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Title: What's New? What's Good: Exploring Digital WritingDescription: Folks often speak of engagement when they talk about writing in online spaces. But is the "writing" that's occuring in these new spaces any good? Is it worth doing? Is it better than what came before? In this session, we'll discuss where and how you're writing in digital spaces, and we'll take a look at some resources created by the National Writing Project to explore what digital writing is, or isn't.Presenter: Bud HuntEmail & Other Links: budtheteacher@gmail.com NWP's Digital IS

Trying to prepare students for their future without interactive Web 2.0 technologies in school would be like trying to teach a child to swim without a swimming pool. However, it is exceptionally important for schools to carefully consider what technologies they will embrace.

What is Important1. W's (who, what, when, where, why, how)2. Main Points 3. Ideas that relate to the gist What is Not1. Supporting Details2. Examples3. Interesting Stories or Opinions4. Most Adverbs and AdjectivesBut remember anything that helps you understand what you are reading is ALWAYS IMPORTANT! Strategies for Reading Nonfiction 1.Skim 2.Adjust your reading speed/slow down when needed 3.Read and highlight only the essential information 4.Substitute easy words for more difficult ones. 5.Think about the writer and the writer's purpose6.Connect to prior knowledge7.List W’s8.List facts

Blogging and tweeting save time. Simply in writing down what you are doing and thinking, you are improving your work through self reflection. Sharing it with the world leverages this incredibly powerful hive mind that takes crappy lesson plans and ideas and spins them into pure gold often in less time than it takes to google up a halfway passable idea yourself.