best teaching practices to engage your students

What is Reading in a Participatory Culture?

Being conservative in content, we can be radical in approach

What is Reading in a Participatory Culture?

New Media affords new practices

•How would Jay Gatsby speak? •What if Jay Gatsby hadn’t taken the blame for Myrtle’s death, how would

the others act? •What would each of them write in 140 characters over a couple of days

of storytelling, especially if this story were of today’s American Dream instead of the 1920s?

What is Reading in a Participatory Culture?

Nature of Expertise has changed

What is Reading in a Participatory Culture?

Media production model

4 C’s of Participatory Designexplored through Narrative

Create artifacts for self-expression and as objects to learn with.

Connect with other learners of shared interests to affiliate with a domain.

Circulate content to engender shared knowledge networks.

Collaborate on design activities to foster co-configured expertise

In developing a new eBookI’m Exploring…

What a “sense of place” means in a hybrid society

What a “sense of place” means in a hybrid society

What a “sense of place” means in a hybrid society

What a “sense of place” means in a hybrid society

Route 66 as a journey of the “we” narrative

The relationship between Route 66 and Grapes of Wrath

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Route 66 as a journey of the “we” narrative

Route 66 as a journey of the “we” narrative

…All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people—speaking out—in prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking out—in homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes—let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind.

(Robert F. Kennedy, Address, 10th Anniversary Convocation Center for Study of Democratic Institutions of the Fund for the Republic, New York City, January 22, 1963)