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 ===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.''
-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:
+We're exploring how to foster this community of knowledge makers using online tools. We see these communities functioning to grow an emerging field of practice in education (ie. digital literacy and connected learning), and in this session, we'll gather experiences from fellow educators and knowledge makers, as well as community managers, developers, and designers, to further shape the existing organizing tools and overall forum.
-# a belief in peer-based learning within a community of practice ("Teachers Teaching Teachers"), and;
-# a focus on inquiry within those communities as a way of to foster shared meaning-making and knowledge creation.
-The website therefore is meant to support both inquiry into what literacy means today as well as to provide a place for teachers, learners, writers (and creators of all kinds!) to share and publish their work. The idea is that through sharing, discussing and curating work, Digital Is supports the surfacing of knowledge as well as opportunities to act upon and grow new knowledge together.
+We are going into a full updating and redesign process in 2013. 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. Please help us imagine how to develop Digital Is into the future!
 ===How do you see that working?===
-We’ll start with thinking about the different ways that we have all seen knowledge being shared and created in online or face-to-face environments and then, after some group work and sharing, bring those experiences into looking at the ways we've been working to do this at Digital Is. From this base, we'll then move into our design challenge with opportunities for individual writing/reflection, group sharing, and larger group reporting, response (along with maybe with a bit of crowdsourcing). In getting to know Digital Is, you will have an opportunity to both learn from user stories of site participants and also engage as potential community members at Digital Is in your own right.
+We’ll start with thinking about the different ways that we have all experienced knowledge being shared and created in online or face-to-face environments and then, after some group work, bring those experiences into a look at Digital Is specifically. Our design challenge will therefore include opportunities for individual writing/reflection, group sharing, and larger group reporting, crowdsourcing and response. Additionally, in getting to know Digital Is, you will have an opportunity to learn from community member user stories and also engage as potential community members in your own right.
 ===How will you deal with 5, 15, 50 participants?===
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 ===How long within your session before someone else can teach this?===
-At the writing project, we regularly use writing and the writing process to support both personal as well as collective design and iteration. Throughout this session we will therefore work to make explicit some of the shared processes from our community while being open to learning from yours.
+At the writing project, we regularly use writing and the writing process to support both personal as well as collective inquiry, design and iteration. Throughout this session we will therefore work to make explicit some of the shared processes from our community while being open to learning from yours.
-And, we hope that familiarity with the goals and community of Digital Is also supports others in considering joining the community themselves and sharing their work and we will make this invitation explicit throughout the session.
+We hope that familiarity with the goals and community of Digital Is also supports you in considering joining the community and sharing your work. We will make this invitation and opportunity explicit throughout.
 ===What do you see as outcomes after the festival?===
 We will have some ideas, as well as questions to pursue and recommendations to consider, that will help us pursue building the most awesome website and knowledge building community ever made in support of literacy and connected learning!