Redwood Writing Project

This (lengthy) page offers links to a variety of site and individual tech projects. Please scroll with abandon! Thank you.

RWP's Tech Team at Work

• Advancing Technology 2007: The Redwood Writing Project's Advanced Technology Institute
  This blog served as the repository for ATI2007's agendas, writing prompts and participant responses to those prompts, readings, directions for using the technology, resources, and links to the tech projects we launched. This month's writing prompt will provide the first entries to our annotated tech bibliography.
  
• Practicing Technology Step by Step
  This visually stunning blog, created by Tech Team member and ATI2007 facilitator Catherine Arnold, serves as our unofficial eYearbook. The project is still under construction, but the pictorial is in place.
  
• GeekGoodies: A Collection of Technology Tools by Teachers for Teachers
  When I launched this wiki at Tech Matters 2006, I envisioned a platform for the exchange of tech knowledge. In fact, here's how I billed it on RWP's website: "Technology aficionados and amateurs alike are welcome to visit our wiki: a collectio n of technology tools by teachers for teachers. Have you recently researched digital cameras before making a purchase? Share your findings with others. Curious about social bookmarking? Gather some wiki wisdom. As a website where anyone can add, change, or delete content, our wiki is the epitome of socially constructed knowledge." The "wiki" entry comes closest to what I envisioned; at the moment, however, GeekGoodies is serving as both as a place for ATI2007 fellows to practice wiki-ing and as a place to collect resources for our tech projects. (If you're after more information about how ATI2007 is using the site's wiki, please follow this link. Thank you.)
• RWP BlogStart: Keep on Blogging in the Real World
  This blog served as the ePlatform for a blogging workshop delivered at RWP's Summer Institute Guest Day and includes the workshop's agenda, notes from the whole-group discussion, blogging resources, links to sample blogs, and even a picture taken mid-workshop. One of the most interesting lessons presenters learned involved participants' request for a bibliography. We delivered a generous link list; they looked for a piece of paper in MLA format. Interesting. . . .
  
  
  
  Digital Storytelling: Harriet's Story Blog
  Harriet Watson came to the ATI2007 fresh from a digital storytelling workshop, and she built upon that work by creating new dStories, a blog to share related passions, and the digital storytelling page on GeekGoodies. People are already lining up to take Harriet's workshop.
• British Literature: Seniors 2008
  Tech Team member and ATI 2007 facilitator Vicki Kurtz has posted this description of her blog: "This is a year-long college prep course. Literature will be chronologically arranged from 500BC to approximately 1950AD. This is where some classroom discussion will take place and assignments will be posted." Because this is a closed blog, we are offering only screenshots of the work Vicki and her students have produced.
  
• CompWiki: Spring 2007
  This wiki represents my tech project's second iteration. It began as a requirement in two of her first-year composition courses; ultimately, however, it became one of three options available for fulfilling a course requirement.
  
• wikiDic: Towards Defining Definitions (A Project by Composition Students at Humboldt State University)
  This wiki represents my tech project's third iteration. This time, it has remained a requirement--even though some of us (including the instructor!) are a bit behind on the project. . . . Follow this link to the complete project directions.
• Mauro Staiano's Family of Moodles, Wikis, and Blogs
  Mauro came to the ATI2007 already tech proficient (we lovingly call him our tech savant), and he used institute time and resources both to try his hand at the few things he didn't already know but mostly to develop the projects he'd been itching to launch. Please follow this link to a sampling of his work.
• Sightings: Steller's Jays
  Tech Team member and ATI 2007 facilitator Catherine Arnold combined her love of Stellar's Jays and her commitment to trying new tech things by launching this generous array of stunning photos and sightings logs. Catherine knows that before she can teach, she must learn--and that she learns best when she's having fun.
  
• Cleo and Me
  RWP Director Emeritus Susan Bennett attended a blogging workshop; within a week, she invited a veteran blogger to lunch--and insisted upon help launching her own blog before she would feed her guest.
  
• Between the Stars
  RWP Associate Director Nikola Hobbel attended the same blogging workshop. She, too, has built and is maintaining the blog inspired by that works hop.