Links for BRAWN

These are a collection of links which may, or may not, prove useful for our discussion today. They're here so they're at hand.

NY Times on children's books on the iPad

http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/the-best-childrens-books-on-the-ipad/

• Sample via YouTube: Go, Clifford, Go

Books in the Age of the iPad by Craig Mod: http://craigmod.com/journal/ipad_and_books/

College Students and Technology by Smith, Rainie, and Zickuhr from PEW Internet and American Life Project: http://pewinternet.org/reports/2011/college-students-and-technology/report.aspx

(Note the low levels, still, of e-book reader devices. See also: http://www.ala.org/lita/ital/sites/ala.org.lita.ital/files/content/30/3/pdf/foasberg.pdf)

However, e-reading is on the rise, says a recent PEW study: http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2012/04/04/the-rise-of-e-reading/

Aside: NEA 2007 study on reading -- http://www.nea.gov/research/ToRead.pdf (scroll to page 8 to learn that "65% of college freshmen read for pleasure for less than an hour per week or not at all.")

Buy Print, Rent Print, or E-book, a student view - http://www.bu.edu/today/2011/textbooks-rent-buy-or-ebook-it/

Evolution of the E-book: When Is a Book Not a Book? By Mathew Ingram in Business Week at http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2010/tc20101015_865569.htm

Re:Writing Plus from Bedford/St. Martin's for IX peek: http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/rewriting2e/

Writing Pedagogy 2.0 @ UCI: Links, Links, Links

From the Web

Context

Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing: http://wpacouncil.org/framework

CompPile: http://comppile.org/search/comppile_main_search.php

CCCC Statement on Teaching in Digital Settings: http://www.ncte.org/cccc/resources/positions/digitalenvironments

Doug Hesse on Whether Computers Should Grade Writing: http://www.du.edu/writing/point_computergrading.html

NCTE - WPA White Paper on Writing Assessment: http://wpacouncil.org/whitepaper

The Online Learning Record by Peg Syverson: http://www.learningrecord.org/

Technology

Teaching with Technology from The Writing Studio @ CSU: http://writing.colostate.edu/teaching_guides.cfm?guides_active=tech

Teaching Writing w/ Technology from Montclair State's Center for Writing Excellence: http://www.montclair.edu/cwe/dashboard-teaching/technology.html

Teaching Writing Online by Scott Warnock: https://secure.ncte.org/store/teaching-writing-online (sample chapter available)

Scott's blog: http://onlinewritingteacher.blogspot.com/

Traci Gardner's Lists of Ten: http://www.tengrrl.com/blog/lists-of-ten/

Using Technology for Education from CMU: http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/technology/index.html

ProfHacker: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker

Sample: A Framework for Teaching with Twitter by Mark Sample:
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/a-framework-for-teaching-with-twitter/26223

A quick overview of online bibliography tools: http://www.technorhetoric.net/15.2/reviews/carbone/index.html

Web 2.0 Tools for Teaching Writing: It's not just in colleges - http://askatechteacher.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/top-13-web-2-0-tools-for-classrooms/

Confessions of a Committed Technofile by Shelley Rodrigo http://www.committedtechnofile.com/index.php/

From Bedford/St. Martin's

Teaching Central: http://bedfordstmartins.com/teachingcentral/

Bedford Bits: http://bedfordbits.com/

Teaching with Technology: http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/workshops/

The Bedford E-Portfolio: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/Catalog/other/ePortfolio_About

Eli Peer Review:  http://elireview.com/