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EngagingReluctant Writers
with
Digital Tools
Bhavneet Singh
Why you need
a digital
identity?
Explicit
Teaching
Engagement
I haven’t got anything
to write about!
I don’t know how to
write it!
I don’t know how
to make it sound
interesting?
I don’t know
what words to
use!
Why should I?
I don’t want to
write.
Ideas! Structure! Vocabulary!
Language! Purpose!
Ideas
Purpose
Audience
Role of -Writer
-Authors
-Publishers
Celebrating
Feedback
Ideas★ Give them something to write about★ Provide scaffolds - writing frameworks,
personal experiences, images, etc★ Read and reflect on good pieces of writing
Vocabulary★ Exposure
★ Use different tools
★ Teach about language features in fun way
★ Quick short activities
■ Vocabulary games
■ Sentence structure games
■ Punctuation games
■ Spelling gamesWorlde
Tagxedo
Visual
Thesaurus
Audience &
Purpose★ Different forms of communication
★ Who is the target audience?
★ Writing for a blog, movie, puppet show,
website, etc
Digital Tools
Piclits★ Images
★Vocabulary
★Use any Visual Prompts to get the
imagination going
Pinterest - Flickr
★visual prompts
★ ideas
www.literacyshed.com
www.lendmeyourliteracy.com
www.readwritethink.org
www.100wc.net
Storybird
Storyjumper
photopeach
Microsoft Moviemaker
Microsoft PhotoStory
★Build your wild self
★Create a car
★Create a monster
★Create a Superhero
Be Creative
Other fun tools
www.powtoon.com
www.voki.com
www.animoto.com
www.glogster.com (edu version)
Other Apps★ Book Creator★ Explain
Everything★ Educreations★ HaikuDeck★ Prezi★ Showbie★ AudioBoom★ Grafio Lite★ Story Buddy 2★ Adobe Voice★ My Story
★ Glogster★ iMovie★ Stopmotion★ Superimpose★ Greenscreen★ Inkflow★ Inspiration★ Popplet★ Thinkglink★ VoiceThread
★ QR Code Creator★ Montaj★ Piccollage★ Aurasma★ Voice Photo★ Sock Puppets★ Puppet Pals★ Puppets Edu★ Tellagami★ FlipGrid★ Balloon+
Publish
Website builders
★www.weebly.com
★www.wix.com
★Wordpress
★Edublogs
Feedback
★ Interactive feedback - VoiceThread
★Digital Feedback - Adobe, WOrd….
★Tweet the link to the published work
★ Invite parents and community
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