Digital writing

Digital WritingDigital Writing

Erik Wittmer@ewitt43

teacher207.wikispaces.com

Erik Wittmer@ewitt43

teacher207.wikispaces.com

Anyone Know this Man?

2004

Blogs, Wikis, Google Docs

Blogs

What is a blog?

Model

Paper BlogsChat - Blog Rules/Expectations

Write about a passion

Revise & Edit passion piece

Decorate card stock to fit topic

Chat - Comment Expectations

Paper Blogs

One student at each blog

Quiet

Read the Blog Thoroughly

Enjoy

Comments via post-its

Resource

Classroom Blog

Daily Happenings Blog

Students comment for HW

Students become guest blogger

Continue until comfortable

School Blog Sites

Edublogs

Kidblogs

Wordpress

Weebly

Example 2

Example 1

Comments

Families

Other Teachers

#commentsforkids

Demo

Wikis

Textbooks

Outdated

Heavy

No interaction

Falling apart

Expensive

Digital Textbooks

Wiki based

Collaborative

Embed Videos

Revise & Edit

Free

Advantages of Wikis

See Revisions

Multiple people can edit/revise

Embed videos, photos and documents

Wiki Sites

Wikispaces for Teachers

PB Wiki

Example

Demo

Google Drive

Before They Type

Create

Rename

Share

Advantages vs. Office

No automatic spell check

Comment with highlights

Automatic saving

Revert back to previous version

Advantages vs. Office

No printing

Share with parents

Digital Portfolio

No lost papers

Larger Audience

Demo

You Need to Dive In

One Foot

Two Feet

All in

Any Questions?