Because Digital Writing Matters

Week #2

Chapter 4It's multimodal so how do I assess it?

Multimodal Is Complex

“...computers have dramatically expanded options for writers and have probably made writing, and learning to write, more complex” (p. 21). 

And it certainly hasn't made the job of assessing any easier for the teacher!

Between Modes: Assessing Student New Media Compositions by Madeleine Sorapure in   www.digitalis.nwp.org

but technology can help too...(p. 110-112)

1. Collect extended writing over time  (blogs, wikis, Google docs)

2. Help students write in multiple genreso different digital tools for different audienceso personal memoir = digital story

 3. Appropriate rubrics continue to evolve (NWP Multimodal 2011)

4. Writing across content areas (see #2 & my hist. fiction)

5. Gives us avenues for teacher-student conversation about the writing.

Chapter 4 & Chapter 3

Because Digital Writing Matters

Define your goals and criteria for the project

Use the “...approach that focuses assessment on how effectively the project addresses a specific audience to achieve a specific purpose.” 

Digital writing...”does not mean that teachers must entirely change what they know and do in their classrooms; rather, teachers must explore how their strengths transfer to different tools and emerging genres” (p. 14).  Paula added this 1/12/2012

Define your goals and criteria for the project

-- Ch 4 What goals/standards you want to achieve? 

-- Ch 4 What project will produce the desired

achievement?  

-- Ch 3 What digital tools support the goals?

Technology and Standards

p 94... 

"Teaching writing is more than just the technical act of saving a document on a computer ... more than just being able to...put words down in a certain order." 

Think about what it means to be "literate in a digital world." Techology literacy = 21st Century Skills = digital literacies = technology expectations 

Technology and Standards

Technology Literacy for Michigan defined: p 96

"the ability to responsibly use appropriate technology to communicate, solve problems, and access, manage, integrate, evaluate and create information to improve learning in all subject areas and to acquire lifelong knowledge and skills in the 21st Century."

Technology and Standards

"Habits of mind" & activities for digital writerp 100- 1021. Creativity & Originality2. Collaboration3. Management & Leadership4. Evaluation & Decision Making5. Diversity6. Articulation - clarify, define, form, frame...7. Observation & Inquiry

Technology and Standardsp 100- 102

8. Critical thinking & Problem Solving9. Communication in Rhetorical Settings    -audience, perception, POV, purpose, connect...10. Knowledge Making11. Information Literacy12. Personal Habits of Mind, eg.    -accountable, accurate, efficient, flexible...13. Remix Culture (re-create from media)    - amplify, attribute, engage, modify, publish...

MI High School CEs

Writing Standard

1. Write, speak & create artistic expression

2. Use formal, stylistic, content, and mechanical conventions in variety of genres

3. ..produce polished written & multimedia work... 

 Interwoven Technology

1. Blog, Web Pages

2.  ...in multimedia presentations

3. Use tech tools: word processing, presentation & multimedia software

Go to e-mail click the link to google docs - check Core

Standards - File save 

Go to Diipo - click on the Week 2 Resource page for

Standards links

15 min exploration & Blog your content area 

In Diipo - click on Blogs - enter the content area/standard skill area you would like to work on

15 min exploration & Blog your Content Area 

Assessment - meet the writing goal?

Digital records in portfolios.... ideal, but realistically....

4- Part "Knowledge" Framework, (Yancey, 2009) - p 109

1. Self-Knowledge - individual writer's practice knowledge - baseline skill comparison and connection to topic

2. Content Knowledge - does writer know subject matter

3. Task Knowledge - use of process, strategy & voice

4. Judgement - ability to use self-reflection - best, weakest, why  -- (Reflective Knowledge)

Assessment in Online Web 2.0 Tools7 min -Assessment for Learning: Rick Stiggins Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFGwg9vGJc&feature=player_embedded#at=20

p 112 -- Publish to the world:  

 blogs, web pages, wiki entries, social tools     Study other people's digital writing -- Inquiry process, evaluate these postings by comparison and what people comment about

Take a Break - 6:45 - 6:50 min

Return for Webquests - exploration...    - Built-in Assessments     Part II - Digital Ecologies - online tools and other considerations in the classroom    

 Digital Ecologies - Do you have them?Chapter 3

Think about your Classroom: 

General environment: academic, social, work (duties)**********

Digital classroom environment (ecology):        healthy & sustainable 

-- what do you have/use? -- what would you like to have/use? 

 

 Digital Ecologies - Do you have them?

Physical space: What is your room like? Dream on......Texas Tech U. Collaborative Learning PodsTechnology infrastructure: What hardware/software/access do you have? For example,

--Book review blog (Diipo doc) & video writers "interview": (Rachel Adams)

Legal, Ethical, Policy: "Rules of the Road"    Ethical - privacy, plagiarism, citation of works used    Policy - acceptable use of all, set by institutions    Legal - ......

 Digital Media & Legal UseDigital Media

   music   spoken audio   pictures   video   graphics   animations   textual content

Digital RightsCopyright - need permission, usually pay royaltyFair Use- guidelines for educational use: no web posts; limited useCreative Commons - 6 designations of free use & modification - CC searchhttp://creativecommons.org/ M: Drive > Tech> How To> Digital Media Public Domain 70+ yrs old

Search Google Advanced for CC

 

 Pick Your Tool To Match the Standard

Goal - Standard

search standards... posted on Google docs - share in e-mail link

Possible Tools 

 continue tool exploration

Marilyn Western -- "Awesome Free Digital Story Tools"correlated tools with goals & gmail "hack" to register students   - handout posted on Diipo

Blooms Digital Taxonomy -- new taxonomy with correlated digital skills 

Blooms Digital Taxonomy 

 

https://webbkids.wikispaces.com/Resources

 Digital Ecologies - Do you have them?

Classroom environment: academic, social, work (duties)

Digital environment (ecology): healthy & sustainable 

-- what digital environments do you use? -- what digital environments would you like to use? 

  Think about YOUR ecology....

Explore - Choose Project Tool (s)

Go to your Google Docs - from last week:  

- Continue to use the Web20-Tools and Sites Accounts Log

- Download the More Digital Tools Appendix -- updated for week 3