Exploring Digital Literacy in English Education
Despite my extensive prior experience with blogs, I still found professional blogging as a pre-service teacher a challenge. Throughout the course of this semester, I have primarily struggled with finding an appropriate tone and voice for my writing, often erring on the side of sounding too academic and impersonal. In response to this tendency of …
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As I was brainstorming my experimental multi-modal piece, I stumbled across an iPhone app, Clips, that allows the user to splice short clips of video together in real time. I’d been inspired by hand-drawn videos like this, so I was excited to find a quick-and-easy route to achieving a roughly similar result. Although the app …
I’ve had relatively sparse experience with creating multimodal texts; while I had a few memorable “video projects” in middle and high school, the only adult experience I’ve had creating multimodal texts has been creating a series of fundraising videos for a local nonprofit. That said, I am an avid consumer of multimodal texts–namely, YouTube videos …
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In general terms, student writers need their teachers, peers, and writing coaches to recognize what they’ve done well and offer suggestions for improvement–both for the assignment and for the writer themselves. Those reviewing a student’s work should not be mere editors, but rather, writing coaches and teachers alike should focus on implementing strategies that will …
The first writing experience I can clearly remember was in third grade, Ms. Armstrong’s class, in a suburb north of Milwaukee. At least once per week, we had “quiet journal time,” which, to my recollection, was radically unstructured. We may have had an occasional prompt, but all I can remember is having free quiet time …
Hi, everyone! I’m Caitlin, a post-baccalaureate student in the Secondary English Education program at UW-Milwaukee. I earned my B.A. in Writing from Calvin College in 2015, and since then, I’ve primarily worked in nonprofit communications and development. About a year ago, I began to reconsider my career interest in nonprofit work and, upon further reflection, …
As a Millennial, I came of age in Facebook’s heyday. Although I was one of the last of my peers to get a smartphone, online social media transformed how I interacted with my friends. In high school and college, my friends and I posted pictures, planned events, shared articles, and commented on each other’s content. …
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