Author: katherinepfrank

  • Springing in to March: Active Versus Passive Participation in Digital Spaces

    Two main issues prompted this blog:  1.  My own struggle to blog daily in March about/in conjunction with Digital Is, and 2. the closing conversation in the P2PU.org study group about active versus passive participation in digital spaces. My own experience, on the surface at least, has suggested that my primary issue is time.  I…

  • Springing in to DI: A Quick Reflection

    This morning I realize that I am about halfway through this month of trying to write a blog-a-day for DI.  While I have missed a couple of weekdays, the process has been rather consistent and has taught be a few things about daily engagement with this resource: * DI is incredibly rich and complex:  Engaging…

  • Springing in to DI: Positive Potential

    When I first read Kevin Hodgson’s found poem, “Beyond This Moment in Time,” in response to Elyse Eidman Aadahl’s interview regarding digital writing at DML Central, I was struck by its positive and hopeful tone:  “Writers still mean something–/We make the world: piece by piece, bit by bit”.  The poem is full of action words,…

  • Springing in to DI: Images

    It’s all about first impressions of images this morning as I race to catch up with the day after springing into spring and chasing a lost hour.  The images that curators select in DI often make the first impression while I am navigating the site and cause me to pause, dip, and dig in to…

  • Springing in to DI: A Morning of Comments

    This morning I started exploring other DI blog posts and decided to make some comments.  Inspired by the fabulous conversation taking place at P2PU.org in the study group “Writing and Inquiry in the Digital Age,” I aimed to continue the conversation in other areas.  In so doing, I was reminded once again of the incredible…

  • Springing in to DI: Digital Communication and Audience

    With only enough time to “dip in” to Digital Is today, I identified a resource that was interesting to me in terms of a study group I’m co-facilitating with Christina Cantrill and Troy Hicks through www.P2PU.org titled “Writing and Inquiry in the Digital Age.”  Leslie Moitoza’s “Rethinking Composition in a Multimodal World” caught my attention…

  • Springing in to DI: Participatory Assessment

    I knew where I wanted to start this morning when I returned to Digital Is:  Indiana University Learning Sciences and the research team’s two resources, “Join the Network!” and “Participatory Learning and Assessment Network (PLAnet).”  Quite honestly, as a new member of the IU System, it was initially the IU logo that drew me in,…

  • Springing in to DI: A blog post-a-day in March

    It’s March 1, around 8:30 p.m., and I’m trying to launch, with the same enthusiasm that I felt at the Annual Meeting in November, a DI blog post-a-day project throughout March.  The minutes are ticking away at the end of a long day, but I feel a commitment to this idea that grew out of…