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Using Role Play to Nurture Activist Rhetors - TTT138 - 02.04.09

Posted by Paul Allison on 17th February 2009

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Richard Beach, Liz Boesler, and Candance Doerr-Stevens were our guests on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers:

  • Richard Beach is a professor of English education at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches and conducts research on media literacy methods, digital writing and identity construction. Richard recently published a new book, Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and other Digital Tools
  • Elizabeth (“Liz”) Boeser is an English/language arts teacher, Jefferson High School, Bloomington, MN, a teacher featured in Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and other Digital Tools who conducted the online role-play activities.
  • Candance Doerr-Stevens is a former English teacher, and current graduate student at the University of Minnesota. Candance is also a staff member at the Minnesota Writing Project, and she is studying online role-play with Richard.

Want more? Here are several more links about our guests:

Please enjoy the podcast.

Go to EdTechTalk to see a transcript of a chat that was happening during the webcast.

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Hard Questions for Teachers Who Teach Blogging - TTT48 04.11.07

Posted by Paul Allison on 13th April 2007

Posted in Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Blogging, assessment, New York City Writing Project | 5 Comments »

Developing Student Comments TTT_24

Posted by SusanEttenheim on 12th October 2006

Posted in Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Chris Sloan, Podcasting, Community, Writing, Webcast, Lee Baber, David Cormier, assessment, elgg, writely, Madeline Brownstone, commenting, Troy Hicks, Spacecast | No Comments »

Developing students comments on each others blogs

Posted by Paul Allison on 4th October 2006

Posted in Blogging, Chris Sloan, play, sandbox, assessment, elgg, public/private, collaboration | 2 Comments »

Continuing adventures in elgg-land

Posted by Paul Allison on 26th September 2006

Posted in Richard Stohlman, Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Chris Sloan, Community, Writing, play, assessment, elgg, public/private, mapping, google maps, collaboration, New York City Writing Project | 4 Comments »

The Power of Play: Crossing Boundaries in Content Classrooms

Posted by jwall3 on 7th June 2006

Posted in Community, Writing, jwall3, separate spaces, play, system, sandbox, assessment, boundaries | No Comments »