Writing+with+Webtools

Writing with web tools connects to the:

Meaning-Centered Lens
 * Text rendering - Tools like Word (on SkyDrive), Will You Type with Me, MixedInk, Sync, OneNote, and Google Docs provide an opportunity to see how other students are making meaning of the text through collaborative text rendering.
 * Prior Knowledge - If you do a T-chart that includes vocabulary you don’t know or questions you have about the text, your students can share prior knowledge.
 * Reading, Writing, Talking - Every reading opportunity is deeper when it includes writing and talking. How about VoiceThread?
 * Corkboards like corkboardme, edistorm, and others provide an online archive and sharing of questions and comments about what you are reading. (Reading, Writing, Talking)
 * Student created assessments - can be created using Google Forms, Poll Everywhere, Survey Monkey, Zoomerang, and the others.
 * Character Sketches - can be created using Comic Strip Creators such as bitstrips and toondoos.

Social Lens (collaboration, building context, and feedback)


 * Modeling - Tildee for understanding
 * Telling stories – podcasting tools and publishing tools
 * Interactive language environments – collaborative whiteboards
 * Expanding your audience and getting feedback – wikis, blogs

Language-Based Lens
 * Authentic writing – blogs, wikis, voicethread, book creation, movie making, digital story telling
 * Purposeful activity – movie making, podcasts
 * Opportunities to present ideas orally – podcasts, digital storytelling, movie making
 * For many different audiences/purposes - podcasts, digital storytelling, movie making, blogs

Human Lens
 * Reflection – blogs
 * Knowledge of own thinking – blogs
 * Being in control of your learning – choice