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Writing Into the Day: April 16, 2005#

Why did I pick up this invitation to come to Lansing the weekend after I was out of town in Washington DC and the week before the last week of clinic? Multiple reasons...why was this important to me?  I told some of my students the other day that I was going to be spending the weekend with some incredibly smart, creative, and challenging people who have interests similar to mine and readily share their expertise with me.  One of my students quipped, "Oh, so by going to this workshop you can be your geekiest self and still be cool?"  Of course, that's it.  Here I can be a geek and be cool at the same time. Seriously though, I'm going to write with some incredible honesty.  I often feel as though every other site is doing more interesting work than I'm doing, motivating their participants better than I do, and creating more interesting artifacts than I do.  I'm here to learn as much about technology as possible but also to learn from the models of leadership my colleagues will be sharing on an implicit level.  I want to ask them to surface, make explicit, the ways in which they support their teachers.  How, for example, does the Red Cedar Writing Project motivate teachers in Lansing to show up at the MSU Writing Center after school hours?  How do they ignite a desire in their teachers to spend more of their own time developing themselves as teachers than they already spend?  I want to strengthen my own understanding of the multiple (does that word even convey the implication I want to convey?) ways in which technology can support learning but more importantly I need to understand the ways in which other sites support the develoment of their own teachers in developing their uses of technology in their classrooms or contexts.

Posted by Karen McComas on 4/16/05; 8:35:03 AM to the Digital Literacy Department
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