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	<title>Jen Scott Curwood</title>
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		<title>GRAPHIC at the Opera House</title>
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As if I needed another reason to love Sydney.
Not only is it one of my favorite cities in the world and where I met my wonderful husband, the Opera House is hosting GRAPHIC next month.
Comic books, illustration, animation, music, multimedia and other new ways of telling stories have not only changed the face of our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jensc.org/2010/07/graphic-at-the-opera-house/</link>
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		<title>YA Lit and the Immigrant Experience</title>
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&#8220;You&#8217;re facing ten years in prison and $200,000 in fines.&#8221;
I never imagined that I&#8217;d hear those words, let alone from an immigration official.  I was born and raised in Wisconsin, a U.S. citizen by birth.  My crime?  I married an Australian.
To the immigration official, my related crimes included not adding my new husband to my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jensc.org/2010/06/ya-lit-and-the-immigrant-experience/</link>
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		<title>Multimodal Counternarratives</title>
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Five years ago, I began teaching a digital poetry unit in my 10th grade English classes, in collaboration with my school&#8217;s library media specialist, Lora Cowell.  With iPoetry, students engaged in a process of multimodal composition where they integrated still images or video with music, voiceovers, text, and transitions.
In the recent issue of the International [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jensc.org/2010/06/multimodal-counternarratives/</link>
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		<title>Wisconsin English Journal &#8211; Spring 2010</title>
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Check out the new online version of the Wisconsin English Journal!  For over 50 years, the Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English has published this fabulous resource.  Last year, when the University of Wisconsin &#8211; Madison editorial team took over, we sought to update and expand the journal.  As part of our task, we&#8217;re also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jensc.org/2010/05/wi-english-journal-spring-2010-issue/</link>
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		<title>GLS Educator Symposium</title>
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I&#8217;m really happy to share the latest news about the second annual Games+Learning+Society Educator Symposium, which will be held on Saturday, June 12th.  Not only does this day-long event only cost $10, but we&#8217;re also offering one University of Wisconsin &#8211; Madison graduate credit for an additional $100.
The GLS Educator Symposium features panel presentations and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jensc.org/2010/04/gameslearningsociety-educator-symposium/</link>
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		<title>Distributed Cognition in the Classroom</title>
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Last summer, I had the opportunity to attend the annual conference of United Kingdom Literacy Association.  I met some wonderful people, and it was so exciting to hear about the research happening in the UK and Australia.  Mary Louise Gomez, Melissa Schieble, Dawnene Hassett, and I also have an article out in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jensc.org/2010/03/distributed-cognition-in-the-classroom/</link>
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		<title>Games+Learning+Society CFP</title>
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The call for papers is now out for the Games+Learning+Society 6.0 Conference, which will be held June 9-11, 2010, in Madison, Wisconsin.  The three conference themes this year are formal and informal science literacy, media production and identity, and game design and learning.  All proposals for papers and posters are due by February 1, 2010.


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		<link>http://www.jensc.org/2009/12/gameslearningsociety-cfp/</link>
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		<title>K-3 Multimodal Instruction</title>
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I&#8217;m happy to share that Dawnene Hassett and I have an article in the December 2009 issue of The Reading Teacher entitled &#8220;Theories and Practices of Multimodal Education: Instructional Dynamics of Picture Books and Primary Classrooms.&#8221;  I&#8217;m lucky enough to have Dawnene as my advisor, and this paper draws from our research in K-3 classrooms [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jensc.org/2009/11/k-3-multimodal-instruction/</link>
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		<title>Wisconsin English Journal</title>
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Check out the Wisconsin English Journal, now housed at the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center.  A publication of the Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English, it was founded in 1959.  On the UW-River Falls website, some of the article titles from a half-century ago still sound relevant today: &#8220;How to Help Students Write Better,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jensc.org/2009/11/wisconsin-english-journal/</link>
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		<title>Dissertation Abstract</title>
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From June 2009 to June 2010, I am collecting qualitative data for my dissertation research.  I have been fortunate to find two incredible research sites, and every week, I am excited to visit them and work with the secondary English teachers, library media specialists, and technology coordinators.  Here is a current dissertation abstract.  As I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jensc.org/2009/10/dissertation-abstract/</link>
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