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Reflections on and resources for digital writing and digital writing instruction.

Leanne Gosey, a masters student in reading, reflects on writing instruction, technology integration, and teaching. Thoughtful stuff. Recommended to other students, beginning teachers, and teacher educators.

Looks like great potential to support tech-supported process writing approaches. Free for teacher and up to 40 students.

This is great site, especially boys, who are most interested in graphic novel and comic type reading and writing. Here, kids can write and create their own comic styled writing and illustrations!

This is a cool site. You can make a bookl too! Free account.

BigUniverse.com is an online tool that has both fiction and non fiction texts and picture books for pre-k to 8th grade. Students can also write their own stories and take quizzes on books they have read!

One of the easier free writing/publishing websites I've found.

Probably one of the coolest and easiest story starter sites I have seen for grades k-6!! This is like a slot machine that you see at a casino. It has different sections on the slot machine depending on your grade level. The first slot being the genre, the second slot is a describing word for the subject, the third slot is the subject, and the last slot describes what the subject is doing or does. For example, one that I just got on there was: "Write a postcard from a balding carnival clown who explores a newly discovered planet." From here the kids can change the individual slot if they want to. Once they finish they click next and can pick the type of format (newsletter, letter, postcard, and notebook). Once that is selected they can type their story on the format they selected. If they want to write they can just pick a format and print a blank page. Or, you don't even have to use any format and can do a whole class prompt and they write on paper or just type in a word document. I showed my students the machine today and they were very interested in trying it during their writing station. It is too easy to not try- so I am going to give it a shot next week!! I think it is very creative and can make some very silly stories!

Reading, writing and spelling and grammar skills can help you tell a story, share your ideas, write a letter and make sense of instructions. We use them everyday and they help us understand each other.

Cool website for co-authoring. Each author separate colors, simultaneous chat, save, email, print...

This is a great site- I use it a lot in my classroom! We will be talking about Dr. Seuss very soon- and I found Justin B. to tell the story of Green Eggs and Ham! Very similar to videos you would find on youtube- but you can use this is your classroom!

This website has it all and is a super resource. You can find everything from Assistive technology videos to blogs to project based learning, strategies, and more. Tons of literacy rich ideas, tips, strategies!

Dana, a master's student in my class, had us create 6-word memoirs with the poetry section of Storybird.com and then import the final product into Padlet.com where they can be shared in a variety of ways.

Another interesting article on ways writers are exploring Twitter as an authoring medium.

Twitter and writing instruction ideas.

This is the follow up post to the theoretical Wondering About Hyperlinked Writing. The post ended with Now...on from the wondering, theory and resources...to the practice in the classroom. Ready to bring hyperlinked writing (and reading) as an important genre into the classroom?

Lots of resources for English teachers seeking ideas for tech supports for English language arts. Not focused on kids with disabilities, but lots of teaching ideas, links, and resources.

Clever use of technology to create group "cards," thank you's, congrats...

2017 Closing the Gap Preconference Workshop offerings. Titles, abstracts, presenters.

This app is great for mid/upper elementary students- especially boys! Students can create their own comics, begin with a story starter, or even author a ready-made comic illustration!

Flickr Storm is similar to FlickrCC. The kids can search, click on a thumbnail and the photo comes up on the right. If you let the students click on the advanced search feature, it will allow them to limit their searches to Non-Commercial and Share Alike photos. An organization feature of Flickr storm is the "Add to Tray." You can add several photos to your tray and then when you open your tray, all the photos are there in large-sized format. It is like saving the pictures to a file, but instead it stays on the website. Anything like this website is good to begin brainstorming for writing.

This is a cool site I found where you can use any picture and add words to it! Play around with it and see what all you can create! This could be used in so many ways! Enjoy!