Articles and Chapters by Steph West-Puckett
The Connected Learning Massive Open Online Collaboration (CLMOOC) is an online professional devel... more The Connected Learning Massive Open Online Collaboration (CLMOOC) is an online professional development experience designed as an openly networked, production-centered, participatory learning collaboration for educators. Addressing the paucity of research that investigates learning processes in MOOC experiences, this paper examines the situated literacy practices that emerged as educators in CLMOOC composed, collaborated, and distributed multimediated artifacts. Using a collaborative, interactive visual mapping tool as participant-researchers, we analyzed relationships between publically available artifacts and posts generated in one week through a transliteracies framework. Culled data included posts on Twitter (n = 678), a Google+ Community (n = 105), a Facebook Group (n = 19), a blog feed (n = 5), and a “make” repository (n = 21). Remix was found to be a primary form of interaction and mediator of learning. Participants not only iterated on each others’ artifacts, but on social processes and shared practices as well. Our analysis illuminated four distinct remix mobilities and relational tendencies—bursting, drifting, leveraging, and turning. Bursting and drifting characterize the paces and proximities of remixing while leveraging and turning are activities more obviously disruptive of social processes and power hierarchies. These mobilities and tendencies revealed remix as an emergent, iterative, collaborative, critical practice with transformative possibilities for openly networked web-mediated professional learning.
Papers by Steph West-Puckett
In this article, we explore how one high school, partnering
with the National Writing Project, re... more In this article, we explore how one high school, partnering
with the National Writing Project, redesigned
their senior English course and senior capstone project
around the connected learning framework (Ito et al.,
2013) to link in-and out-of-school literacy practices in
ways supported by new digital media. We highlight its
design and share students’ experiences with the project
to illustrate the possibilities and tensions around designing
for such a project in school settings.
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Articles and Chapters by Steph West-Puckett
Papers by Steph West-Puckett
with the National Writing Project, redesigned
their senior English course and senior capstone project
around the connected learning framework (Ito et al.,
2013) to link in-and out-of-school literacy practices in
ways supported by new digital media. We highlight its
design and share students’ experiences with the project
to illustrate the possibilities and tensions around designing
for such a project in school settings.
with the National Writing Project, redesigned
their senior English course and senior capstone project
around the connected learning framework (Ito et al.,
2013) to link in-and out-of-school literacy practices in
ways supported by new digital media. We highlight its
design and share students’ experiences with the project
to illustrate the possibilities and tensions around designing
for such a project in school settings.