Saturday, June 02, 2012

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
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/


Thursday, May 31, 2012

Writing Pedagogy 2.0 @ UCI: Links, Links, Links


From the Web

Context

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


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)


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


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


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