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Designing Writing and Technology Camps for Youth - 2007 Annual Meeting - Nati...

2007-11-04T15:16:29.192Z

B5 Designing Writing and Technology Camps for Youth

When: Friday, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Where: Marriott Marquis Times Square Hotel, 5th floor, Booth
Presenter(s):
John Bishop, Red Clay Writing Project
Valorie Stokes, Prairie Lands Writing Project

Presenters from two writing project sites will share ways their youth writing camps provide opportunities for teachers and students to explore intersections between technology and literacy. Each presenter will share strategies for designing camps that build from a central philosophy—camp facilitation embraces both youth learning and teacher professional development in the area of technology.

Valorie Stokes serves as the Professional Learning Communities Coordinator and Web Editor for Prairie Lands Writing Project (PLWP) and is part of the National Writing Project's Technology Initiative. During the summers of 2005 and 2006 she co-directed Middle School Youth Writing Camps for PLWP incorporating digital composing into the second summer camp session to help emphasize and reinforce to camp participants the choices, decision-making and risk-taking involved in any compositional process. Her experience with digital composing in the youth camp inspired PLWP to create a similar professional learning community experience on digital composing for TCs in the Fall of 2006. At various times during her 19-year career, she has taught high school publications, English and Latin courses. For the past two years she has served as a high school library-media specialist. Periodically, she also writes and reviews lessons for ReadWriteThink. She has keen interests in digital and media literacies and enjoys developing resources and lesson plans to help others explore various aspects of those literacies.

Bonnie Kaplan is the Co-Director and Technology Liaison with the Hudson Vall...

2007-11-06T03:24:36.773Z

Bonnie Kaplan is the Co-Director and Technology Liaison with the Hudson Valley Writing Project and for 30 years she taught high school English and Drama at Pearl River High School, New York. For the last three years she has moved on to a new life chapter and spends more time working with the HVWP and developing her digital passion and skills. She loves playing classical guitar to a audience of two loyal fans. She spends lots of time in dark movie theaters and traveling to exotic places. She shares everything on her blog: http://blk1.edublogs.org.

Teachers Teaching Teachers - National Writing Project's Annual Meeting | EdTe...

2007-11-04T15:47:09.686Z

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Timezone: US/Eastern

We are going to sandwich the National Writing Project's Annual Meeting
with two special Teachers Teaching Teachers webcasts, one before and
one after the Annual Meeting: Nov. 15–17,

We've invited Writing Project Technology Liaisons who are coming to
present in New York City to join us on November 7th and 28th to give us
both some prospect and some retrospect on this vital conference.

What brings us together each year? How are we using technology in
the National Writng Project? What are our questions as we plan our
workshops? What sorts of dialogue do we hope to have with participants in the Annual Meeting?

Joining us on this week's Teachers Teaching Teachers will be:

John Bishop,
Red Clay Writing Project
Clifford Lee,
Bay Area Writing Project
Bonnie Kaplan,
Hudson Valley Writing Project
Valorie Stokes,
Prairie Lands Writing Project
AND more!

If you are new to participating in a webcast, please take a look at Help for Newbies.

Join us at EdTechTalk at 9:00pm Eastern/6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesday, 01:00GMT Thursday World Clock Time

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2007-11-05T01:52:32.466Z

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Immigrant Voices - 2007 Annual Meeting - National Writing Project

2007-11-05T01:49:15.348Z

A1 Immigrant Voices

When: Friday, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Where: Marriott Marquis Times Square Hotel, 5th floor, Juilliard
Presenter(s):
Nelson Colón, Hudson Valley Writing Project
Bonnie Kaplan, Hudson Valley Writing Project
Judith Rance-Roney, Hudson Valley Writing Project
Carmen Vazqueztell, Newburgh EC School District
Martha Young, Hudson Valley Writing Project

Digital storytelling provides immigrant secondary students a meaningful voice—weaving pasts, presents, and futures. This session describes one such project, the composing process involved, and the partnership of classroom, school district, university, and the Hudson Valley Writing Project. Participants will have an opportunity to examine student work and discuss implications for teaching and learning.

Susan Ettenheim I am very interested in the presentations that will be takin...

2007-11-05T00:49:27.026Z

Susan Ettenheim
I am very interested in the presentations that will be taking place at the conference and look forward to hearing from the presenters about their plans and expectations. I wonder what they hope the attendees will be able to do after attending each presentation and what they think the attendees will need to know to accomplish these goals.

One question that I have faced in my classes is how to transition from a descriptive tour to a personal story. An example is here: Eleanor Roosevelt High School 9th Graders tell stories about their first experiences at a new school.

I am wondering about how to combine good online writing and web 2.0 tools with good storytelling. It isn't easy to look at your own life and find one curious or fun or compelling little story from a normal day. These students tried. They are good writers, smart students, lovely people, capable technology users. Now, how can I help them learn to tell a wonderful little story in a compelling way that invites discussion and sharing?

Kit Laybourne understood this many years ago. Do you know of his work with digital storytelling? I think his work is brilliant. The body of work called "Our Stories" remains a major inspiration in my life and work. I'm not sure if the actual stories are still available online. I must ask Kit. Here are some links:
Tell Me a (Digital) Story
(2000)
"Our Stories" - Executive Producer Kit Laybourne
•using the "Digital Storytelling" model that was surfacing on the internet, a small team writers, animators, editors and a producer undertook 30 collaborations with Oxygen viewers and sit visitors • Stuart Dworeck and Kimberly Mercado did the heavy lifting • work was mostly done in Flash animation featuring real life stories recounted in the first person.
Below the Digital Radar
(1998)

Designing Writing and Technology Camps for Youth - 2007 Annual Meeting - Nati...

2007-11-04T15:14:14.064Z

B5 Designing Writing and Technology Camps for Youth

Valorie and I will be sharing digital compositions created both by teachers during writing project summer institutes and by youth participating in our writing project summer camps for writing and technology. We'll highlight some philosophical connections between the two environments, particularly how summer institute opportunities to compose digitally led us to design summer workshops for youth to compose with digital tools. I'm excited about the chance to compare and contrast our two youth programs, from how we design curricula to how we strive to develop sustainable youth programs. We're also thinking together about how the youth summer camps have much potential to serve as professional learning communities for TCs to think together and explore new technologies with their students.

Examining the Purposes and Processes of Digital Storytelling - 2007 Annual Me...

2007-11-04T15:09:56.021Z

A5 Examining the Purposes and Processes of Digital Storytelling

When: Friday, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Where: Marriott Marquis Times Square Hotel, 5th floor, Booth
Presenter(s):
Danilo M Baylen, Cherokee Rose Writing Project
Melissa Brooks-Yip, Red Cedar Writing Project
Pen Campbell, Third Coast Writing Project
Jennifer Conrad, Third Coast Writing Project
Carrie Eade, Red Cedar Writing Project
Troy Hicks, Red Cedar Writing Project
Aram Kabodian, Red Cedar Writing Project
Clifford Lee, Bay Area Writing Project

Clifford Lee uses digital storytelling in his 11th grade Humanities block (U.S. History and American Literature) to teach his mostly English Language Learners to think critically about immigration and history, the nuances of writing and speaking for an authentic audience, the importance of revision and feedback through the recursive process of recording your voice and listening for adjustments, and the benefits in utilizing technology to complement writing as an alternative form of communication.

Writing project teachers and sites have engaged in digital storytelling for the past decade, and many of us have stories to tell about composing in this medium. Join this guided roundtable discussion where we will look at both individual and site work and then use reflective protocols to explore the many purposes and processes of digital storytelling as it is implemented in summer institutes and in professional development, continuity, and youth programs.

Getting Oriented - 2007 Annual Meeting - National Writing Project

2007-11-04T15:18:55.249Z

Getting Oriented to the Annual Meeting

Overview

Welcome to the National Writing Project Annual Meeting! Whether this will be your first Annual Meeting or you’ve attended before, we hope you will find what you are looking for as you participate in workshops, sessions, socials, and opportunities for informal networking with colleagues from around the country.

On these pages we offer some basic information about what you can expect at the meeting and give you some hints about planning ahead with others at your site to make the most of the meeting.

All are welcome at the meeting, which draws approximately 1,000 participants from NWP’s nearly 200 sites representing all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and associated international sites.

Even though sites attend the Annual Meeting for a variety of purposes, most say it is an opportunity to build site leadership, connect with each other, and get a bigger picture of the NWP network.

About the Annual Meeting

The NWP Annual Meeting is held yearly in conjunction with NCTE’s Annual Convention and is always the week before Thanksgiving. The yearly change of locale provides an opportunity for local sites to serve as host for the Annual Meeting when it is held in their city.

NWP provides regular and frequent information about the Annual Meeting online beginning in July of each year, so you can make lodging plans and begin planning travel as early as possible. Workshop registration opens in early September and additional information about the meeting is posted throughout the fall.

The NWP Annual Meeting is more like a large working meeting than it is a conference. This is the one time each year that all representatives from all NWP sites come together in one large gathering of the community that is the National Writing Project.

There is no registration fee for the NWP Annual Meeting. We encourage everyone to register for and attend sessions at the NCTE Annual Convention.

Here is a day-by-day snapshot of Annual Meeting activities.

Thursday, November 15

The Annual Meeting officially begins on Thursday with a series of workshops designed to support the development of NWP sites. These workshops focus on sites’ core work: the summer institute, inservice work, and continuity programs. Site development workshops are also coordinated by leaders of NWP special-focus networks, initiatives, and site leadership support programs to highlight and disseminate cross-site learning around topics of interest to site leaders and teachers.

These three-hour workshops give facilitators and participants the opportunity to take an in-depth look at site development and to share the work of their own site. Online registration opens the first week in September and closes the week before the meeting.

The meeting includes two evening socials where everyone is invited to relax, network, and talk informally. Plan to come to the social hosted by NWP’s Special Focus Networks on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. to join site leaders from around the country for light snacks and a no-host cocktail hour. Find out more about Thursday events.

Friday, November 16

You won’t want to miss the General Session on Friday morning. Together with colleagues from around the country we will honor the work we do together and, of course, spend some time writing together.

On Friday afternoon plan to choose from two rounds of breakout sessions with a wide range of topics. Even though session descriptions may indicate a suggested audience, everyone is invited to attend any session. There is no preregistration for the breakout sessions but you will want to begin exploring the descriptions before you come to the meeting. Session write-ups are available online: Round A and Round B.

Another early evening social—the gala NWP Social—is planned for Friday evening. Find out more about Friday events.

Saturday, November 17

On Saturday, as part of the NCTE conference, NWP sponsors a strand of workshops focused on teaching writing and led by NWP teacher-consultants. In the NCTE exhibit hall at the convention center you will also find an NWP booth. This booth is run by the host site and NWP staff.

Another Saturday highlight is the Writing Marathon, sponsored by the local host site, the New York City Writing Project. Participants in the marathon enjoy writing around the city.

Making the Most of the Annual Meeting

To see how other sites have approached the Annual Meeting and to begin planning your Annual Meeting, see the following:

Annual Meeting Survey

Be sure to take time to fill in the Annual Meeting online survey after the meeting is over. The Annual Meeting program planners use this survey to look at how the Annual Meeting is serving the needs of local sites.