1 comment	Added by Elyse Eidman-Aadahl on Dec 19, 2011 at 8:41am Hi Kevin, ... read more
Louder Than a Bomb Added by Sharon J. Washington on Dec 16, 2011 at 1:03pm This week, I went to the screening of the documentary Louder than a Bomb, about a high school poetry slam and was blown away by the quality of the st... read more	439 Views	0 comments	No comments have been added yet.