WriteOn! May 6, 2014 (Now with Pictures!)

Here are pictures from our event. Thank you to the 280 students who shared their work! Join students from English as we celebrate the papers, films, websites, poems, Ignite talks, research, and other scholarly projects they have created this semester. Our flyer with more information can be found HERE. Tuesday, May 6, 2014: 2:00-5:30pm in…

Featured Student Work

Students have created some stunning projects for our Reading Literature for Future Teachers class. Recently, they chose a young adult/children’s book author to study and then created multimodal projects representing the texts. Here are a few of my favorites: Morgan Minor filmed her dance group’s representation of being silenced, a powerful idea from the book…

Ignite & Maker Night at Chico State

Peter Kittle and I combined classes for a student produced Maker & Ignite Talk night. Here’s a brief video Peter created about our event:    And here’s a visual summary of a fabulous evening: http://storify.com/drjaxon/chico-ignite-talk-and-maker-night  Ignite Talk videos will be up soon!

Fall 2013: Let the wild rumpus start

Always excited and anxious at the beginning of a new semester. Enjoyed meeting students yesterday in Literacy Studies and Academic Writing, and turning to research in the Scientific Inquiry course.  Living the dream… Here are some resources I’m finding particularly interesting as we begin the new semester: Mark Sample’s Introduction to Digital Studies course site…