This year’s National Day on Writing is themed “Write My Community,” a celebration of the ways in which writing helps us form, maintain, and support a variety of communities. As the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative fellows discussed how we might best … Read more... “#WriteMyCommunity: NDoW Showcase and Interview with Kathleen Yancey”
Month: October 2014
When I decided, in high school, that I wanted to become an English teacher, I assumed English was about grammar. Particularly, I assumed English was about the use of proper grammar in writing. Of course, I did not want to … Read more... “Reclaiming my Language: The (Mis)education of Wonderful”
Welcome to another Wiki Wednesday! We’ve been talking recently about public wikis, such as the DRC Wiki, Wikipedia, and other wikis on the web. This week for Wiki Wednesday, we’re talking about a different site for teaching with … Read more... “Wiki Wednesday: Using a Collaborative Classroom Wiki for Exam Study”
The photo above exemplifies how bilinguals communicate with hybrid sense-making strategies. I collected the image during my fieldwork at an after-school program in Kentucky–data from a larger ethnographic project exploring literacy practices in Latino barrios in New York City and … Read more... “Translanguaging Literacies and Community Ethnographies”