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Update to Wesch's original video "A Vision of Students Today." Made up of student produced films about what it means to be "a student today."

This is one perspective on why students should be given multiple opportunities to demonstrate their knowledge

"If you want to see what this will mean for students in the long run, check out Santa Monica College, a 34,000-student community college in California, where the most popular classes -- the ones students absolutely need to take before they graduate -- could soon be the most expensive. This is a future where the wealthiest students might just end up with a leg up on everyone else. "

Haven't read all of these articles, but the few I skimmed looked like really good resources for potential readings for students. Specifically geared at the "new" writing students

I used several of these readings in my syllabus. They are really neat!

Really awesome student project for an art class, but it seems like a great visual of another form of composition :)

This is really interesting, especially as we approach the time to begin designing our syllabi.

One of my favorite conferences is in SF this year, March 1-3. I'll most likely attend Friday and Saturday. You might consider going for one or two days to get a feel for current trends in digital learning and literacy. From the site: "The Digital Media and Learning Conference is an annual event supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the UC Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine."

Registration closes Feb 3, $50 for students

From the description: "It took tens of thousands of years for writing to emerge after humans spoke their first words. It took thousands more before the printing press and a few hundred again before the telegraph. Today a new medium of communication emerges every time somebody creates a new web application. A Flickr here, a Twitter there, and a new way of relating to others emerges. New types of conversation, argumentation, and collaboration are realized. Using examples from anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, YouTube, university classrooms, and "the future," this presentation will demonstrate the profound yet often unnoticed ways in which media "mediate" our culture."

More Mike Wesch. If you haven't seen this talk he gave to the library of congress, you should. Great model for inquiry based work with students.