1. DIGITAL WRITING, THE COMMON CORE AND A TRADITIONAL WRITING WORKSHOP
Cathy Danahy and Liz Walker
Allendale Public Schools
EdScape October 19, 2013

2. Our Goals today
Share our views on digital writing and digital publishing.
Discuss how we incorporate digital writing into our writing workshops.
Give you three examples of student published digital writing.

3. Digital Literacy and the Common Core

4. CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. CCRA. R
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.7 INTEGRATE AND EVALUATE CONTENT PRESENTED IN DIVERSE MEDIA AND FORMATS, INCLUDING VISUALLY AND QUANTITATIVELY, AS WELL AS IN WORDS

5. CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. CCRA. W
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.6 USE TECHNOLOGY, INCLUDING THE INTERNET, TO PRODUCE AND PUBLISH WRITING AND TO INTERACT AND COLLABORATE WITH OTHERS.

6. CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. CCRA. W
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.9 DRAW EVIDENCE FROM LITERARY OR INFORMATIONAL TEXTS TO SUPPORT ANALYSIS, REFLECTION, AND RESEARCH.

7. CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. CCRA. SL
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.2 INTEGRATE AND EVALUATE INFORMATION PRESENTED IN DIVERSE MEDIA AND FORMATS, INCLUDING VISUALLY, QUANTITATIVELY, AND ORALLY.

8. CCSS. ELA-LITERACY. CCRA. SL
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.5 MAKE STRATEGIC USE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND VISUAL DISPLAYS OF DATA TO EXPRESS INFORMATION AND ENHANCE UNDERSTANDING OF PRESENTATIONS.

9. A WRITING WORKSHOP APPROACH TO TEACHING WRITING
Process writing
Units of study organized around a genre with skills and strategies embedded in the unit
Address three stands of the CCS – Narrative, Informational, Opinion (K-5)/Argument (6-8)
Bringing one piece to publication
** Turn a print piece into a digitally published piece

10. THE ROLE OF THE AUDIENCE AND AUTHOR’S PURPOSE
Essential skill in 21st century writing
Everyone can be a published author
We new ways to think about this skill: how to we adjust what we write for audience and purpose?

11. With digital technology and, especially Web 2.0, it seems, writers are *everywhere*—on bulletin boards and in chat rooms and in s and in text messages and on blogs responding to news reports and, indeed, reporting the news themselves as I-reporters. Such writing is what Deborah Brandt has called self-sponsored writing: a writing that belongs to the writer, not to an institution, with the result that people—students, senior citizens, employees, volunteers, family members, sensible and non-sensible people alike—want to compose and do—on the page and on the screen and on the network—to each other. Opportunities for composing abound—on MySpace, Twitter and Facebook and Googledocs and multiple blogs and platforms—and on national media sites, where writers upload photos and descriptions, videos and personal accounts, where they are both recipients and creators of our news. In much of this new composing, we are writing to share, yes; to encourage dialogue, perhaps; but mostly, I think, to participate. In fact, in looking at all this composing, we might say that one of the biggest changes is the role of audience: writers are everywhere, yes, but so too are audiences.

12. No longer this simple…

13. WRITING IS MORE THAN JUST WORDS
Today we can communicate a message in words, images, sound, video, motion
Across platforms

14. Essential skills of the 21st century writer.
WE CAN TAKE A PRINT PIECE FROM WRITING WORKSHOP UNITS AND TURN IT INTO A DIGITAL PIECE
When we do this we will…
Teach students to consider their audience
Define a purpose
Adjusts the tone
Make good decisions about language
Structure a piece across platforms
Essential skills of the 21st century writer.

15. Example Number One
Grade: Second Unit of Study: Readers can respond to reading by writing an book review Opinion Writing, Book Reviews

16. Voicing over Scanned images to produce a ShowMe presentation

17. Yes, even 2nd graders can navigate ipads

18. Example Number Two
Grade: Fourth Unit of Study: Writing About Our Ideas Personal Essay

19. Using Boxes and Bullets to write Blog Posts

20. Define the genre

21. Immersion – reading like a writer

22. Noticing Comments

23. Teaching How to Comment

24. Teaching How to Comment Off Line First

25. 21st Century Digital Citizenship

26. How to Write a Blog Post

27. How to Write a Blog Post

28. Blog post organizer

29. Kidsblog
“Text Talking”

30. Example Number Three: Writing to Make a Difference
Digitally published sources are used for research
Teachers can screen cast skills to flip classroom
Teacher-assigned digital text sets
Students learn how to safely navigate the internet and research to find reliable sources to add to text set

31. WRITING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Investigative print article
Editorial
Public Service Announcement

34. Screen Casting Example 1 Example 2
Camtasia (Install a free trial for 30 days!) or Jing, a free, lightweight option

35. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
Read digitally by watching examples
Determine audience, purpose and claim
Select most powerful quotes and facts from research
How will you present your facts?
How will you evoke emotions from viewers? (Images, music)
Logistics

39. Some more ideas to consider…
Grade 7: Narrative Nonfiction books with Social Studies Teacher and Documentary short films
Grade 1: “How to” procedural writing and YouTube or Vimeo Videos
Grade 6: Historical Fiction Stories and Book Trailers