Purposes for Using Web 2.0 Tools in the Classroom: Use of Digital Writing Tools to Teach Literature and Writing Rick BeachUniversity of Minnesota

Jeff Uteckt: Literacy Curriculum Models

Tools Purposes Reading/Writing/Communicating

Purpose: Acquiring and subscribing to/sharing informationSocial Bookmarking and sharing links/tagsSharing links in class Diigo groups Adding annotations to online literary texts for sharing responses to literature

Social bookmarking: Diigo.comSet up Groups based on classesStudents share bookmarks to the classStudents tag bookmarksStudents annotate online texts/sites using sticky notes

Using Diigo for adding a sticky-note response1. Add Diigo to your toolbar

2. Find a an online text--a poem

3. Highlight sections of the text

4. Click on the icon to add a Sticky Note response

5. Have other students in Diigo groups add their responses

Womanhood, Catherine Anderson She slides over the hot upholstery of her mother's car, this schoolgirl of fifteen who loves humming & swaying with the radio. Her entry into womanhood will be like all the other girls' a cigarette and a joke, as she strides up with the rest to a brick factory where she'll sew rag rugs from textile strips of kelly green, bright red, aqua. When she enters, and the millgate closes, final as a slap, there'll be silence. She'll see fifteen high windows cemented over to cut out light. Inside, a constant, deafening noise and warm air smelling of oil, the shifts continuing on ... All day she'll guide cloth along a line of whirring needles, her arms & shoulders rocking back & forth with the machines 200 porch size rugs behind her before she can stop to reach up, like her mother, and pick the lint out of her hair.

Highlighting and adding a Sticky Note to the poem

Purpose: Uses of mapping for responding to literatureVisually portray performances according to three units of analysis: Events|Spaces|Social worlds/systems

digital mind-mapping -->defining topics/connectionsInspirationBubbl.usCompendiumFreemindOpenMindVYM (View Your Mind)

Event as unit of analysis:Characters act and react to current and future acts to create an event or context Utterances have consequencesUptake of speech acts or lack of actionEvents have boundariesPeople in the event People/forces outside the event but still influencing the event the elephant in the room

Space as unit of analysisSpaces as gendered, raced, or classed Gendered worlds as mediated by language useThorne: children on playground space: practices not necessarily genderedTeacher: tells children to group up by boys and girlsPlayground space becomes gendered as a binary space

Social Worlds/Institutional SystemsSocial worlds/systemsschooling, workplace/economic, family, health care, justice, government/political, media, etc., Driven by larger objects or outcomes School: enhanced students literacyWorkplace: higher profits

Map of Womanhood

Mapping storyline development: Film: O Brother Where Art Thou?

Purpose: blogs and wikis: voice opinions and share knowledgeBlogs:Individual expression of ideas/personal accounts Hyperlinking of textsComments from peersMultimodal writingWikis:Collaborative writing of reports/essaysShared revision Hyperlinking of textsMultimodal writing

Blogs as individual expression: Response to SpeakRather than using a traditional journal, you can use blogs. This student uses written words, oral expression and a video to guide us through a comparison of her room and Melinda's.

Melinda is the main character in the novel Speak.

http://darkcheeze.blogspot.com/2008/11/response-to-charlies-letter-on-january.htmlhttp://darkcheeze.blogspot.com/2008/11/response-to-charlies-letter-on-january.htmlStudents used personal blogs to write letters from their character in our role-play to a character in the book we read. This allowed them to use voice and audience in their posting. Students also were required to hyperlink their suggestions for support and coping strategies to this character in preparation for a Problem-Solution Essay.Students use blogs to hyperlink

Purpose: Blog comments for dialogic exchangeCreating blog partners to insure responsesComments: Descriptive feedbackComments: Challenge positions

Collaborative Construction of Knowledge: WikisPBWorks (http://pbworks.com)

Wikispaces (http://www.wikispaces.com)

Wetpaint (http://www.wetpaint.com)

Rhetoric and Composition wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki

Students used the experience of collaborative writing to write papers and post them to their wikishttp://watsonmontana1948.pbwiki.com/Compare+and+Contrast

http://watsonmontana1948.pbwiki.com/Compare+and+Contrast

Shared revision is easy to do and to see in the page history

We used Toni Morrison's Beloved to create a wiki where we collected information on the author and book, as well as research, notes and papers on literary theory in order to write a college-level, formal literary analysis using one of several lenses. http://tellmeyourdiamonds.pbwiki.com/Paper-Directions Hyperlinking of texts and MulitModal Writing

Purpose: Virtual collaboration: Literary Worlds sitehttp://www.literaryworlds.orgStudents engage in synchronous chat about frequently taught texts such as Brave New World, Things Fall Apart, Of Mice and Men, The Great Gatsby, and 1984.

Purpose: Creating multimodal texts: Digital comicsComic Life/BitstripsBrent Eckoff, West Jr. High: I had students to a rough storyboard of what they planned to create. Some of the speech bubbles and text boxes they wrote were both surprising, and innovative. The students then exported the Comic Life presentations as quicktime files, uploaded them to YouTube, and then embedded them on the class wiki.

Purpose: Parodying/remixing images and videosRemix America (remix historical speeches/words with contemporary events) Adbusters spoofs/parodies

Decontextualizing or defamiliarizing images

Decontextualizing or defamiliarizing images

Purpose: Creating digital poems: http://eliterature.org/1

Purpose: Share responses to images/video:VoiceThreadhttp://voicethread.com/ Audio and text commentaries of slideshowsPlace-based writingImages foster use of the descriptive details

VoiceThread: Multiple audio/written commends on same image

Purpose: Formulating arguments: online role-playSelect an issueFormulate a primary argumentChoose roles and conduct researchPost arguments on a blog or online forumStep out of roles and reflect

Using a Class Blog: UMD: Fighting Sioux Mascot

Issue: School internet policiesBlocking of websitesNRA site blocked

Administrators accessing FacebookDetermining if students are drinking Violation of the states athletic code

Using Social Networks (Ning):

Using Bubbl.us mapping to identify roles and relationships between roles

Read Cory Doctorows Little Brother17-year-old Marcus, a computer hacker, takes on the Department of Homeland Securitys attempt to control societyIssues of Internet privacy/control

Creating Avatars: taking stances on an issue

Emo GirlCritique of school Internet policies

I think the internet usagepolicies are ridiculous. Thepolicies are almostimpossible to find. I spent half an hour trying to find them and I'm a young,computer savvy person.

Strict Father cultural model: Charles HammersteinThe issue with sites like YouTube is that it is a helpful site when used correctly, but the ratio of students who would use it to the students who would abuse it would greatly favor the later of the two. R-rated sites are not ok because they usually contain information and content that may be considered offensive. The internet policies are very clear, if your grandmother would not appreciate it, then you probably shouldn't be doing those kind of things at school.

Facebook: Character profiles

Post Role-Play Reflection:Use of argumentsComfort in roleTargeted audiences/alliancesWho has power?(Reasons & strategies)Sense of potential change

Students reflection

I think it was a valuable learning experience because we actually got to argue back and forth with other people. If this had just been a writing assignment, it would have only been one-sided. You can use persuasive arguments in a paper but you cant have a back and forth conversation on it. I really felt like it helped me get into someone elses shoes and think like someone different from myself.

Purpose: Developing a Sense of Voice: PodcastingBook talksSpoken word poetryReaders theater productionsRadio showsSkype interviews

Using Garageband (Mac) to record and editRecording podcast in tracksEditing podcastsRemove unnecessary materialAlter sound levels Add musicExport to iTunes

Using Audacity (Mac & Windows) to record and edit Recording podcast in tracksEditing podcastsRemove unnecessary materialAlter sound levels Add musicExport

Using Skype to conduct podcast interviewsSkype as a free Internet phone serviceSkype can be used for Single person interviewsMultiple person conference call interviews

Purpose: Giving FeedbackAudio files as feedback to writingVoiceThread commentsVideoAnt: annotations for video productionsUsing Jing to record audio comments

Feedback to videos: VideoAnt http://ant.umn.edu Annotations specific to a clip or sceneTeacher and peer feedbackFeedback to micro-teaching videos

Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and other Digital Tools http://digitalwriting.pbworks.comLiterary Tools in the Classroom: Teaching through Critical Inquiry, Grades 5-12 http://literacytooluses.pbworks.com

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