GWP Resources
The Fall Retreat Links |
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| Wrting Project Sites of Interest | |
| The National Writing Project | |
| The concept for the website is to make it look like the site is doing things—Programs in Action, Spotlight Writers, Profile Teachers, Podcasts, brief topic teasers, ask an expert, get a speaker, reading groups, and discussion boards— make viewers participate with interactive material. | |
| The National Writing Porject's Digital Is | |
| The NWP Digital Is website is a collection of ideas, reflections, and stories about what it means to teach writing in our digital, interconnected world. Read, discuss, and share ideas about teaching writing today | |
| NWP Radio--listen to a part of a podcast. | |
| National Writing Project Ning | |
| Profile in Practice --a new way of writing for the web. | |
| Literacy, ELL, and Digital Storytelling: 21st Century Learning in Action :January 2009 A short video documents a semester-long digital writing project led by two Bay Area Writing Project teacher-consultants. It features my friend Clifford Lee. |
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| Selected Writing Project Sites | |
| Lake Michigan Writing Project | |
| Prairie Lands Writing Project | |
| Nebraska Writing Project | |
| Upstate Writing Project | |
| NWP Tech Liaison Network Projects | |
| Projects are funded through the Technology Matters minigrant program, which encourages local writing project sites to integrate technology into their core work and priorities, supports technology liaisons (TLs) as leaders at their writing project sites, and extends the knowledge base within the national Technology Liaisons Network. | |
| Where do we go from here? | |
| What Resources Should We Feature? | |
| Workshop Example--Digital Compositions at Urban Sites | |
| Digital Storytelling Workshop at UMSL | |
| Working Together: communication after the retreat. | |
| Gary's Tahoe Experience (Google Sites and Flickr) | |
| How about joining our conversations? | |
| The GatewayWriting Project on Facebook | |
| National Writing Project Ning | |
| The English Companion Ning | |
| Tech Friends Ning where nwp teckies meet and greet | |
| NWP Book Group Networkwhere nwp book groupies meet and greet. | |
| NWP Site Leaderswhere nwp site leaders meet and greet. | |
| Teachers Teaching Teachers--a weekly webcast | |
| Teaching the New Writing: A book | |
| How has the teaching of writing changed in the 21st century? In this innovative guide, teachers share their stories, successful practices, and vivid examples of their students' creative and expository writing from online and multimedia projects such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, electronic poetry, and more. | |
Want to hear a Podcast about this Teaching the New Writing?. |
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| NWP Radio--listen to a part of a podcast. | |
| eLectures from the Pearson Foundation--These are professional development lectures on composition. Listen to a bit of Rebecca Rickly's lecture. | |
| Gateway Writing Project Local Resources | |
| GWP Digital Storytelling Workshop--Here are some resources developed for the GWP community to advance digital storytelling. | |
| GWP Gallery of Writing at the NCTE St. Louis' Gateway Writing Project teachers are invited to share their writing in this gallery. Teachers of writing write! Here is an audience that appreciates your voice, acknowledges your creativity, and promotes your writing efforts. Write about your teaching, write about your beliefs as a writing educator, write about your life totally outside this professional world. The point: write! Share what you write! | |
| Topics in Writing in the Digital Age Here are a list of technology and teaching topics ranging from search engines to technology lesson plans. | |
| UM-St. Louis Writing Lab | |
| This site is a good source of basic writing information, on such topics as the writing process, citing sources, special writing projects (e.g. memos, applications, resumes, etc…), and particular problems, such as commas, frequently misspelled words, and grammar rules and quizzes. There is also an excellent selection of writing lab tutor pages devoted to writing on the UM-St. Louis campus. | |
| University of MO-Columbia Writing Lab | |
| Mizzou Campus Writing Program: This is a great sight with many supporting links. Check out the video on Social Media, education and pedagogy. | |
| TechFiles IndexThis is a great feature, from our friends at the Prairie Lands Writing Project, with resources specific to using technology in the classroom. | |
| Lee Summit Technology Integration—Writing | |
| GWP Presentations | |
| “Digital Conversations: Writing, Voice and Authorship in the New Media” a presentation given by Gary Ryan at the Urban Sites Conference in Portland, Oregon. | |
| The Prairie Lands Writing Project | |
| The Missouri Writing Project Network | |
| The Missouir Writing Project Network on Facebook | |
| NWP Resources The layout is very clean and well developed. In each category, the resources are fairly deep, but still suggestive, so readers can get a taste of the concepts, just like reading a newspaper online, then click to read deeper into the story. Only this time, the story might be "professional development." | |
| NCTE Resource Collection has a nice menu of teaching resources, but there is not a sense of personal movement and professional development. | |
| Conference on College Composition and Communication This site has an excellent collection of research articles, proposals,position papers, policy statements and the writing community links that produced these items. | |
| National Writing Project Links of Note | |
| Red Clay Web 2.0 Literacy Resources | |
| Troy Hicks--Digital Writing, Digitaal Teaching | |
| Troy Hicks--Integrating New Literacies into the Teaching of Writing--Check out his discussion of "Best Practices". | |
| Visit Troy Hick's Digital Writing Workshop's Ning | |
| Featured NWP Sites | |
| NWP Tech Liaison Network Projects | |
| Projects are funded through the Technology Matters minigrant program, which encourages local writing project sites to integrate technology into their core work and priorities, supports technology liaisons (TLs) as leaders at their writing project sites, and extends the knowledge base within the national Technology Liaisons Network. | |
| Lake Michigan Writing Project | |
| Prairie Lands Writing Project Tech-Know Files | |
| Oregon Writing Project | |
| Nebraska Writing Project | |
| Denver Writing Project | |
| Area 3 Writing Project | |
| Red Cedar Writing Project | |
| Upstate Writing Project | |
| Specific Technology Resources | |
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