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This is a presentation three teachers put together reflecting on their work developing a Digital Reading Writing Workshop in middle school classrooms.
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Digital Reading and Writing Workshop
How do we use technology to increase students’ skills,
interests, and interactions?
Wikis
• Increase in amount of writing
• Increase in revising and editing
• Increase in collaboration
• Increase in student-student feedback
Wikis: Increased revision and editing
Wikis: Increased revision and editing
Wikis: RevisingStudent
revisions from draft three to draft six– enhanced transitions and language.
Wikis: Revising
Added transitions during the writing process.
Wikis: Editing
Student editing work between drafts.
Wikis:Collaboration
Three students collaborate on a single essay
Wikis:Collaboration
Two students collaborate on a single essay
Wiki:Student-Student Feedback
6th grade wiki. These are comments in response to a fellow student’s narrative essay.
Wiki: Increase in quantity of writing
STUDENT 1 (8th Grade)
This is a sample essay from the beginning of the school year. The following screen shot from his wiki will display the growth in quantity that this student experienced throughout the year.
Wiki: Increase in quantity of writing
Student 1 (8th grader):
Here is a sample of an essay that the same student created two months later. His volume of writing greatly increased.
Wikis: Increase in quantity of writing
Blogs and Discussion Boards
• Increase critical and analytical skills
• Increase student-student discourse
• Increase student participation
Discussion BoardIncrease Participation
• The total posts for this class was 100. Only 16 students were actually present this day. (Post)
Discussion Board:Student-Student Discourse
Student Reply to the Parent Post: “I definitely think your theme was a very good answer! I do have one question though. How do you know that is the theme of the story?”
Blog: Analytical skills and student-student discourse
• Student blog and blog response on the ending in The Giver.
Journal Feature
• Allows a private setting for student work
• Allows teacher to differentiate level of questions about text
• Provides a space to free write and gain stamina
JournalDifferentiation in questions
Teacher posing a specific question to a student on the journal feature.
JournalImproving writing stamina
A student self-reflection- written in 30 minutes.