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Session Description:

 * The Internet as a medium, or way of communicating, is dynamic, complex, exciting, amazingly diverse, and, in plenty of substantive ways, pretty much nothing new. We have made connections through printed texts and oral stories for generations, other media have filled the gaps between peoples and cultures. There is, to quote a rather old text, “nothing new under the sun.” And yet there’s something about the nature of the Internet, and how it functions, that helps to flesh out a vital component of the writing process that was never quite visible before. Call it connective writing, or hypertext, or what you will, but the almost tactile connections we can make between texts and folks online are dynamic and significant. There’s nothing new about making text to text connections, but there’s sure something powerful in the representation of those links as semi-tangible things.

As we move forward into the new read/write web, I think it's of value to reconsider both the "reading" and "writing" sides of the equation. We’ll save the reading for another time. Come to a workshop where we will revel in, and experiment with, writing and the power of language, thought, diction and connection to create and discover the world and ourselves. We’ll use some very 1.0 methodologies and some very 2.0 basic tools to think about how we write, what we write, and what we do and don’t do when we write and when we ask students to write for school. **

You will learn:
1. how the world of Web 2.0 and the Read/Write Web is a rhetorical space, full of opportunity for writers and writing. 2. how to approach networks, websites, the Internet and writing itself as a series of connections, as well as how to identify those connections in writerly language. 3. strategies for writing instruction that will bridge the gap between traditional "school writing" and the current writing practices of students today.

**Presenter Bio: Bud Hunt, Longmont, CO**
Bud Hunt is an instructional technologist for the St. Vrain Valley School District in northern Colorado. Formerly, he taught high school language arts and journalism at Olde Columbine High School in Longmont, Colorado. He is a teacher-consultant with the Colorado State University Writing Project, an affiliate of the National Writing Project, a group working to improve the teaching of writing in schools via regular and meaningful professional development. Bud is a former co-editor of the New Voices column of English Journal, a publication of the National Council of Teachers of English. Bud is a co-founder of Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation and has served as an Online Community Leader for the New Jersey Cohort of Powerful Learning Practice, a long-term, job-embedded professional development program that immerses participants in 21st Century learning environments.

A consumer of copious amounts of New Media, Bud's explorations of his learning and what it means to do so in public can be found at http://www.budtheteacher.com.