The Impact of the Project
Project
Summary
The
Western Kentucky University Writing Project will build upon its
recently reconstituted web presence (based up the May, 2008, Web
Presencing Retreat in Denver) to sponsor an Advanced Institute with
an emphasis on the use of web 2.0 collaborative and social networking
tools. The Advanced Institute will demonstrate how to integrate Web
2.0 tools (Diigo, GoogleDocs, Zoho, Facebook/MySpace, Ning,
Twitter/Edmodo, Flock, VoiceThreads, and Flickr among others) into
the participants’ personal and teaching workflows. The
participants will become the editorial board for the recently
re-visioned website. Their mission will be to promote and develop
the website as an enabling and connective hub of social and
professional development activity for Writing Project fellows in the
schools. They will also promote the use of these tools within their
school work environments through formal and informal professional
development. The
project will be self-sustaining in that the use of social networking
tools is tied into the use of our website. In other words the site
itself will ultimately become the “Advanced Institute”
for future students of these tools. As successive Summer Institutes
learn how to use the websites they will also become part of its
editorial function as writers, editors, and consumers of content. As
we discovered in the NWP visioning retreat last May, the web presence
springs from our mission. The use of the website re-informs the
Project vision of promoting writing in our schools. It does this in
a unique way that continually draws its power from the folk who use
it. We will, to adapt the words of community organizer Myles Horton,
“make and re-make the road by walking it.”
Impact of Project
-
learn personal use of social networking tools,
-
learn to adapt tools to their personal and professional
workflow, -
encouraged
to develop a larger community of practice in professional, -
creating social connections for
all of the teaching consultants, -
be a cadre of social network-savvy users within
their communities of practice, -
help students become responsible social
networking tool users, -
create a site that helps Writing Project
stakeholders learn how to use these tools, and -
help retain and grow the sense of purpose and camaraderie
that is the hallmark of our Summer Institute.
Dissemination
Plan
- share the use of the tools through the WKUWP website,
- share social networking tools through a series of live/streamed workshops,
- share social networking tools with succeeding Summer Intensives,
- share social networking tools in the school
through formal/informal PD. - share with our state writing project network
(http://www.kywritingproject.org/online/). - share by presenting at the State Writing Project conference
(2009), KCTE conference (2010), the NWP National Meeting(2009/2010).
Links/Resources
- Western Kentucky University Writing Project Ning Site: http://wku-wp.ning.com/
- WKUWP “Static” Site: http://www.wku.edu/wp/
- WKUWP Resources Files: http://cid-762040265ca811a6.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Public
- WKUWP UStream Feed: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wku-wp
- WKUWP Diigo Advanced Tech Feed: http://groups.diigo.com/group/advanceinstitutewku
- This GoogleDoc online: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AfeRY5QJvXyqYWg2OXZxbXRkNng1XzIwNWNyZ2dwaGhw&hl=en
Contacts
- Terry Elliott, tech liaison: terry.elliott@wku.edu; terry.elliott@gmail.com; skype: tellio
- John Hagaman, WKUWP Director: john.hagaman@wku.edu
- David Lenoir, head tech liaison: david.lenoir@wku.edu
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