UNCCWP Day One: Location, location, location...

So we are only 90 minutes "out" of the first day of UNCCWP's Summer Invitational and I'm thinking more about the seamlessness of the day...how it all revolved around ideas related to location. Today's session was very helpful to me and what I'm thinking about with regards to my own research...which is an inquiry into what happens when teachers and students use different types of technologies (digital=blogs, analog=daybooks) during literacy instruction. I could see my students using the Writing Timeline that Sally had us create to trace a path of their own usage of their daybook or involvement on Kidblog (a blogging platform). I could see my students using Mapping experience I led the group through to think more about the classroom...how literacy circulates in that space. Even the Sacred Places experience that Lacy and Steve helped us with late this afternoon to literally "zoom out" and think...over a defined period of time...how literacy circulates in the different spaces (places) they occupy. The Mapping experience I lead may even help me...as a note-taking/making "tool" while I do my research. Hmmm...