Week 9 2018 Writing in digital spaces

 As I write my blog entry, I'm thinking quite a bit about my own New Literacy practices, particularly around collaboration on writing projects in digital spaces.  This blog is one example, but it is probably the least collaborative of what I've had to work on.  One project we (and that is me and my research collaborators, none of whom are at OU) are working on is writing an article about a project on knowledgeable teachers.  We have already analyzed data from interviews that each of us did of teachers who are exemplars of knowledgeable teaching. We put copies of each others interview transcripts in Dropbox, we entered our coding notes into a Google form and we all wrote reflective memos about what we were seeing.  We meet via Skype to discuss what we are doing as well as sending things via email.  We have multiple copies of the drafts in our Dropbox folder.  Then there is my new Uganda partners.  One is a lecturer at Gulu University in Uganda (although he is a Canadian) working in adult literacy, lifelong learning, and community engaged research. The other collaborator is Sr. Rosemary, my new doctoral student.  WE have a folder on Google Drive with articles for each of us to read, our research ideas, and now our proposal for a symposium at the European Conference on Literacy in 2019. We have Skyped and brainstormed ideas and written together on the Google doc.  By the time you read this, I will have submitted the proposal.

You are going to be reading about writing and collaboration in digital spaces. Before you read, I'd like you to think about the following terms or ideas:  blogs,  vlog, digital story, digital anchor charts, mentor texts, genres, websites, cloud computing, writing craft, audience, purpose, writing notebook. All of these are related in some way to writing in digital spaces.

As you write your blog and respond to each other, I'd like each of you to include at least 1 hyperlink.  The hyperlink needs to be related to your topic of discussion.  

 A couple of questions and ideas I'd like for you all to discuss in your blogs as well.  For what kind of activity do you think it would be better to have students collaborate on a Google doc and for what kind should  they collaborate on a blog?  Why? Look up your topic or look up New Literacies on Wikipedia.  What did you find?  How accurate was it? How  do you know? Which of these ideas that you read about would you like to try with students? which have your tried?

Finally, please complete a Virtual Check In this week by Friday morning.  I'll check them regularly and respond to questions or requests as I can.