Reading and Writing in Kentuckiana: Paul Hankins and student talk about their Ning - TTT 189 - 02.24.10
Posted by Paul Allison on 7th March 2010
Reading and Writing in Kentuckiana: Paul Hankins and student talk about their Ning - TTT 189 - 02.24.10 [72:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadOn this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, you will learn more about RAW INcK: Reading and Writing in Kentuckiana. Our guests were one site’s student managers, Tyler, along with their teacher, Paul W. Hankins, an English Teacher and Creator of RAW INcK. (Another student-manager of the Ning, Jin joined us in the chat room.) Paul is also a teacher-consultant with the Indiana University Southeast Writing Project and a State Representative to ALAN from Indiana. Listen to find out why we are excited to connect up with RAW INcK, “A Reading and Writing Community Hosted by the Juniors of Silver Creek High School [Indiana]. Now hosting members from all across America! Go INcK!”
Learn about how they set up chat sessions with authors like these:
- Ellen Hopkins, author of Crank, Burned, Impulse, Glass, and Identical.
- Chris Crutcher. Crutcher’s works include Athletic Shorts, Chinese Handcuffs, Deadline, The Sledding Hill, and King of the Mild Frontier.
- Kimberly Willis Holt, author of When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, My Louisiana Sky, and a host of other YA titles.
Go to EdTechTalk to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast.
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