Written by Troy Hicks

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The Digital Writing Workshop

• Written by Troy Hicks
• Presentation by Amanda Mikrut, Lindsey Victor,
  Kevin Harris

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Your Experiences

• What are some ways that you could use technology
  in a writing workshop?
• Have you seen any technology used?
• What are some benefits that including technology
  would have in a writing workshop?
• Drawbacks?

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Overall Benefits

• Creates new challenges and opportunities
• Allows for more feedback for each student
• Work goes beyond classroom
• Keeps track of all of your work
• Benefits diverse learners
• Easier way for teacher to track progress

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MAPS

• M- Mode
• M- Media
• A- Audience
• P- Purpose
• S- Situation for the Writer
• S-Situation of the Writing

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Mode

• Genre of the text
• Paragraphing (Print)
• Time (Video)

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Media

• The way the text is presented
• Paper with print or handwriting (Print)
• TV, DVD, Web-Based Sharing (Video)

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Audience

• Those most likely to receive the work
• Mostly in class publication (Print)
• Public performance or digital sharing (Video)

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Purpose

• What the writer wants to accomplish
• Thesis statement (Print)
• Implicit rather than overt (Video)

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Situation for the Writer

• Preference, strengths, weaknesses
• Formal vs. Informal (Print)
• Type of media (Video)

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Situation of the Writing

• Demands, deadlines, collaboration partners
• Meeting academic guidelines while being creative
  and original (Print)
• Technology skills (Video

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Blogs

• Create a single location for authors work
• Ability to interact with others
• Conferring outside of classroom
• Used for posting
• Rough drafts, final drafts, responses, etc.

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Blogs

• Examples
• Edublogs edublogs.org
• Class Blogmeister classblogmeister.com
• Free!
• Teachers can access more student work than in
  classroom

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Social Bookmarking

• Save links to web pages that we want to remember
  and share
• Take your favorite websites with you
• www.diigo.com
• Use in Class
• Students are constantly moving between computers
• Easy to cite sources
• Teachers can set up to deliver helpful links
• Group inquiry projects

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Podcasts

• Blending voice, music, and sounds
• MP3/MP4
• Distributed through RSS feeds or MP3 players
• http//www.judgememorial.com/content/2011/01/audac
  ity-help
• http//thisibelieve.org/

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Podcasts

• Benefits students who struggle with reading
• Publication outside the classroom walls
• Learn textured composition

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Wikis

• Anyone can edit
• Saves work each time you edit
• Multiple ways for feedback
• Quick and easy editing and conferring

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Wikis

• Examples
• Wikispaces wikispaces.com
• Wetpaint wetpaint.com
• Pbworks pbworks.com
• Shows history
• Easy access outside of classroom
• Collaborative writing

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Digital Storytelling

• Combines voice, video, image and text
• http//50ways.wikispaces.com/50Dominoes
• http//www.storycenter.org/stories/
• Taps into existing visual, technological, and
  writing skills

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RSS

• Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary
• Allows readers to subscribe to web content like a
  magazine
• Set up feed reader- websites send you information
  instead of having to search for it
• www.google.com/reader

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RSS Continued

• Use in Class
• Students can chose topics that interest them
• Silent reading time
• Can include social networks, blogs, news, etc.
• Builds students skills as researchers and peer
  responders
• Students can see expectations for quality writing
  in various genres
• Continual pursuing of topics

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Digital Publications

• Digital Portfolio
• Blogfolio
• Digital Anthology
• Audio Anthology

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Assessments within the Digital Writing Workshop

• What are we assessing?
• The tools themselves, should not be the focus of
  the assessment. (Hicks 104)
• When students are writing for real audiences and
  purposes, there are real reactions and
  consequences for them as writers. (Hicks 107)

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Formative Assessments

• Writers discuss the process
• In digital writing- drafts upon drafts
• Use MAPS
• Commenting on drafts
• Holding conferences
• All happens during the process

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Summative Assessment

• After the process
• Use the 6 traits
• Online portfolios
• Not judging one piece
• Its the letter grade on final
• We need to account for both the process and the
  product

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Conclusions Creating a Digital Writing Workshop

• Regardless of how digital we think our students
  are, they do not necessarily possess the
  capacities that make them critical and creative
  writers.
• Logistical concerns
• Physical space

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Applying to our Blogs

• How did you choose the three clips that you put
  into our class blog?
• How might they benefit other readers of the blog?