Digital_Writing

=Writing in the Digital Age: Argument and Information=

Troy Hicks December 14, 2010, 8:30 - 3:00

Digital writing tools such as blogs, wikis, digital stories, and social networks can contribute to what you are already doing as you teach students how to read, write, and research argumentative and informational texts. In this session, we will explore how you can invite students to develop topics, search effectively for resources, and create both traditional academic essays with digital writing tools as well as multimedia compositions such as slideshows and digital stories. Aimed at middle school and high school English and social studies teachers, this workshop will help you engage students in the research process with web-based tools that appeal to a digital generation.


 * Teaching Writing in a Digital Age
 * Clay Shirky's TED Talk: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history
 * Troy's Digital Writing Workshop Prezi
 * The Networked Student
 * Common Core Standards - Review Writing in the ELA and Content Area Literacy Strand
 * Argumentative and informational writing
 * Evaluate sources for accuracy, bias, and credibility
 * Develop claims and counter claims
 * Establish and maintain a formal style
 * Figure out levels of complexity from sources
 * Draw upon informational texts to support your writing
 * Using technology for individual or shared writing
 * Creating Our Writers Profiles on the Wiki
 * Wikispaces Help for Teachers
 * Wikis in Plain English
 * As writers and researchers, what happened for you?
 * Create an account
 * Summarizing in a small bio
 * Creating links
 * Writing for an audience
 * Beginning of a network
 * Rethinking the Research Process
 * Resources
 * Diigo
 * Social Bookmarking in Plain English
 * Google Reader
 * RSS in Plain English
 * Google News
 * Google Squared
 * Google Docs
 * Zotero
 * Youth Voices Guides
 * Composing Multimedia
 * NWP's "21st Century Learning in Action"
 * Manipulating text
 * Wordle
 * Prezi
 * Wikipedia: Kinetic Type
 * Manipulating Images
 * Picnik
 * GIMP
 * Skitch (Mac)
 * Shutter (PC)
 * Jing (Mac and PC)
 * Creating digital movies
 * iMovie
 * Apple's Tutorials for iMovie 09
 * Windows Movie Maker
 * Digital storytelling teachers guide
 * WMM How To Guide (Microsoft)
 * Atomic Learning WMM Video Tutorials
 * Other tools:
 * CogDogRoo Wiki
 * 6 Easy Ways to Create Video Online
 * Photo Story 3
 * Jaycut
 * Copyright and Fair Use
 * Code of Best Practices in Fair Use in Media Literacy Education
 * Copyright Confusion Wiki
 * Copyright Friendly Wiki
 * Play time -- your goal in the next 45 minutes is to play with one of the tools we have explored today and add something to your profile page on the wiki demonstrating what you have learned and how you can use it in your classroom.
 * 2:45 - Show and tell

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