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 * Writing with the Web: Tips and Ideas for all Levels **

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**Links/files mentioned or used during this session:**
[|TeachersFirst Writer's Workshop]K-6 Approaches to teaching writing in K-6, VERY popular!
 * [|TeachersFirst]**

Tools for prewriting, graphic organizers, brainstorming, idea bins, and research

 * [|TeachersFirst collection of resources for graphic organizers] **


 * Printable graphic organizers (from the LONG list in the collection above) **
 * [|25 Language Arts Graphic Organizers]
 * [|Graphic Organizers from EduPlace] elementary printables
 * [|Freeology] browse through pages of choices by the page numbers


 * Create your own graphic organizers: **
 * **[|Draw.io]**
 * [|Popplet]  also has a free app
 * [|Text 2 Mindmap] (no membership required)
 * [|Mindmeister] (membership required)
 * [|MORE Edge tools for mindmaps/ concept maps]


 * [|TeachersFirst collection of resources for brainstorming] **


 * Idea Bins: spaces to collect ideas, snippets of text, links, quotes, and more -- in a sort of writer’s notebook. **
 * [|**Evernote**](a Device Agnostic Tool) Best for students 13+ [|Here] is a shared page from an Evernote collection of ideas for a trip to Ireland.
 * [|LooseLeaves] (no membership) For students to collect writing snippets and ideas try They need to be able to COPY a url . Gr 7+
 * [|Folderboy] highly organized idea bin; no membership to start, but needed to save and return
 * [|750 Words] a private place to write your thoughts, clear your head, scrawl a rant, or brainstorm ideas
 * Online sticky note tools as idea bins **
 * [|TeachersFirst Edge tools for sticky notes and walls]
 * [|LinoIt] EZ to share and add more stickies! [|Here is a sample “idea bin”] used preparing for a conference presentation.
 * [|Primary Wall](no membership to get started- just to save) Can color code your notes. Management tip: Circulate as students begin work to SAVE their screens to your class account, created in advance with your teacher email.
 * [|Scrumblr] (start w/o membership, just COPY the url ! )
 * [|Padlet] <span class="gmw_"> Once known as <span class="gm_ gm_dda9db9a-b7bb-049f-11bf-a5460e572aa9 gm-spell">Wallwisher (POPULAR Device agnostic tool with apps available for Android and iOS)


 * Visual prewriting – and collaboration **
 * [|Board800](use a teacher account)
 * [|TeachersFirst's Edge tools for drawing/whiteboards]


 * Research Tools: **
 * <span class="gm_ gm_dd7df3be-8a3b-5c44-c860-ebfe2887a9a6 gm-spell">[|Ouiwrite] Read this review carefully, especially the CLASSROOM info!
 * <span class="gm_ gm_c6ffec35-041c-d09e-24bd-051308f69bc1 gm-spell">[|Bibme] <span class="gmw_"> to collect bibliographic information during research.
 * [|Plagtracker]

**Templates --** not shared in session, but great for students who need extra help getting started OR for teachers to structure writing tasks [|Google Docs templates for teachers and students] (must be logged in to your Google membership to open this collection)

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= Ready to Write =
 * Tools and resources for writing, revising, and collaborating on writing **


 * Word Choice: Create and share Word clouds **
 * <span class="gm_ gm_31e868c4-cba3-753e-d26d-bb7957c2fd02 gm-spell">[|Worditout] (requires email to save) (paste in passage from my blog- have it ready)
 * [|Word Clouds for Kids] (from ABCYa) simpler for younger students
 * [|Wordle] (Mac users may have to enable JAVA)
 * <span class="gm_ gm_36a68fca-72e8-5f38-3b38-7932e7981b93 gm-spell">[|Tagcrowd] (can save the cloud as a printable pdf)


 * Sentences or word order **
 * [|Virtual Sentence Board] for early elementary


 * Vocabulary **
 * [|Big Huge Thesaurus]
 * <span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">[|Visuwords graphical dictionary] includes adult vocabulary
 * <span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">[|Membean Word Maps]


 * Revising **
 * [|Telescopic text] (adding detail)
 * [|LiveTyping]


 * Collaboration for feedback and revision **
 * Text collaboration/commenting: **
 * [|Primary Pad]
 * [|Google Docs/Drive]
 * [|121Writing] give spoken feedback
 * [|Pen.io] no membership required to collaborate
 * [|Nanoongo] class collaboration; set up by teacher for younger kids
 * [|Draft] Allows people to make collaborative changes to text like Google docs, but you choose to accept or reject suggested changes made by others
 * [|Hackpad] live collaboration – including mobile devices, shared by <span class="gm_ gm_14b8774b-1030-1b8f-63cf-9379fb8787a4 gm-spell">url (requires email reg)


 * Multimedia collaboration **
 * <span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">[|Mural.ly] good for individual or group IDEA BIN or for collaboration on an actual multimedia product. Requires an account, but you could make a whole class account. Has iOS app.
 * [|EDGE collection of tools for multimedia] <span class="gmw_">: CHECK INFO AT END OF REVIEWS for those that mention capability for collaboration.

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Grammar and Conventions

 * [|TeachersFirst reviewed resources for “grammar”] ** a LARGE collection
 * [|TeachersFirst reviewed resources for “punctuation”]**
 * [|TeachersFirst reviewed resources for “sentences”]**
 * TeachersFirst reviewed resources for “proofreading”**

**Notables**:
 * [|Grammar Girl]
 * [|CREEP]
 * [|Writing Felonies]
 * [|No Red Ink]
 * [|Extreme Sentence Surgeon]
 * [|40+ Tips]
 * [|Apostrophe Protection Society] –see EXAMPLES!

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Publishing (and responding to your audience)
**Blogs -** learn about them at TeachersFirst's [|Blog Basics for the Classroom] **Wikis -** learn about them at TeachersFirst's [|Wiki Walk-through]


 * Tools to make instant web sites or blogs **
 * <span class="gm_ gm_353c7369-020b-e48e-da83-2bb158290d1b gm-spell">[|Tackk]
 * <span class="gm_ gm_ab7a93b3-5919-d8e1-dc4e-c81532bf9302 gm-spell">[|Instablogg]
 * [|Check this]


 * Creating online books or eBooks **
 * <span class="gm_ gm_2d73dec1-cd10-830d-14f5-0f4dc54e4073 gm-spell">[|Bookemon] Includes EduCenter area. See sample online book [|here]
 * <span class="gmw_">[|Page] <span class="gm_ gm_e02c8a83-76ed-1918-cabd-7c56d5db660b gm-spell">[|Flipflap]
 * <span class="gm_ gm_d5b9fa12-cd45-ac77-2ba1-08a514088b67 gm-spell">[|Mixbook]
 * <span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">[|Widbook] for older kids
 * [|BiteSlide] (multimedia)


 * Writers’ sharing sites and communities **
 * [|Write It]
 * <span class="gm_ gm_25e9c1bb-ac07-2ae6-49f9-10debbc55372 gm-spell">[|Smories] (a community for kids)


 * More Digital Storytelling tools ("Storytelling" does NOT have to mean fiction!) **
 * [|Gone Google Story Builder] Collaborative story builder
 * [|Inklewriter] Create interactive, choose your own adventure ("branching") style stories
 * [|TeachersFirst Edge REVIEWED Digital Storytelling tools] (ZILLIONS!)

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Ideas to explore or think about
> //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"Whereas publishing was once the end point in the writing process, it is now a midpoint, the place where the interaction with readers and subsequent conversations begin through comments on or revisions and linking." //
 * On Writing Process, digital writing, CCSS:**
 * [|Digital Is] from the National Writing Project
 * [|Social learning and student writing: A delicate teaching dance.] Blog post on improving student writing in social learning spaces
 * <span class="gmw_">[|The New Writing Pedagogy] (article by Angela Pascopella and Will Richardson) On a new model for writing: writing for AUDIENCES, multi-modal writing, Including this idea:
 * [|Read Write Think] Outstanding writing resources from IRA and NCTM
 * [|Literacy Design Collaborative] Useful templates for writing across the curriculum in Common Core
 * <span class="gmw_">[|Common Core standards- Writing (intro)]Click the <span class="gm_ gm_40f1393e-ed7b-c4e3-198c-75cfee4ee995 gm-spell">garde level you want under writing in the left sidebar.


 * Unexpected/unusual approaches for writing** (a few ideas for gifted or simply for a new angle)
 * [|Awesome Foursome: Writing ideas with a twist]
 * [|Docs Demo: Master's Edition] Read the Classroom ideas!
 * [|I Write Like] See classroom ideas> Which famous writer are you like?
 * [|Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Cree] Experience the true story of a deadly avalanche and its aftermath through this 2013 Pulitzer Prize winning multimedia feature article. A powerful example of digital writing!
 * [|Thought Questions] Open-ended questions to spark writing and/or digital projects

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