Matthew Ulyesses Blankenship, M.Ed.

Annual Review Matrix 2014 - 2015

Conceptual
In-Progress
Thinking
Dissertation In what ways do
praxis (policy and practice)
forces impact literacy
teachers curricular planning
decisions within secondary
literacy classrooms?
Blankenship. M.U. &
Margarella, E. E. (July, 2014. In
Review) Getting to the Core:
How Independent Reading
Supports Common Core
Standards. Paper to be
presented at the International
Reading Association annual
meeting.

Submitted for Review

Blankenship. M.U. &
Margarella, E.E. (Resubmitted
2015) Word level analysis of
Florida senate bill 736.
International Journal of
Education Policy and
Leadership.

Published, Presented, Accepted

Margarella, E.E. & Blankenship, M.U.
(2014). Kindles in the classroom: a survey
of teachers and their perceptions of a
mandated high school kindle initiative.
Journal of Technology Integration.
Margarella, E.E., Blankenship, M.U.
(2015). E-Textbooks as a Means for
Collaborating and Connecting in the
Secondary Classroom: A Survey of
Teacher Perceptions of a Mandated
Technology Initiative. Paper to be
presented at the American Association for
Teaching and Curriculum Annual Meeting.
Blankenship, M. U. (October, 2014
Accepted). Independent Reading:
Catching Students Reading. Paper to be
presented at the Florida Reading
Association Annual Meeting.
Margarella, E.E., Blankenship. M.U.

(December, 2014). When Technology

Integration is Required, Do Teachers
Benefit?: Survey Results from a
Mandatory High School Kindle Initiative.
Paper to be presented at the Literacy
Research Association Annual Meeting.
Blankenship, M. U. & Margarella, E. E.,
(October, 2014). The Act of Education:
How Secondary Literacy Teachers View
Students Role in Reading Instruction.
Paper to be presented at the Association
of Literacy Educators and Researchers
Annual Meeting.
Margarella, E.E., Blankenship, M.U.
(March, 2014). Kindles in the Classroom:
A Survey of Teachers and their
Perceptions of a Mandated Technology
Initiative. Poster presented at the
University of South Florida Graduate
Research Symposium.
Blankenship, M.U., Margarella, E.E.,
Thomas, J., & Holmberg, A. (2015) Writing
for fluency: co-teaching to create
scientific information texts (5th grade). In
J.J. Schneider (Ed.). Casework in K-6
writing instruction: Connecting composing
strategies, digital literacies, and
disciplinary content toe the Common
Core. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Blankenship, M.U. & Margarella, E.E.

(2014). Technology and secondary
writing: a review of the literature. The
Contemporary Educational Technology,
5(2), 146-160.
Margarella, E.E., Blankenship, M.U., &
Schneider, J.J. (2013). What pre-service
teachers taught us about teaching
writing. The California Reader, 47(2), 2934.