Feb. 1 is Digital Learning Day, a day meant to call attention to the powerful work going on in the many districts, classrooms and writing project sites where educators are making thoughtful use of the potential of digital tools.
The NWP is a partner organization in this effort, which is being led by the Alliance for Excellent Education.
We'd love to hear what you're planning to do for Digital Learning Day! Please feel free to post your classroom- or site-based activities here in this discussion forum, blog about it here at Connect or at your own blog, and tweet out links to any posts, videos, podcasts or other artifacts that capture the Digital Learning Day work by you, your colleagues, and your students.
And make sure, when you tweet, to use the hashtags #DLDay and #NWP!
For more information, check out this press release at the NWP.org website. And stay tuned for more info about events like a NWP Radio program later this month that will focus on digital writing!
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Looking forward to this! I plan on participating and I know CRWP and its colleagues are working on how we can be a part of this wonderful day.
Blogging! And you are welcome to join in the fun.
Read more about the Blog Carnival at NWP Digital Is in celebration of digital learning and literacy... come participate by commenting, sharing or adding your own blog post too!
Jayne Marlink discusses Digital Learning Day and what the California Writing Project will be doing on Feb. 1 during a recent webinar hosted by the Alliance for Excellent Education. Check out the archived conversation here.
Posted on Digital Is in preparation for Digital Learning Day bit.ly/zeUF84#nwp #dlday
As part of Digital Learning Day, the NWP is partnering with our good friends at Figment and the NYT Learning Network to make visible resources from the Times archives and the digital work of young writers at Figment.
Check out Figment's Digital Learning Day page and look for young authors to tweet out their work using the #dlday hashtag on Twitter!
Upstate Writing Project plans to blog about what we're doing on our new UWP Connect site.
You can see what we're posting at http://connect.nwp.org/upstate-writing-project.
Fantastic, Leigh! Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to reading the Upstate posts.
-Paul
Does anyone know of a good website that displays famous pieces of art for students to view?
Hi Aja,
I believe many of the larger art museums have at least portions of their collections online. For instance, you can browse art at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. I'll bet a web search for specific museums would yield similar searchable collections.
I'm curious - what are you thinking you'll be doing with your students and art that's viewable online?
-Paul
Hi everyone,
Here in Michigan we've tapped our good friends over at Michigan State's MA in Ed Tech program to help us celebrate Digital Learning Day. We are inviting anyone and everyone in our community (both geographical and in our social media networks) to "try something new" and submit their experiences and challenges on our website. For more information, here is our introductory post about what it is we are doing:
My personal participation will be to dedicate a day to documenting all of my own digital learning (and teaching) for one day: "A Day in the Life of a Digital Learner." I'll be collecting artifacts and blogging about the experience. I'll be sure to link to it from this space and it will be linked on the http://dlday2012.tumblr.com as well. I love reading about all the great ideas from everyone: I can't wait!
Here is a link to my blogpost for today discussing Digital learning day!
http://writinginmyhand.org/?p=386
What a fun idea! Recently, I have added Emodo to my plate. My school district is really supporting it, and I thought I would give it a try. It caught on like wildfire in my class. Up until now, I have just made it optional and I have not required any assignments. In honor of Digital Learning Day, I am going to 'get serious' about using Edmodo and see how it affects the learning.
Wonderful, Amy! Let us know what you discover!
-Paul
Check out last night's recording of Teacher's Teaching Teachers, with Paul Allison, Andrea Zellner, Jack Zangerle, Natalie Bernasconi, Tom Fox, Leigh Graves, Chris Sloan and Matt Dunleavy as they discussed their work and plans - in the classroom and out - for Digital Learning Day.
My developmental compositon class meets in a computer lab on Wednesdays, and this week we'll be kciking off our group wiki project--a research project where the final product is a wiki instead of an essay.
Folks from Redwood Writing Project will also be traveling to Sacramento to take part in the CWP network celebration of Digital Learning Day. Check out the blog post I wrote, describing the work we've been doing as a partnership with the Teaching American History Project: http://www.all4ed.org/blog/beyond_digital_curtain_bringing_technology_cl...
If you're in the Sacramento area, stop by and see Marsha and two of her students in person!
Sue, your blog has some great stuff there. Why not add it to the Digital Is blog collection? It would make a good resource.
In our district, we have an Intranet Facebook-style server called My Big Campus. My students have just finished research outlines based on selected 1980s topics (from the Exxon Valdez to Michael Jackson's Thriller). Their ultimate task is to create an interactive feature article based on their research.
I have posted a variety of past examples to My Big Campus. Tomorrow, my students will be in a lab looking at those past examples and making noticings. Soon, they'll start crafting their own feature articles, which will eventually be posted to My Big Campus for others to read and for me to grade.
Had a great time doing a Twitter chat with my pre-service students on Wednesday. I blogged about it here.