Objectives
- Connect TEKS & STAAR to writing on digital platforms
- Examine some ideas for taking student writing digital
- Explore some tech tools to facilitate digital writing
Writing Foundations
Student Blogging
Blog Possibilities
Author's Craft Minilesson
Blogging Options and Guidelines
Learning to Blog Using Paper
Common Concerns with student blogging
Commenting Guidelines (an example)
Learning to Blog Using Paper
Common Concerns with student blogging
Commenting Guidelines (an example)
Digital Citizenship
Digital Presentations
Digital Presentation Example Analysis
Titanic Timeline on Capzles MacBeth Prezi Summer by Callie (an eBook) Student Infographic + Blog Digital Poster on Tackk Leslie's Storybird Example Rehana's Powtoon Example |
Web Texts
Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek from the New York Times
Wikis
Class Wiki Example Analysis
Mrs. Lew's Class Wiki Authentic Voices Wiki School Is Cool Class Wiki Let's try it! R13 Digital Writing Wiki When a wiki becomes a website... R13 Tech Tools Cruise Wiki |
Websites
Websites as Mentor Texts
Example: NASA
Non-examples
Student Website Example Analysis
Controversy Around Assault Weapons
An Order of Flight
Kornerstone Kronicle (student created web newspaper)
Jefferson Middle School Photoshop & Animation Class site
Example: NASA
Non-examples
Student Website Example Analysis
Controversy Around Assault Weapons
An Order of Flight
Kornerstone Kronicle (student created web newspaper)
Jefferson Middle School Photoshop & Animation Class site
Audio & Video Multimedia
Podcast Exploration with embedded Soundcloud audio
Resource Bank
Blog Resources
Cool Cat Teacher The Principal of Change Blogging Through the Fourth Dimension QuadBlogging Youth Voices Student Blogging Challenge Kidblog Edublogs Blogger Wordpress Articles and Stuff
12 Reasons to Blog with Your Students How (and Why) to Use Student Blogs Crafting Digital Writing wiki (Troy Hicks) How Real Kids Create Real Infographics More than Power Point, Please What Teens are Learning from 'Serial' and other Podcasts Podcasting In and Out of the Classroom Listening to Themselves: Podcasting Takes Lessons Beyond the Classroom |
Web & Multimedia Resources
PB Works wikis Wikispaces Classroom Website Creators Weebly Wix Google Sites Infographics/Digital Posters Piktochart Easelly Tackk Thinglink Canva Pixabay Presentations Haiku Deck eBooks Storybird iBook Creator (iPad) Animation Powtoon Audio + Slides Meograph Voice Thread Adobe Voice (iPad) Screencast O Matic Educreations (iPad) Audio Soundcloud Audioboom (?) Garage Band (Apple) Video Wevideo iMovie (Apple) Windows Moviemaker |