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===What will your session or activity allow people to make, learn or do?=== | ===What will your session or activity allow people to make, learn or do?=== | ||
The NWP Digital Is website, digitalis.nwp.org, is a project of the National Writing Project (NWP). | The NWP Digital Is website, digitalis.nwp.org, is a project of the National Writing Project (NWP). It has been designed to be a knowledge-base that is created and curated by its community of members in ongoing ways. At Digital Is, the community gathers resources, collections, reflections, inquiries, and stories about what it means to teach writing in our digital, interconnected world. | ||
It has been designed to be a knowledge-base that is created and curated by its community of members in ongoing ways. At Digital Is, the community gathers resources, collections, reflections, inquiries, and stories about what it means to teach writing in our digital, interconnected world. | |||
Digital Is was designed and created based on two fundamental practices of our network: | Digital Is was designed and created based on two fundamental practices of our network: | ||
# a belief in peer-based learning within a community of practice ("Teachers Teaching Teachers"), and; | # a belief in peer-based learning within a community of practice ("Teachers Teaching Teachers"), and; | ||
# a focus on inquiry within | # a focus on inquiry within the community as a way to make meaning and knowledge together. | ||
The website therefore is meant to support | The website therefore is meant to support publishing and sharing with ways to discuss and curate, thereby surfacing knowledge as well providing opportunities to connect and grow new knowledge within an emerging field of practice (ie. in this case, digital writing and literacy). | ||
We are going into a full updating and redesign process in 2013 to further development both the community and its sharing and growing abilities. Come to this design challenge and help us imagine Digital Is into the future. | We are going into a full updating and redesign process in 2013 to further development both the community and its sharing and growing abilities. Come to this design challenge and help us imagine Digital Is into the future. | ||