CCJH Language Arts

Pencamp is a simple platform for quickly publishing your writing. To get started writing and publishing with Pencamp just enter a name for your page and enter specify a password for editing then start writing. Pencamp is not a blogging platform it's a platform for publishing an informational article or story about a specific topic

Scriffon is a simple service for writing and publishing online. Scriffon isn't a blogging platform, it's a writing platform

Pen.io is a simple blogging service that you can start using in a minute or less. To use Pen.io just head to the site, name your page, and select a password for editing.

Boom Writer provides a "starter chapter" for a story and students continue the story by writing additional chapters. The chapters submitted (anonymously) by students are voted on and the chapters receiving the most votes make it into a book that students, teachers, and parents can choose to have published by Boom Writer.

Hyperlinked writing is more than citing your sources, it is a direct manifestation of writing for an audience. A quick check-in with my Common Core Guru, Mike Fisher, author of “Cure for the Common Core“, told me that I was on the right track.  He said: You are actually addressing several capacities in what you’re describing:  Capacity 3: Students respond to varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline. Capacity 5: They value evidence. (Citations are in this realm, along with curation, and it is highly connected to number 6…) Capacity 6: They use technology and digital media strategically and capably. It shows the intent to guide the reader to: where the author has been his/her train of thought providing a framework and context of the content background. choices where to learn more

Are you familiar with “Choose Your Own Adventure Books“? How great would it be to allow students to map out such a story and link the choices on a mind map showing the links, flow and connections between choices. What if they were to choose to write their own”choice story” with different plots and outcomes according to the links embedded in the text? Students could use mind mapping apps again to design a flowchart of their story.