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Did you attend the Writing as Making / Making as Writing event?
List of Hangout Participants
- Elyse Eidman-Aadahl – National Writing Project
- Nichole Pinkard – Digital Youth Network
- Bud Hunt – Colorado State University Writing Project
- Andrew Sliwinski – DIY.org
- Jeff Brazil – Digital Media and Learning Research Hub
See the Google Doc Group Notes for resources, and watch the rerun (!) to understand the issues around writing as making.
On my wall at school is this quote: “Writing is hard fun. ~ Donald Murray” This sets the tone for learning about writing — for the work of pulling out the personal imaginings and transforming them into thoughts on paper, on media, in digital to discover the joy, the fun, of creating something that others also appreciate. Because writing is hard fun.
After the event, I created this hack of @dogtrax thimble: Writing as making: thinking as form. Go ahead. Just type ‘edit’ after the URL and you can hack this one!
Writing is making; it’s making a tangible form out of the imaginings of our thoughts; it’s communicating to others or ourselves. It is an act of creation.
If you have a hard time grasping this idea, read about my experience with NaNoWriMo here, try NaNoWriMo yourself — try Camp NaNoWriMo now this July (set any word count, and you could choose to use your #clmooc reflections as your writing!) This post meets my writing goal for today!
Do join #clmooc and have fun “making” along with writing about it.
What do you think? Is writing making? Do writers have something to learn from makers, and do makers have something to learn from writers?
As a writer: Yes. We’ll find more in common than not. Writing and making are hard. Writing and making require thoughtful reflection and revision. Writing and making are fun.
What else might you learn from the event? Check below:
Highlights:
“We need to focus on creating, not just consuming. That cuts across the making community and the writing community.” – Elyse
“When we write we create something” Elyse
“No one has tell you you’re a writer or bless you as a writer. You can just start writing, you can develop an identity.” – Elyse
“Writing is mostly connected to testing & academic performance…writing should belong to the writer & the reader, which is a different relationship than the teacher & the student.” – Elyse
dogtrax: Art happens naturally …. if the path is there, and love and passion is there, and encouragement is part of the environment.
Bud Hunt: writing is hidden in the process side of making
jackiegerstein: Love the idea of “metacognitivising” the writing process; Scott Bekrun did a How to write 1000 words (time lapsed video)
JonBarilone: That’s a great one-liner from Elyse: “Let’s help youth find an interest and follow it through to a more ambitious outcome.”
Links:
These are some of the links from the chat:
Writing as Making/Making as Writing | Connected Learning
I’m Not Waiting | Bud the Teacher
Live version: How to write 1000 words (time lapsed video)
resistance in the materials « Bethany Nowviskie
discoverychange / Writers’ Workshop
A Librarian’s Guide to Makerspaces: 16 Resources – OEDB.org
It’s Not About the Circuits. It’s About the Making. | Bud the Teacher
Interviews, Writers, Quotes, Fiction, Poetry – Paris Review
Maker and Hacker Activities for Young People
Guest Lesson | Gearing Up for a Summer of Making, Connecting and Learning by Doing – NYTimes.com
Power Poetry | The largest mobile/online teen poetry community
Making Learning Connected — A Massively Open Online Collaboration about Connected Learning
Making Learning Connected (#clmooc) – Google+
Group Notes – NWP: Making As Writing – 7/2/13 – Google Drive
Today’s Featured Discussions | Youth Voices
Great collection/reflection, and I loved that you moved into hack mode. Thanks for sharing and inspiring others.
Kevin
Kevin, I think in writing class, we may be saying, “May I hack that?”