Digital Writing Workshop

Summer Literacy Institute

July 2011

How do you deliver your instruction?• Same old thing Same ol way

o Passive Student Engagement  • Same old thing in a new way

o More interest possibly generated but in general still Passive Student Engagement

 • New Thing in a New Way

o  Active Student Engagemento Provides Choices and Options for students

Evaluating Resources

Google Tools Can Help Get Better Results • Wonder Wheel

 • Related Search

 • Timeline 

 Social Bookmarking • Diigo

Your Turn...

Select a topic of interest to you or within your curricular area and explore these tools to see how they will refine and guide your search.

• Wonder Wheel• Related Search• Timeline

Pre-Writing and Brainstorming Tools• Wordle

 • Tagxedo

 • Google Docs

 • Inspiration 

 • bubble.us

 • Paper/Pencil to  PDF

Which one works for you??

Check out the tools below and see which one you would choose to use while you brainstorm?

• Wordle  -  www.wordle.net• Tagxedo - www.tagxedo.com• Inspiration - www.inspiration.com• bubble.us-  https://bubbl.us/• Google Docs -

More great resources for PreWritinghttp://www.go2web20.net/#tag:mindmap

 How Can You Keep Up?

• RSS feedo What is it

Common Crafto Free Technology for Teachers

1st Draft- Peer Editing Component

• Google Docs- Comments • Wiki Page- Discussion

 • Edmodo- Intermediate: Micro Blogging

 • Course Site- Advanced: Online classroom

Discussion

• Go to the Perceptum Wiki and click on the Digital Writing Workshop Page

• Click on the Complete this form link to submit your thoughts on the posted question(s).

Revise and Edit

• Wordleo Repetitive word check

 o Descriptive words

  •  Google Spreadsheet- Template

o 10 Consecutive Sentence Check

Final Copy

• Using tool(s) from 1st Draft

    Check out Voice Thread

Publishing

• WBP• VoiceThread• Video• Class wiki

http://wikiswork.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+Elementary+Classroom+Wikis

 • Class blog

o  http://longhornliteracy.wordpress.com/animal-farm/

o  http://mrsgamezfms.weebly.com/bonkers-for-blogging.html

 

Teaching Craft

...if we simply advise students to "show, don't tell," we miss out on actually demonstrating for students how to read like writers through the teaching of craft...."Show, don't tell," of course takes on new in multimedia writing and gives us even more opportunities to discuss how written text, images, audio, and video can work together to create a more powerful composition. The Digital Writing Workshop by Troy Hicks (2009)  pg. 54. 

Going Digital

Traditional Writing Workshop: Your school principal is considering a new policy that will require all students to wear uniforms. What is your position concerning this issue? Write a letter to your principal stating your position and supporting it with convincing reasons. Be sure to explain your reasons in detail.

Digital Writing Workshop: In your team meeting Monday morning your boss gave your office an assignment to develop a PSA that will be shown during the half-time show at local high school's homecoming game.  The PSA has been commissioned by a local parent association that is trying to gather support for requiring uniforms to be worn by all students and staff at the town's middle and high schools.  Gather your team and decide how you will combine text, images, and audio to construct an effectively persuasive argument.

Traditional Persuasive Essay

Public Service Announcement

Thesis statement with supporting details.Writer is dependent upon supporting details to make argument.  Purpose must be clearly stated within the first few lines of text.

30 to 60 second format.  Writer can use words, audio, and video to state purpose/position.

Tends to be formulaic even among the best students.  Put a thesis statement in the first paragraph - maybe the second paragraph for the more advanced writer - and then support until you bring your arugment to a close.

Writer can use words, audio, and video to state the purpose/position and can reinforce his/her position continuously throughout piece with the use of audio and video as well as text.  Can be formatted in a variety of ways.

Presentation/Publishing tends to be limited to traditional paper either in a handwritten format or through word processing.

Written storyboard evolves into the video presentation of the PSA

Student's creativity is somewhat limited to that which can be expressed through words only.

Creativity is limited only by the student's imagination and available digital tools

Ideas for mini lessons to accompany this activity:• Have students investigate one or more articles on

the Ad Council's site at:  http://www.adcouncil.org/default.aspx?id=15. The investigation should lead to a better understanding of effective persuasive techniques.

•  View other available PSAs on the web such as the American Heart Association at  http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/News/PublicServiceAnnouncements/Public-Service-Announcements_UCM_312002_SubHomePage.jsp# and discuss the types of images and sounds that have the greatest impact on the students while they view.

The Digital Writing Workshop by Troy Hicks (2009)  pg. 60.

• Research shows that effective instruction in  21st -century literacies takes an integrated apporach, helping students understand how to access, evaluate, synthesize, and contribute to information (NCTE, 2007)

 

Additional Resources

• Lanier Tech Wiki •  

http://perceptum.wikispaces.com/Digital+Writing+Workshop