Reading/writing connection

As I'm beginning to read this text, I'm thinking about how it will apply to my instruction of college writing. I've found that reading instruction is an important part of teaching first year composition. Although I encourage my students to print out assigned articles and annotate to improve their comprehension of complex material, I often feel guilty about the expense, and waste, of printing so much material. I'm hoping that this book will offer suggestions for achieving better reading comprehension of digital texts. I haven't been able to offer my students advice on reading digitally, so at this early point that is what I'm reading for.

I'm also curious about the digital composing my students do. Will this text offer methods of teaching that make digital writing/multimodal texts more readable? These are my thoughts as I begin the book.

Hello and good day to you

Hello humans.
I am excited to read this book and share ideas and insights with you for a few of reasons.

A. I am a total fangirl over Troy Hicks. He is my hero!
B. So many students read online texts, research using online articles, respond using online blogs... I would be remiss if I did not face this challenge head on and learn all I can.
C. The world is digital, and while I love the smell of "real" books, I need to meet my students where they are.

I brought the book with me today to get started. We shall see if I get to it during the day. My ToDo list is growing by the moment.

Much love and light to each of you.
Erin Umpstead

Challenges

Reading digital text is different from reading text  printed on dead trees. I wonder how truly different different it is and how my teaching needs to change as I encourage my students to see words as their friends and take ownership of their reading development.

I have been given the challenge of teaching the lowest 20 freshman English 9. I know this group is the disaffected. I am hoping to learn ways to use digital texts to engage them in their own learning.

Karen Chi (not EMWP)