The Evolution of Digital Texts: Bits Flashback for June 20

Just published last week, Troy Hicks’ collection on Reading and Writing Transmedia on the National Writing Project’s Digital Is site explores how digital writing is evolving.

The collection of texts “primarily authored by Laura Fleming represents one educator’s vision of what transmedia is, and what it can be, for teachers and students learning to read and write in a digital age.” You’ll find an explanation and history of transmedia as well as example texts and pedagogical reflections.

Also out last week are these posts from Bedford Bits posts:

• Looking for a new way to do group writing? Holly Pappas explores The Collaborative Writing Sprint: Product & Process.
• Andrea Lunsford shares her Tip for New Teachers #7: Setting Up Effective Peer Groups.
• Jack Solomon explores the semiotics of recent scandals in Congressmen Behaving Badly.
• Whether you want to catch up with poetry or keep up it, High School Bits blogger Jesse Tangen has a solution for you in The Poetry Foundation’s New Website: A Walk-through.
• Traci Gardner explores how to use cell phones and encoded images in the writing classroom with QR Codes for Composition Teachers.
• Susan Naomi Bernstein considers what happens when students compose in that precarious space outside the box–or outside the standardized curriculum in Crooked Seams, ADHD, and Basic Writing: A Narrative of Personal Experience.

A Few Extra Links

• Writers tell stories that demonstrate how everyone is a writer in the video “Who is a Writer: What Writers Tell Us” from the National Conversation on Writing and and the WPA Network for Media Action.
• Learn How the Internet Is Revolutionizing Education in this infographic that takes us from TV lectures to YouTube & Facebook.
• For a diversion, “Test Your Literature IQ” with quizzes on first lines, classic texts, and even cats in fiction.
• Sign up for our Ink’d In newsletter and request free professional resources today.
• Have great assignments or student essays to share? Jay Dolmage is Looking for Essays and Assignments and paying up to $100 for works chosen for publication.

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–Traci Gardner

[Photo: Gunter Somerfeld, Transmedia Development & The New World Model by Gulltaggen, on Flickr]