NWP and NCTE in Retrospect

I'm still wrapping my mind around four "Compleat" days of professional development. I don't know if I can summarize the experience in a paragraph, or a series of blog posts; though it will filter through the way I teach, facilitate my middle school, and work with the NWP.

I was rather impressed with the Red Cedar Writing Project's team coverage of the event. They wiki'ed, blogged, and podcasted the event quite thoroughly. If you are interested in a blow-by-blow recount of the convention, I'd check out their pages. One of their TC's interviewed me about if / how digital writing will take dominance over the pen and page in years to come. I'm anxious waiting for that MP3 to be posted on their site.

This was my fourth year attending the twin conventions - I'm getting quite experienced at this event. In fact, I'm starting to get the itch to present next year at either NWP / NCTE in NYC and / or the NWP Rutgers Midwinter writing conference. I have several ideas relating to technology, writing, and New Literacy Studies / multimodality. If you are interested in co-presenting a session in a similar vein, please contact me by adding a comment to this post.

Well, goodbye to Nashville, the Music City. Goodbye to Opryland - the gaudy "Disney" village under a glass dome. Goodbye to Jack Daniels and the honky tonks. Goodbye to the ghosts, phantasm orbs, and the ghost of Skull that haunts Painter's Alley. Goodbye to the all-to-noticeable teachers with their tote bags filled to the brim (yeah, you know what I'm talking about). To national and local NWP and NCTE teachers alike.

Another end. But for every end, there's a new beginning. Here's looking to NWP and NCTE in NYC 2007.

Tags: NWP, NCTE, convention, Nashville, TN, writing, Red Cedar Writing Project