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Greetings! My name is Carl Young, and I am Chair of the English Education Special Interest Group (SIG) here at SITE. I am an assistant professor of English and Middle Grades Education at North Carolina State University, and I also serve as coeditor for the English section of Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, otherwise known as the CITE Journal.

While I have been involved with the SITE Conference and the CITE Journal for about eight years now, I began serving as Chair for the English Education SIG at the 2006 Conference.

If you are an English Educator with an interest in technology applications, I encourage you to join our SIG!

At the 2006 Conference, one of our goals as a SIG group was to compose and publish a position paper in which we, as leaders in technology and English Education, would consider how literacy should be (re)defined for current times in light of new and emerging technologies and their impact on language, literacy, and culture. While we have taken some initial steps with this initiative, there is still work to be completed, and I invite you to join us in Las Vegas and contribute to our efforts. I look forward to meeting you and collaborating soon!

Our meeting is Thursday, March 6th, 12:15 – 1:15 pm. The location is still yet to be determined, but I’ll post again with that information when it becomes available.

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Greetings!  My name is Carl Young, and I am the new Chair of the English Education Special Interest Group (SIG) here at SITE.  I’d like to invite any of you who might be interested to participate in the English Education SIG.  This year’s SIG meeting is scheduled for today–Friday, March 30–from 11:45 to 12:45, in the San Antonio Ballroom.  I hope that you can make it!   Feel free to bring your lunch.  I will have a brief agenda, but I also invite you to bring any ideas you have to share that might inform and further shape the agenda, including future endeavors we might pursue together.

One of the topics of discussion I would like to consider together is the current trends in research and practice in English Education and technology—what these are and the direction you see our field going with respect to these trends, along with a discussion of what current research articles and projects are informing and shaping English Education with respect to these trends.  If you could bring ideas to share on this topic and/or others, that would be great.  I look forward to meeting you and collaborating soon!

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For the past two years, the U.S. Congress has funded research through the National Writing Project (NWP) on effective methods of integrating newer technologies into best practices in English language arts/literacy education. Five NWP sites (New York City WP, Alaska WP, Bay Area [CA] WP, West Virginia WP, and my own Red Cedar [Michigan State University] WP) have served as “lead sites.” (Read the article)

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