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Jenn Fishman
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National Day on Writing
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21st Century Literacies
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Writing, Rhetoric, and...
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Under Cs
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This group is for everyone interested in bringing performance—in theory and in practice—to the fore of contemporary rhetoric and composition.
I brought a first-year student as presenter in a session in San Francisco. Write For Your Life came out of a course on writing and research that my wife and I teach at WSU. The course investigates the intersections between positive psychology, wel...
Recognizing that undergraduate writers and researchers are regular participants in rhetoric and composition scholarship as well as the CCCC, this group is a clearninghouse of information about/for undergraduate scholars and their colleagues.
Help support undergraduate participants in CCCC. Please contribute to this list if you know of—or are part of—a 2010 CCCC session that features undergraduate speakers.
Here at the Community College of Aurora, we are planning a full day celebration. We will be doing "man on the street" interviews with students as they pass through campus, asking them how they use writing, how writing impacts their lives, etc. We ...
I love the idea of publishing a book based on NDOW events. Are you planning to make a print book, an e-book, or both?
Here at UTK, we've talked about creating various kinds of physical and digital artifacts. Online, we've been thinking about a wi...
I just recently was introduced to flip cameras: http://www.theflip.com/products.shtml.
Though I haven't used one yet, we are planning to record some portions of our NDOW events using old-fashioned commercial digital video cameras. Since I teach a...
What is a "flip-camera" interview?
My students are also participating in a poetry reading of their work on the evening of Oct. 20 at our local Barnes and Noble. I am also going to have a couple of students create a podcast.
I teach middle school, and we have been working on poetry and short stories. Our students will be celebrating by contributing their writing and art in chalk out on our blacktop. I will be taking pictures. The work will become a published book of w...
Jenn, this is exciting! Will you be doing this write-in on October 20? Would you be willing/able to get any of the following to NCTE to be shared nationally?
• “flip-camera” interviews with writers from your gallery
• podcast or audio file interv...
Dear Vanessa,
Though I have yet to work with dogs in my classrooms, a student made a film about a local program called Ruff Reading, which brings therapy dogs into elementary school classrooms to read with students who are struggling or reluctant...
What kinds of on-site events are members of this group planning? And (how) will those events be coordinated with online writing galleries?
At UT-Knoxville, a group of us in English is laying plans for both a write-in set in a campus thoroughfare ...
This group is for sharing information about NCTE's National Day on Writing that will be celebrated on October 20, 2009.
This group is for everyone interested in bringing performance—in theory and in practice—to the fore of contemporary rhetoric and composition.
This group is for everyone interested in bringing performance—in theory and in practice—to the fore of contemporary rhetoric and composition.
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- University of Tennessee-Knoxville
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- Assistant Professor of English
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- NCTE
CCCC
- NCTE Member?
- Yes
- How long have you been a member of NCTE?
- c.2002
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"The existing standardized tests are so incredibly bogus that it is the height of impropriety for NCTE and other so-called professional organizations to pretend that tests exist "to identify learning needs, inform instruction, and monitor student ...
So far there has been no response from NCTE in any form since the postings on the website of the Washington Post. The bottom line remains:
NCTE has approved of a plan that calls for
(1) Explicit, systematic teaching of literacy as the only path.
(...
Approximately 8 million students in grades 4-12 are reading below grade level. Limited literacy skills cause 3,000 students to drop out of high school every day.
Join this group to share challenges and solutions.
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