Courtyard+Reflections

Quotable Quotes:
"While many students have opportunities to practice composing in electronic environments, explicit and intentional instruction focusing on the use and implications of writing and reading using electronic technologies will contribute to students’ abilities to use them effectively." from "Framework for Success in Post-Secondary Writing" (MLS)

Also, from "Framework for Success" I really like the list of "habits of mind" because those habits can also apply to other grade levels to encourage good writing (Meta). I even posted (and cited) this list in a new wiki I'm creating for one of my courses this fall:
 * Curiosity: the desire to know more about the world.
 * Openness: the willingness to consider new ways of being and thinking in the world.
 * Engagement: a sense of investment and involvement in learning.
 * Creativity: the ability to use novel approaches for generating, investigating, and representing ideas.
 * Persistence: the ability to sustain interest in and attention to short- and long-term projects.
 * Responsibility: the ability to take ownership of one’s actions and understand the consequences of those actions for oneself and others.
 * Flexibility: the ability to adapt to situations, expectations, or demands.
 * Metacognition: the ability to reflect on one’s own thinking as well as on the individual and cultural processes used to structure knowledge.

"What’s needed is a renaissance of attention—a revaluing and cultivating of the art of attention, to help us cultivate depth of thought and relations in this complex, high-tech time." Maggie Jackson, Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age (see link below!)

"...writing is an expression of every person's individuality." //On Writing Well//, William Zinser (1998)--Ayanna This quote summarizes what I believe we have experienced through the last three weeks; self-expression and clarification of self.

Reading Choices:
Article: “Framework for Success in Post-Secondary Writing”(download from [])

Digital Is collection, It’s the End of the World as We Know It: []

[|Kinetic poem from Digital IS] (This page was the inspiration for a couple of slides I sent you via email - It's very short, maybe we can use it at the end. ~ Meta)

[] So, Is Google Making us Stupid? Laura's Request - I liked a link to the original, longer article from this page, which was Carr's article from the Atlantic (Meta). http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/

[] Maggie Jackson on Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age

[] Paying Attention to Attention (This one wasn't that interesting to me. A little flat/uninteresting. ~Meta)

Susan: Three connected articles "Why College Students Can't Write Well Parts 1, 2 and 3 look interesting and none are very long. [] I think "Framework for Success in Post-Secondary Writing" would be valuable to read also.