Digital Reading and Writing Workshop

How do we use technology to increase students’ skills,

interests, and interactions?

Wikis

• Increase in amount of writing

• Increase in revising and editing

• Increase in collaboration

• Increase in student-student feedback

Wikis: Increased revision and editing

Wikis: Increased revision and editing

Wikis: RevisingStudent

revisions from draft three to draft six– enhanced transitions and language.

Wikis: Revising

Added transitions during the writing process.

Wikis: Editing

Student editing work between drafts.

Wikis:Collaboration

Three students collaborate on a single essay

Wikis:Collaboration

Two students collaborate on a single essay

Wiki:Student-Student Feedback

6th grade wiki. These are comments in response to a fellow student’s narrative essay.

Wiki: Increase in quantity of writing

STUDENT 1 (8th Grade)

This is a sample essay from the beginning of the school year. The following screen shot from his wiki will display the growth in quantity that this student experienced throughout the year.

Wiki: Increase in quantity of writing

Student 1 (8th grader):

Here is a sample of an essay that the same student created two months later. His volume of writing greatly increased.

Wikis: Increase in quantity of writing

Blogs and Discussion Boards

• Increase critical and analytical skills

• Increase student-student discourse

• Increase student participation

Discussion BoardIncrease Participation

• The total posts for this class was 100. Only 16 students were actually present this day. (Post)

Discussion Board:Student-Student Discourse

Student Reply to the Parent Post: “I definitely think your theme was a very good answer! I do have one question though. How do you know that is the theme of the story?”

Blog: Analytical skills and student-student discourse

• Student blog and blog response on the ending in The Giver.

Journal Feature

• Allows a private setting for student work

• Allows teacher to differentiate level of questions about text

• Provides a space to free write and gain stamina

JournalDifferentiation in questions

Teacher posing a specific question to a student on the journal feature.

JournalImproving writing stamina

A student self-reflection- written in 30 minutes.