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Digital stories for faculty development of exemplary teaching strategies and the process of implementing them.

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The NWP Digital Is website is a collection of ideas, reflections, and stories about what it means to teach writing in our digital, interconnected world.

"The Power of Real-World Gender Roles in Second Life Pixels and Policy recently tackled the issue of how racial bias crept across the real-virtual divide and found a home in the virtual world. Dozens of our readers responded with their own stories of virtual prejudice as well as their critiques of our research. As we researched the role of race is Second Life, more and more female residents asked us to take a look at how female avatars reflect real-world gender expectations. The topic is too important to pass up. Over the course of three weeks, Pixels and Policy conducted interviews with over 40 residents of Second Life to see just what gender in the Metaverse meant to them."

Loved this quote, "...A GREAT lecture can be amazing and I try in my keynotes to deliver a great lecture. But in my classes it's a different story! I rarely lecture at all anymore. I have those students for 45 hours a term - I don't need to cram anything into an hour. And I know that nobody can create 45 amazing lectures per term. In fact, after polling about 20,000 teachers and professors, the average number of great lecturers on campus seems to be 3 and the total number of great lectures any one person delivers seems to be 3."

Engage your class with Adobe Slate, a free, easy-to-use iPad app that let's you turn words and images into beautiful digital stories. Apply magazine style layouts, add buttons that can link anywhere, and share content through social channels. See how you can use Slate in your classroom and get lesson plans in this self-paced workshop.