Tomorrow on Teachers Teaching Teachers, our guests will be:

• Richard Beach, a professor of English education at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches and conducts research on media literacy methods, digital writing and identity construction. Richard recently published a new book, Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and other Digital Tools
  
• Elizabeth (“Liz”) Boeser, an English/language arts teacher, Jefferson High School, Bloomington, MN, a teacher featured in Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and other Digital Tools who conducted the online role-play activities.
  
• Candance Doerr-Stevens, a former English teacher, and current graduate student at the University of Minnesota. Candance is also a staff member at the Minnesota Writing Project, and she is studying online role-play with Richard.

Want more? Here are several more links about our guests:

• Liz Boeser’s current Spring, 2009 courses
• Examples of the online role-play:
  • University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux mascot debate (used with Montana, 1948): http://roleplaymascots.blogspot.com and http://mascotroleplay.blogspot.com/
• Resource wiki created for Montana, 1948: http://jhscollegewritingmontana.pbwiki.com/
• Censorship role-play http://schooledthewriteway.blogspot.com/
• NCTE 2008 presentation, San Antonio http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dfzwnznz_8djj37cgq
• K-12 Online Conference 2008 presentation http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=326

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Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim

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