Dan Callahan's picture
Posted 7/18/2015 7:53am
Dan Callahan
Professional Learning Specialist, Edcamper, Graduate Professor
Thanks, Rusul! I love your point that "Their writing is real writing because their writing is their voice." In my opinion, we're in an extraordinary time, because students are actually reading and writing more than ever before. It may not look like what we traditionally think of in terms of traditional writing, but it most certainly is.
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Rusul Alrubail's picture
Posted 7/29/2015 5:38pm
Rusul Alrubail
Editor & writer on teaching, learning, & education
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Thanks Katie! I LOVED Periscope when it first came out. I still appreciate it. There is something cooler than periscope called Beme, it's a video making app as well, but has great reviews. I haven't used it yet, I got the code and will be using soon :). If you're interested in Persicope my friend Sarah Thomas is passionate about using it in the classroom and wrote about it here: http://sarahdateechur.com/2015/05/07/student-privacy-on-periscopeedu/
Agree with you about the parent buy in! This also goes hand in hand with educating on privacy, online safety and copyright.
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Posted 7/29/2015 5:44pm
Rusul Alrubail
Editor & writer on teaching, learning, & education
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I agree Dan! I really like this perspective, that digital writing is a new genre and we have to approach it as such. Troy Hicks' book was very helpful when I did some of this research, Crafting Digital Writing, he looked at digital writing as mentor texts. I think often times it's hard for us to see a website, blog, or article as mentor text but that's what students and even us are reading and will continue to read.
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