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DigitallyLiterate.net
As part of an open research project on teachers’ uses of technologies to teach literacies in their classrooms around the world, Heather Woods, Ian O’Byrne and I created the Teaching Literacies with Technology Survey. We posted it on our website, DigitallyLiterate.net last spring and have shared it out, inviting responses for about 5 months. Based…
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Using Speech Recognition Add On to Save on Transcription Time
I will be starting data collection for a new research study this week, and as I try to work out the nuts and bolts of my data management workflows, I discovered that I might save time on transcription by using the Speech Recognition Add On in Google Docs. The big upside here is that Speech Recognition is…
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La Chaire de Recherches WIGUP: Canada
Le lancement officiel de la Chaire de recherches WIGUP: Canada aura lieu demain matin au pavillon des diplômés Alex Trebek à l’Université d’Ottawa. Je suis la titulaire de la chaire, qui veut dire que j’aurai l’honneur de gérer 5 ans de recherches avec nos partenaires, le Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario et…
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Reading Instruction in a Time of Accountability: Multimodality and Physical Exercise Matter
Over the last few months, we’ve come to establish something of a round robin routine at dinner. I ask, “What were the highlights and lowlights from your day?” and then we go around the table, everyone sharing their ups and downs. Last week, our older daughter reported a lowlight that got me thinking, again, about…
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Summary of Digital Literacies Research 2004-2014
UPDATED December 5, 2014. With my colleague, Hiller Spires from NC State University, I’ve just finished a review of digital literacies research published in a set of 10 literacies and educational research journals between 2004 and September, 2014. This study will be presented next week at the Literacy Research Association conference in Marco Island, Florida.…
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Question: Advantages of reading/writing online vs. reading print and writing by hand?
Lately, I’ve been asked by several teacher colleagues for information that could help them understand the complexities of digital literacies, and by extension, digital literacies instruction. I’ve decided to begin posting my responses to my colleagues on my blog, in case there are others who could benefit from these thoughts. I also welcome input from…
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International Reading Association Pre-Conference Institute #IRA14
On Friday, May 9th, I’ll be presenting a round-table session as part of the Pre-Conference Institute entitled, Intentional Teaching with Technology to Increase Understanding, Empathy and Engagement. I’ll have thoughts to share about what I learn at the institute myself, but for now, I’m posting the resources that I have prepared for attendees at my…
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The Bridge Webinar Series: Games and Learning
This week, I had the pleasure to moderate a conversation among colleagues on the topic of Digital Games and Learning. Colin Gallagher, an alumnus of the Master’s of Educational Technology Program and Instructor in our Graduate Certificate in Educational Technology Program, Mete Akcaoglu, Assistant Professor at Western Virginia University and PhD Alumnus of the Educational…
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Queen’s University: Rosa Bruno-Jofré Workshop Presentations
Leigh Graves Wolf and I will be presenting our take on “Conquering the Online Presentation.” at the Rosa Bruno-Jofré Symposium in Education at Queens University. The slides from our presentation are linked below. One external source we referenced is the fantastic viral infographic from Lemonly explaining “How Not to Look Ugly on a Webcam” Here…
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Online, is stopping or going more important?
I’ve got another dissertation insight to share. As I’ve analyzed the thoughts that treatment participants shared in response to the questions and scaffolding that I provided during their “practice sessions,” I’m seeing that my questions, more than anything, provided space for them to stop, think and reflect. Whether this is a “good” thing in terms…