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Please join us for a special National Writing Project Annual Meeting Teachers Teaching Teachers Webcast

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:10:11 GMT

If it’s November, it must be time for the National Writing Project’s Annual Meeting. In a couple of weeks many Writing Project teachers from across the United States (and some around the world) will be gathering in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for our annual conference.

In connection with the NWP Annual Meeting, you are invited to listen and interact with teachers across the globe during a special Teachers Teaching Teachers webcast sponsored by the Technology Initiative. There will also be a follow-up show after the Annual Meeting on December 2.

This event, co-hosted by the New York City Writing Project and the NWP Technology Liaisons Network, and broadcast live over the EdTechTalk network of the WorldBridges network, will feature:

Robert Rivera-Amezola, Philadelphia Writing Project http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/nwp_amsession/1584
Joe Conroy, NWP at Rutgers University Writing Project http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/nwp_amsession/1607
Chuck Jurich, High Desert Writing Project (New Mexico) http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/nwp_amsession/1608
Paul Oh, the coordinator of the technology liaison program for the National Writing Project http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/nwp_au/1102

As presenters of Annual Meeting sessions that focus on 21st century literacies, these writing project teachers and colleagues will share stories about the exploration of new composing practices, especially podcasting and video-making. Robert and Chuck teach 4th graders and Joe is a high school teacher. It should be an exciting, informative show.

How to Participate

Please join us at http://edtechtalk.com/live on Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 9–10 p.m. EST / 6–7 p.m. PST / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times

Teachers Teaching Teachers webcasts are live each Wednesday night, 9–10 p.m. EST / 6–7 p.m. PST.

Download instructions for listening and chatting during a live show (PDF).

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Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim

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Parent-Teacher-Student Conferences

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:30:24 GMT

A letter I wrote to my Principal, AP, and Department Head:I wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know how important and useful the conferences were this time around.

All of my students’ finished work is accessible in their blogs at http://youthvoices.net/ewsis. (Just scroll down on the left side to find classes and names.) Parents were delighted to know that they could see the work and talk about it with their students, and that they would be able to continue to track progress. One mother told me that teachers had told her that her daughter was a good writer, and she was happy to be able to see it now.

I was also able to make clear my expectations, using our “Power Users’ Weekly Assignments.” I explained how students use this form to self-monitor. I also admitted that it is pretty dense, which is why I’ve been preparing a more clear, day-by-day guide for the last few weeks for students: http://docs.google.com/View?id=ah5m9qjtkbwf_78fgq3pgdt I also showed parents how their students are are getting feedback from me: http://youthvoices.net/node/24518/revisions/view/26402/26703In addition, because one part of our curriculum is structured around an independent reading project, I had rich, thought-provoking discussions with my students and their parents about the books they are reading and writing about — and what they might read next. Many have already finished 2 or 3 books this semester.

I ended each conference by exploring with students what each of them are really good at or passionate about. Each student has an on-going inquiry question that we are going to do research into this semester. I delighted in the young woman who said, “I’m a good listener, and I want to study psychology.” And in the students who I found post a new drawing on http://deviantArt.com frequently. And the young man who does animation on his own at home. I also enjoyed questions like, “Is the supernatural real?” and “Where is it most likely for war to break out next?” and “Why are people so judgmental, even Christians?” Only three parents were there without students, and this made all the difference.

I think a positive, informative time was had by all who came into my room. I know I learned a lot!

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News from Youth Voices on Teachers Teaching Teachers this Wednesday, Oct. 28 - 9:PM Eastern / 6:PM Pacific

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:32:36 GMT

We would like to invite you to join us on Teachers Teaching Teachers — a live webcast that you can join with Skype — this Wednesday, October 28, 9:00 PM

Perhaps you are one of the educators who have registered as a teacher at http://youthvoices.net , but — for whatever reason — you haven’t brought your students in yet. Or perhaps you’re almost ready to have your students join ours. We’d like to talk with you about what your plans are for using the site — or how it is going so far. We are doing a special Teachers Teaching Teachers webcast this week, focused on introducing Youth Voices to teachers who want to know more about the site… who want to be involved more in our community.

The New/Current discussions on http://youthvoices.net/site-blog and the What’s up? posts: http://youthvoices.net/whatsup/all are more exciting than ever, and they include students from 6th -12th grades on a regular basis. We’d love to include your students as well. Please plan to join us via Skype this Wednesday to discuss the possibilities - or listen in at http://edtechtalk.com/live

Join us at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times

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More about EBSCO and Diigo (and BrainyFlix) on Wednesday's Teachers Teaching Teachers 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:42:22 GMT

After 3 carefully planned, well-produced episodes, guest-hosted by Troy Hicks, we return with a bit of productive chaos this week on Teachers Teaching Teachers.We invited Maggie Tsai from Diigo, and even if she can’t make it we’ll be talking about the new Diigo V4.0, and how Diigo is working out with our students.

Ron Burns from EBSCO will also join us. We’d like to continue the conversation about using databases for research, how to share research using Diigo and how to incorporate the EBSCO resources into these goals! Being big EBSCO fans, we always welcome any chance to learn more about upcoming changes and how to better use EBSCO.Joyce Valenza will also try to join us, since she started us on this question of how to use a social bookmarking site like Diigo with a library database like EBSCO.

Joining in will be Jack Yu who creates his own brand of meaningful fun at BrainyFlix. Maybe there will be just enough serendipity for you to join us via Skype this week on Teachers Teaching Teachers. Just let Susan know in the chat room.

Join us at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times

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More about EBSCO and Diigo (and BrainyFlix) on Wednesday's Teachers Teaching Teachers 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:42:22 GMT

Join us at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times

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Troy Hicks and the Digital Writing Workshop (3rd in a series) on TTT tomorrow (Wed. 10.14.09) 9:PM Eastern / 6:PM Pacific

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:21:36 GMT

In this final episode of our three part series, please join Troy Hicks, author of The Digital Writing Workshop, and Director of the Chippewa River Writing Project at Central Michigan University, as we continue exploring the principles and practices described in the book.

For this third episode, we welcome three teachers to the conversation as they discuss how they teach students to craft their writing through conferring and response:

Melissa Pomerantz of Parkway North High School in St. Louis, Missouri, will describe how she uses audio feedback to respond to students through virtual conferences.
Heather Lewis of Waverly Middle School in Lansing, Michigan, will discuss how she guides students through the revision process with Google Docs.
Joe Belino, a teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages at Montgomery County Public Schools in Gaithersburg, Maryland, will discuss the ways in which his students offer response to one another through the use of Google Docs.

As this series concludes, we invite all listeners to continue the conversation by joining the Digital Writing Workshop Ning and follow us on Twitter. We would invite you to join us on Wednesday at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times

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Troy Hicks and the Digital Writing Workshop (3rd in a series) on TTT tomorrow (Wed. 10.14.09) 9:PM Eastern / 6:PM Pacific

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:21:36 GMT

For this third episode, we welcome three teachers to the conversation as they discuss how they teach students to craft their writing through conferring and response:

Melissa Pomerantz of Parkway North High School in St. Louis, Missouri, will describe how she uses audio feedback to respond to students through virtual conferences.
Heather Lewis of Waverly Middle School in Lansing, Michigan, will discuss how she guides students through the revision process with Google Docs.
Joe Belino, a teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages at Montgomery County Public Schools in Gaithersburg, Maryland, will discuss the ways in which his students offer response to one another through the use of Google Docs.

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Video

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:17:46 GMT

Video

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:17:46 GMT

On Tomorrow's Teachers Teaching Teachers: Troy Hicks and "Exploring Author's Craft in the Digital Writing Workshop"

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:41:23 GMT

In this second episode of our three part series, please join Troy Hicks, author of The Digital Writing Workshop, and Director of the Chippewa River Writing Project at Central Michigan University, as we continue a three-part series exploring the principles and practices described in the book. For this second episode, we welcome four Michigan teachers to the conversation as they discuss how they teach the craft of digital writing:

Dawn Reed of Okemos High School will discuss how students craft audio essays in the form of podcasts
Aram Kabodian of MacDonald Middle School will share his insights on the process of composing digital stories and public service announcements
Sharon Murchie of Bath High School will describe how she guides her students through the research process for creating multimedia senior projects
Shannon Powell of Central Montcalm Middle School in Michigan will discuss her experiences as a new teacher as she has begun to use digital writing in her classroom, including her recent integration of “SSR with RSS” for a class of reluctant readers

Finally, on October 14th, we will discuss the process of conferring and response to student writers as they create digital texts.

We would invite you to join us on Wednesday at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times
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On Tomorrow's Teachers Teaching Teachers: Troy Hicks and "Exploring Author's Craft in the Digital Writing Workshop"

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:41:23 GMT

Dawn Reed of Okemos High School will discuss how students craft audio essays in the form of podcasts
Aram Kabodian of MacDonald Middle School will share his insights on the process of composing digital stories and public service announcements
Sharon Murchie of Bath High School will describe how she guides her students through the research process for creating multimedia senior projects
Shannon Powell of Central Montcalm Middle School in Michigan will discuss her experiences as a new teacher as she has begun to use digital writing in her classroom, including her recent integration of “SSR with RSS” for a class of reluctant readers

Finally, on October 14th, we will discuss the process of conferring and response to student writers as they create digital texts.

We would invite you to join us on Wednesday at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times
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Teachers Teaching Teachers: Choice and Inquiry in the Digital Writing Workshop September 30, 2009 9 PM Eastern / 6 PM Pacific

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:47:33 GMT

This week, please join Troy Hicks, author of the new Heinemann title, The Digital Writing Workshop, and Director of the Chippewa River Writing Project at Central Michigan University, as we begin a three-part series exploring the principles and practices described in the book. For this first episode, we welcome four teachers to the conversation as they discuss how they foster student choice and inquiry in their writing classrooms:

Penny Kittle, Kennett High School in New Hampshire will offer perspectives on writing workshop principles and why we need to begin to focus on digital writing
Sara Beauchamp-Hicks, formerly of Negaunee High School in Michigan will discuss her use of wikis and Google Docs to spur student inquiry
Chris Sloan of Judge Memorial High School in Salt Lake City will share insights on how students can make choices with RSS readers and blogging
Shannon Powell of Central Montcalm Middle School in Michigan will discuss her experiences as a new teacher as she has begun to use digital writing in her classroom, including her recent integration of “SSR with RSS” for a class of reluctant readers

Then, on October 7th we will explore the idea of “author’s craft” as it relates to creating digital texts and, on October 14th, discuss the process of conferring and response to student writers as they create digital texts. We would invite you to join us on Wednesday at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times

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Teachers Teaching Teachers: Choice and Inquiry in the Digital Writing Workshop September 30, 2009 9 PM Eastern / 6 PM Pacific

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:47:33 GMT

Penny Kittle, Kennett High School in New Hampshire will offer perspectives on writing workshop principles and why we need to begin to focus on digital writing
Sara Beauchamp-Hicks, formerly of Negaunee High School in Michigan will discuss her use of wikis and Google Docs to spur student inquiry
Chris Sloan of Judge Memorial High School in Salt Lake City will share insights on how students can make choices with RSS readers and blogging
Shannon Powell of Central Montcalm Middle School in Michigan will discuss her experiences as a new teacher as she has begun to use digital writing in her classroom, including her recent integration of “SSR with RSS” for a class of reluctant readers

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Open Mic

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:52:45 GMT

Here’s a few links to video and and mp3’s for the Open Mic sponsored by the Pied Piper Children’s Theater of New York City on September 26, 2009. It was lots of fun.All of Open Mic on audio:

To play mp3s in your browser, you will need to have Javascript turned on and have Flash Player 9 or better installed.

All of Open Mic on Video (in 3 parts):

Ben

on YouTube:
on Veoh: http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/family/watch/v19135572GN4SRhSB

Sam and Lee

on YouTube:
on Veoh: http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/family/watch/v191356093hCt72dW

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Open Mic

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:52:45 GMT

Here’s a few links to video and and mp3’s for the Open Mic sponsored by the Pied Piper Children’s Theater of New York City on September 26, 2009. It was lots of fun.All of Open Mic on audio:

To play mp3s in your browser, you will need to have Javascript turned on and have Flash Player 9 or better installed.

All of Open Mic on Video (in 3 parts):

Ben

on YouTube:
on Veoh: http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/family/watch/v19135572GN4SRhSB

Sam and Lee

on YouTube:
on Veoh: http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/family/watch/v191356093hCt72dW

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More about diigo, annotations and on-line, ongoing research on Teachers Teaching Teachers - Wednesday, September 23, 9 PM Eastern / 6 PM Pacific

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:44:14 GMT

Chief Diigo Ambassador, Maggie Tsai will be joining us Wednesday evening (tomorrow).About a month ago, we had a lively conversation about research and diigo: Teachers Teaching Teachers #165 - 08.26.09 - Meet Lisa Dick and George Haines: Talking about research and diigo.

Now that some of the teachers who use Youth Voices have begun to use Diigo, we want to get together to talk about how it is going, and what our plans with students are with this bookmarking site. Please join us. Come talk about how you build your students’ research muscles, and how you use diigo.

Join us at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times

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More about diigo, annotations and on-line, ongoing research on Teachers Teaching Teachers - Wednesday, September 23, 9 PM Ea...

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:44:14 GMT

Join us at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times

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Video

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:25:02 GMT

Sanda Htyte, WNYC Radio Rookies producer will join us on Teachers Teaching Teachers, Wed. Sept. 16, 9 PM Eastern / 6 PM Paci...

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:41:33 GMT

Teachers whose students post at Youth Voices are pretty excited about the “Mapping Main Street” collaborative project.

“Mapping Main Street is a collaborative documentary media project that creates a new map of the country through stories, photos and videos recorded on actual Main Streets. We invite you to capture the stories and images of the country today. Use our Main Street map to find streets named Main close to your home or along the paths of your own travels. Go out, look around, talk to people, and contribute to this re-mapping of the United States.”
Mapping Main Street» About

Please join us at EdTechTalk this Wednesday, September 16 at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific, to learn more about how we are working “Mapping Main Street into our curriculum. Also come to learn more about a wonderful youth development program, Radio Rookies and their Short Wave workshop, where “producers train students the basics of reporting, interviewing, and script writing, and in 1.5 months they produce a final story for the Radio Rookies web site.”Join our conversation with Sanda Htyte.

Sanda Htyte is Radio Rookies Associate Producer. She has been with Radio Rookies since interning at the Elmhurst workshop in summer of 2005. She is also a freelance video producer, director, editor and a CUNY Professor. While interning at Radio Rookies, Sanda was completing her MFA in documentary producing. Having studied both video and radio production at her Alma Mata, Brooklyn College, CUNY, she was asked to teach introduction to radio production as Adjunct Professor in Fall of 2006 as well as Spring 2007.

A couple of years ago Woody Woodgate, up in Alaska helped shape our curriculum toward place-based projects. His work with the students at the Marshall School was an inspiration. He helped amplify the voices of the young people in his classes so that all of us on the Youth Voices network could hear and respond! Some of our other guests will be a colleague of Woody’s from Alaska, Diane (Ginger) Crockett, and Chris Sloan will be joining us from Salt Lake City Utah. (Check out his students’ work on the Mapping Main Street site.)

We would love to make similar connections with your students this year. Specifically, in the next couple of months, we are looking at braiding some or our “place-based” photography, stories, VoiceThreads, videos, podcasts… with the NPR-connected project, “Mapping Main Street.”

It just seems to us like this could be an excellent opportunity for students to show off their home towns, their cultures, their stories — and to see what is similar and different from other youths’ Main Streets. We would love it if you could spare the time to join us on Wednesday at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times

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Bridgetalks 09.09.09 | Bridgetalks | Veoh

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:05:13 GMT

Bridgetalks 09.09.09 | Bridgetalks | Veoh

Bridgetalks1-02.25.09

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:22:33 GMT

Here's "the grid": Participating in Youth Voices (One Week of Assignments)

Curriculum and "How To" Guides

EWSIS students paired with seniors at a Self-Help Center in an OATS class

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:49:31 GMT

Comparing two online publishing projects - Nov 2, 2008

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:42:27 GMT

This fall two projects in which students publish online have been supported by the National Writing Project. http://letters2president.org and http:youthvoices.net I think comparing these two in terms of development, adoption, collaboration, purpose, design, capacity-building, clarity, student-sponsored-ness ... and other things would be a useful piece of research.

Reading = Annotating, Dialectical Notes, Responding, Blogging

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:00:31 GMT

I recently introduced doing annotations as one of a four-part response to a text.
1) Annotations - asking students to write down, draw… in any language… anything that comes into their heads as they are reading
2) Dialectical Notes - I asked students to re-read the text, and as they were reading, to find 6 to 8 chunks of text that they thought were important to the text. With these they did “quotations” and “responses” — which I described as extended freewriting beginning with and annotation.

Gardens Near EWSIS

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:05:03 GMT

10 Graders Introducing Campaign Issues

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:59:08 GMT

Online Videos by Veoh.com

Introducing Campaign Issues

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:36:53 GMT

Online Videos by Veoh.com This was our first lesson in a unit about the U.S. Elections. We will be Writing Letters to the Next President using Google Docs.

Planning Youth Voices August 2, 2008

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:41:32 GMT

After some quiet thinking and imagining, I try to record some thoughts about how we might organize our new Drupal site for Youth Voices.

Remembering Lee Baber August 1, 2008

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:09:19 GMT

One story and a few reflections about Lee Baber, our friend at Teachers Teaching Teachers, EdTechTalk, WorldBridges... SpaceCasts, YouthBridges... We will miss Lee. She passed away on July 31, 2008.

Google Alerts & Limits July 26, 2008

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:55:32 GMT

I reflect on how I might have some students use Google Alerts instead of having them subscribe to Google Reader. I also complain about how limited Google Apps is.

Reflecting on VoiceTread

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:03:35 GMT

(35:55) Teachers in the New York City Writing Project's Open/Advanced Technology Institute at Lehman College reflect after 4 days of working with VoiceThread.

Overlapping Curriculum Circles

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:23:44 GMT

(11 min. 06 secs.) Some thoughts about planning for the fall while running on a road in Upstate New York.

Reponse to Health Nuts March 20, 2008

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:23:00 GMT

At Tech Thursdays, a group of New York City Writing Project teachers responded to a podcast recorded by Madeline Brownstone's students at the Baccalaureate School for Global Education. Their podcast was called "Health Nuts." and they asked how one finds reliability in a podcast.

Room 204 Weekend Checkin- March 17, 2008

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:49:57 GMT

(3:19) Five 6th Graders check in on their weekend on St. Patrick's Day.

Room 204 - Friday, March 14, 2008

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:31:20 GMT

(2:53) When the Internet went down, my sixth graders took a break from writing hypertext poems. We gathered around my iPod, and recorded this go-round in which students were asked to talk about something they did during the week that made them feel good about themselves or something they were planning to do on the weekend. This sharing of stories was, by now, a pretty common thing for us to do in this class.

Feb 2, 2008 Thinking about Micro-blogging in the Classroom

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:22:38 GMT

I'm excited about a new site that I set up this week at http://youthtwitter.com and I talk about some of the implications of that here.

8th Graders Spacecast at ESCHS

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:11:30 GMT

A few students from my New Journalism class at East Side Community High School in New York City talk about their blogs and read blog posts while connected with a couple of students from Lee Baber's class in Virginia. Lee webcasts live for us every Friday morning over through WorldBridges. And these conversations are available as a podcast. Look for Spacecast on iTunes.

Joomla and Goolge Apps (2 of 2)

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:00:25 GMT

Ride with me on Manhattan's Upper West Side, as I discss using a group of Google Apps instead of the current website at my school.

Joomla and Goolge Apps (1 of 2)

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:59:15 GMT

Ride with me on the West Side of Manhattan after school on day in March 2007. I discuss setting up an interactive website with Joomla for the New York City Writing Project

From Technical Education to Communication

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:13:43 GMT

Run with me as from Upper-Manhattan into Riverdale in the Bronx, and listen as I "go on" about a few different curriculum queries that have been bouncing around in my head. What I think underlies all fo the examples that a mention here is the notion that writing and multimedia production should be taught as communication and not as a technical skill.

On a gray day in January

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:23:34 GMT

The semester is winding down. Students are focused on final projects in their core courses, and preparing for state examinations. Blogging is feels harder and harder to care about. Still these young people seem to have enough sense of personal commitment to YouthVoices.net and their personal blog to put forward some effort.

Ryan sings Come Again, Sweet Love - J. Dowland

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:42:19 GMT

Rey-Rey's Music Studio Recital, Saturday, December 16, 2006.

The Theater Space at Holy Trinity Church

12th, 11th, 10th Graders Blog at East Side Community HS, NYC

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:44:25 GMT

We are in the last 5 or 6 weeks of the semester, and I'm having a great time with most of my 10th - 12th graders. A couple of stories that stand out: Cailin's abilitiy to see connections between a journal-entry-like blog post and an essay she is writing for English class... Nichole's amazing blog by now... John's podcasting habits... and more!

9th Graders Blog at East Side Community HS, NYC

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:50:09 GMT

We are in the last 5 or 6 weeks of the semester, and I'm having a great time with most of my 9th graders. They have developed good habits of mind and work, and I'm just their consultant. Christy's story of her relationship with Flickr continues to blossom. She set up a group in Flickr. I'm also interested to see Jose and Zadia move beyond their comfortable subjects. Blogging is a n interesting process to watch!

Students Blogging with Self-Selected Content

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:05:00 GMT

It may not be overly dramatic, but I'm enjoying these moments in my classroom, when I can go around and interview students, simply asking them, "What are you doing?" This was recorded on a Monday at the beginning of a regular week -- when there are no planned vacations or breaks... just four straight days of blogging. What I'm finding exciting this year is the ways I've found to allow students to find their own subject matter around which to read, write, find images, and listen to and create podcasts.

Nashville Reflections: Tech at the National Writing Project

allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison) — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:06:39 GMT

This is a bit of a rant. I want to find ways for Writing Project teachers to be constructively critical of our work, not just celebratory.