When we talk about “teaching with technology,” we typically mean teaching with Web 2.0<\/a> technologies, such as blogs, wikis, social networking sites, RSS and podcasts. These tools provide exciting possibilities for teaching writing, particularly as they enable online sharing, dialogue and collaboration. For writers, these tools can help create a broader and sharper sense of purpose and audience. For teachers, these tools can provide you with new and exciting ways to engage your students and even make them want<\/em> to write!<\/p>\n This page on teaching writing includes an overview of these tools and resources for teaching writing using a variety of these tools, as well as a section on teaching writing with Canvas (which is the course management software we use at Â鶹´«Ã½ÔÚÏß).<\/p>\n Web 2.0 browsers are tabbed, extension-rich, and mostly open source allowing the web community to build tools that enhance and accelerate the online experience.<\/p>\n Classroom 2.0<\/a> A social network for those interested in Web 2.0, social media and participative technologies in the classroom.<\/p>\n Computers and Writing 2009: Ubiquitous and Sustainable Computing at UC Davis <\/strong><\/a> Official Description: “Sessions at the Computers and Writing 2009 conference transcended traditional boundaries: among school, work, and play; among academic disciplines; between k-12 and higher education; between online and offline; and among organizers, attenders and presenters. The conference theme bridged what can sometimes be divergent context for inquiry. Critical to the vision for Computers and Writing 2009 was a sustainable perspective on lifelong computing and communication, which the conference participants achieved partly by integrating k-12 teachers as conference participants. By make k-12 as well as postsecondary education an integral part of the conference, UC Davis challenged conference participants not only to think about ubiquitous and sustainable computing in their own classrooms or workplaces, but within broader social and cultural dynamics across our lifespan and across learning institutions.”<\/p>\n Digital Research Tools (DiRT)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n “This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you’re looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool’s features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers.”<\/p>\n The Machine is Us\/ing Us<\/strong><\/a> (Final Version)<\/strong> (Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State University) Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis and other Digital Tools companion website<\/strong><\/a> (Richard Beach, Chris Anson, Lee-Ann Breuch, and Thom Swiss) Top 100 Tools for Learning 2015<\/strong><\/a> (Jane Hart, Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies) Web 2.0 Tutorial<\/strong><\/a> Writing and Web 2.0<\/strong><\/a> (Keith Hoffman) Overview of Blogging<\/strong><\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n Instant messaging, voice and video chat tools allow people to connect in real time over the internet. <\/a><\/p>\n Microblogging is a combination of blogging with a 200-character limit and social networking.<\/p>\n Tumblr<\/strong><\/a> Twitter<\/strong><\/a> Twitter in Plain English<\/strong><\/a> (Commoncraft<\/a>) Technology has brought us new and engaging ways to “brainstorm.” Here are a few tools that can help your students brainstorm:<\/p>\n bubbl.us<\/strong><\/a> FacilitatePro<\/strong><\/a> gliffy<\/a> Podcasts are a series of audio or video digital files that are released periodically and made available for listening and downloading. How can you use podcasts to help teach writing? How can you create podcasts on writing to help your students? These resources will provide you with answers to these questions.<\/p>\n How to Record, Edit and Promote a Podcast<\/strong><\/a> (techsoup.org) Podcasting in Plain English<\/strong><\/a> (Commoncraft<\/a>) <\/a><\/p>\n RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a tool for publishing or monitoring frequently updated content such as blogs and news headlines.<\/p>\n RSS Overview<\/a> RSS for Education Description<\/a> RssPublisher<\/a> Selective list of RSS readers<\/strong> \u2013 NOTE: Many of the newer browsers have RSS capability built in.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Social bookmarking is a way Internet users can store, organize, search and share the pages they bookmark with others. The term was coined by social bookmarking company Delicious, which pioneered the concept of online tagging that is the core of social bookmarking.<\/p>\n Selective list of social bookmarking tools<\/strong><\/p>\n Social Bookmarking<\/strong><\/a> Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging<\/strong><\/a> A service that brings together an online community of people who share similar interests.<\/p>\n Social Networking in Plain English<\/strong><\/a> (Commoncraft<\/a>) Selective List of Social Networking Sites<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n How can you find videos that will help you teach writing? Here are some useful websites.<\/p>\n Google Videos<\/strong><\/a> YouTube<\/strong><\/a> A wiki is a website that enables group collaboration. Anyone can add and edit the content (note that you can create “private” wikis that are only available to specific users–e.g., to a group of students).<\/p>\n Colbert Vs. Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a> (From Comedy Central\u2019s “Colbert Report” on July 30, 2006) Selective List of Wiki Applications<\/strong><\/p>\n Wikis in Plain English<\/strong><\/a> (Commoncraft<\/a>) OVERVIEW When we talk about “teaching with technology,” we typically mean teaching with Web 2.0 technologies, such as blogs, wikis, social networking sites, RSS and podcasts. These tools provide exciting possibilities for teaching writing, particularly as they enable online sharing, dialogue and collaboration. 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\nPosted on YouTube: March 08, 2007 | length: 4:34
\nNow considered the classic video on the concept of “web 2.0.” A must see for anyone interested in understanding web 2.0.<\/p>\n
\nThis companion website for the book Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and other Digital Tools<\/em> published December 2008 includes exhaustive lists of links to Web 2.0 technologies of use in the writing classroom. For example “Chapter Two: Using digital writing tools for collecting, connecting, and organizing information” includes links to pages on online whiteboards, tools for collecting, organizing and note-taking digital text, tagging, and polling. Each page includes lists of links to Web 2.0 tools in these categories. Because it is a companion website, the annotations to the links are in the book and not online. For that commentary, one needs to purchase the book.<\/p>\n
\nA list of online tools submitted by educational professionals. Each tool is linked to a page that explains the tool and gives its URL, cost, availability and previous rankings. It also includes comments from the learning professionals who selected the tool as one of their top 10. This is a great place to survey the online tools educators are using. For a full list of the 3000+ tools for formal and informal learning divided into 25 main categories visit the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies<\/a> website.<\/p>\n
\nWritten with educators in mind, this wiki provides a nice definition of web 2.0 with explanations and resource links for key categories of web 2.0 tools used by educators such as social bookmarks<\/a>, blogs<\/a> and wikis<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nPosted: May 8, 2007 | length: 52:00
\nThis is presentation Keith Hoffman gave on writing and Web 2.0 at the University of Wisconsin. This podcast is from the series I’d Rather Be Writing: Exploring Technical Writing Trends and Innovations <\/em><\/a>by Tom Johnson, who podcasts about the latest trends in technical communication through interviews with tech writing luminaries around the world.
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\nA page that provides an overview of the concept of blogging, its uses in education, what blogging does for students and lots of links to blogging resources in education.<\/p>\nBlog Search Engines<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Blogging Tools<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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INSTANT MESSAGES, VOICE AND VIDEO CHAT<\/h2>\n
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MICROBLOGS<\/h2>\n
\nAllows you to share text, photos, links, music and videos from your browser, phone or email.<\/p>\n
\nA service that allows people to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent text answers to one simple question: “What are you doing?”<\/p>\n
\nRelease date: March 5, 2008 | length: 2:23
\nDescription: A short video that explains Twitter and microblogging. Commoncraft also has a video on Twitter Search in Plain English<\/a>.
\n<\/a><\/p>\nMINDMAPPING AND BRAINSTORMING<\/h2>\n
\nA free web-based brainstorming application that lets you create and share colorful mind maps<\/p>\n
\n“Type your idea into an electronic notepad and post it to the flip chart along with the ideas contributed by everyone else. Add as many new items as you want or build on existing ones. Ideas can include links to Web sites, text, data or image files, or e-mail accounts. All this with no user training and just a web browser.”<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>“Create professional-quality flowcharts, Org charts, UML diagrams, Network diagrams, Wireframes, Technical drawings and more.”
\n<\/a><\/p>\nPODCASTING<\/h2>\n
\nThis is written for nonprofit organizations, but the information is helpful to anyone–including educators–seeking to create their own podcasts.<\/p>\n
\nRelease Date: April 21, 2008 | length 3:00
\nAn introduction to podcasting in Commoncraft\u2019s short and minimalistic animation video style.<\/p>\nTools for Making Audio Podcasts<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Locations for Finding, Downloading, and Listening to Podcasts<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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REALLY SIMPLE SYNDICATION (RSS)<\/h2>\n
\n<\/strong>A general overview that explains the purpose and uses for RSS (really simple syndication) feeds<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Powerpoint slides from a presentation by Leonard Stern explaining RSS and its uses in education. Though a bit dated (published in 2006), it does provide a good survey of RSS uses in education.<\/p>\n
\n“Create, edit and publish your own RSS feeds with RSS publisher.”<\/p>\n\n
SOCIAL BOOKMARKING<\/h2>\n
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\nAn article explaining social bookmarking and its common uses and benefits.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nSOCIAL NETWORKING<\/h2>\n
\nRelease Date: June 27, 2007 | length: 1:53
\nA short introduction to the concept of social networking.<\/p>\n\n
VIDEOS<\/h2>\n
\nGoogle Videos is an index of videos available for viewing on the web from personal videos to TV shows, movie clips, music videos, and documentaries.<\/p>\n
\nA subsidiary of Google, this is a website where users can upload and share videos.
\n<\/a><\/p>\nWIKIS<\/h2>\n
\nPosted on YouTube by powmadeak47 on January 30, 2007 | length: 3:48
\nThis video clip humorously exploits the credibility concerns regarding information posted on the massive online wiki encyclopedia Wikipedia.<\/p>\n\n
\nRelease Date: May 29, 2007 | length: 3:34
\n“A short introduction to wikis that illustrates how they can be used to organize a group’s information, in this case, for a camping trip.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"