MLI: Red Cedar Writing Project

With support from the Pearson Foundation, the Red Cedar Writing Project organized a weeklong, hands-on digital storytelling workshop for a group of its local teacher consultants.

15 participants developed their own scripts, sourced relevant digital assets to illustrate their projects, recorded voiceovers, and assembled their unique digital stories. Discussion and reflection around the workshop focused on questions of rhetoric (What does this mode/type/genre of writing offer that print texts don't? How does the composition process and an understanding of audience work in this medium?) and the challenges and opportunities that come with working with digital storytelling in the classroom and the community.

To view the digital stories and each participant's personal reflections on the workshop experience, click on the links below.

Workshop Participants
Find out more about the participating teacher consultants. Click on a name or thumbnail image below.

This year's participants are Julie Achterberg, Paul Cryderman, Carrie Eade, Kristie Guerrero-Taylor, Aram Kabodian, Heather Lewis, Heather Loney, Mitch Nobis, Jennifer O'Brien, Martha Puente, Dawn Reed, Stephanie Sheffield, Renee Webster, Jason Wirtz, Andrea Zellner.

Dad was an Airman
by Aram Kabodian

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The National Writing Project's Tech Initiative
The NWP’s Technology Initiative (TI) is a series of opportunities for writing project sites to develop programs that promote the thoughtful integration of technology into the teaching and learning of writing in the nation's schools. It is supported by a special supplement to the NWP federal appropriation that is intended to expand opportunities for teachers to access high-quality resources for professional development in technology.
Read about it here.