Establish and grow your relationship with NWP Digital Is [March 7, 2012, 10:25 a.m.]

Happy Wednesday!

Thank you so much for jumping in and sharing a bit about yourself as we get this study group started. Lots of wonderful ideas, resources and conversations already! If you haven't jumped in to the Introductions yet, please take a moment to do so.

If you have done this already and are ready to move on, we'd like to introduce you to a new forum and the main "text" of this study group, NWP Digital Is.

As an emerging knowledge-base created and curated by its community of members, Digital Is gathers resources, collections, reflections, and stories about what it means to teach writing in our digital, interconnected world. (learn more here)

We invite you all to spend some time within NWP Digital Is this week whether this site is brand new to you or if you have some familiarity with it. As Katherine Frank wrote on March 1st as she "sprung" into a blog-post-a-day in March at this website:

Connecting with DI is like fostering a relationship and depending on the contact--frequency, duration, depth, etc.--the relationship changes. Each time I engage with the site, I "know" it in a new way, and through this blogging project, I want to think more about this process of "knowing" and knowledge-building and how it might contribute to my own growth as a learner-teacher-scholar as well as how it might be used to grow the site.

We invite you to establish and/or grow your relationship too and consider how it might contribute to your own growth as a learner-teacher-scholar. One of the ways we have found that supports a fresh creative approach to the site is through a game-ie. Digital Is Bingo! This version of DI Bingo is built off different 21st century traits and habits of mind collected in the book Because Digital Writing Matters.

The tasks we then are suggesting include:

Create an account in Digital Is -- ie. Join/Login and create your profile.
Explore using the Bingo chart and Traits list from Digital Is Bingo.
In Digital is, bookmark at least three resources you find interesting.
- Note that the bookmark feature is available at the right and bottom of all resources/collections/blogs.
- You can find your list of bookmarks at your Member Home.
- View screencast to see how this works.
Post a link to your bookmarks here at P2PU and briefly discuss what you found.
After doing this exploration, please also share here at P2PU some initial thoughts about your emerging relationship to Digital Is as well as any questions/concerns raised during this process of connecting and exploring.