Writing in the Digital Age Resources

National Resources:

1. NCTE Resource Collection has a nice menu of teaching resources.
2. 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."
3. 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.
4. Conference on College Composition and Communication Policy Positions
5. Assembly on Computers in English
6. Assembly on Computers in English Workshop is a favorite site connected to the NCTE, that offers individual consulting on technology-based projects within the English language arts. ACE consultants have years of experience working with a wide range of technology applications, including threaded discussions, listservs, chatrooms, MOOs and MUDS, webquests, digital stories, weblogs, podcasts, hypertext, electronic archives, e-portfolios, and more. Subscribing to ACE gets you personal access to their consultants, who will work with you to tailor a technology solution that fits your classroom. ACE also runs a yearly workshop at the NCTE convention.
7. SLATE Starter Sheets: (Support for the Learning and Teaching of English) This site offers short explanations of NCTE positions on a number of educational issues. They are meant to be copied and passed out.

Missouri Specific Resources of Interest

• The Gateway Writing Project
• The Missouri Writing Project Network
• Greater Kansas City Writing Project
• Ozarks Writing Project (Missouri State)
• Prairie Lands Writing Project
• iPLWP Teacher Resource Wiki
• TechFiles IndexThis is a great feature, with resources specific to using technology in the classroom.
• TechKnow Files: Instructional Materials for Technological Literacy

Specific Technology Resources

• ISTE: National Educational Standards
• Teaching Writing from NWP: Writing and Technology
• 7 Things You Need to Know About Teaching and Technology The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's 7 Things You Should Know About...pieces provide quick, no-jargon overviews of emerging technologies and related practices that have demonstrated or may demonstrate positive learning impacts. Any time you need to explain a new learning technology or practice quickly and clearly.
  (What, How, Where, Why?)
• HPR*TEC Organization High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium
• SlideShare SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations on the web. And it's free. For example, you create a PowerPoint for your presentation at a conference, then you use Slide Share to share this with conference participants to view later.
• Google.docs Create and share your work online (Free)
  Create, edit and upload quickly
  Import your existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, or create new ones from scratch. Access and edit from anywhere. All you need is a Web browser. Your documents are stored securely online.
• Think.com A Global Community for Learning
  Think.com connects schools, teachers, and students from around the world to collaborate on projects, share experiences, and build knowledge together.
• Audacity The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor
• Wiki introductory video
• Wetpaint: Create Your Own Free Wiki
• Wiki Spaces Create Your Own Free Wiki
• PBWiki Create your own free wikis for the classroom. Easy!
• Digital Storytelling Workshop
• Digital Storytelling Links and workshops
• Center for Digital Storytelling
• Personal Storytelling
• Digital Tools
• Twitter: Twitter: Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
• Twitter Examples
• Changing Face(Book) of Education: A nice site that explores how social networking is changing education.
• Flickr: Share photos
• Flickr Map
• Creating a Podcast on Audacity
• Gogofrog: takes you into the ultimate 3D world. No downloads just the internet in 3D. Create your own ulimited online space, it’s fast, easy and free. Do things you simply can’t in 2D … See and chat with your site visitors, furnish your environment and change your whole space or yourself to suit your mood, store photos, read a book or share one, write a journal, interact, listen to music…The potential for education is enormous. Students can create galleries instead of PowerPoint presentations.
• Bay Area Writing Project: Digital Paper-- An Online Magazine by Bay Area Writing Project Writers!
  

  Putting It All Together

• North Central Learning With Technology Profile Tool
• Technology Integration: Putting the pieces together by Helen Petropoulos
• Literacy and Technology Integration
• TechFiles IndexThis is a great feature, with resources specific to using technology in the classroom.
• TechKnow Files: Instructional Materials for Technological Literacy
• TrailFire: Youth Voices—NYC & Utah This is a trail of 8 pages, marked with comments, by Chris Sloan
• Writing in the Digital Age: Putting all the educational tools together, several teachers from across the country share their presentations, through PowerPoints and Podcasts on a shared space. There are good links here to see how they put it all together.

Web English Teachers

• Free Blogs: This is an easy place to start a blog. They will give you ideas and 3 simple steps to start a blog.
• WordPress: Another cool blog site.
• Blogger: More free blogs
• Whole Food Twitter
• Electronic Portfolios
• Blip TV
• MICDS Google Sketch Up
• Ning: Blog (Social Networking)
• Guide to Blogging: Educause Learning Tools
• Guide to Podcasting: Educause Learning Tools
• Podcasting for Education—includes tutorials, ideas, articles, tools, and a gallery of podcasts create for teachers and students)
• How to Podcast from PowerPoint: Using Slideshare
• Slidecasting: Slidecasting is a new multimedia format for viewing slide decks synchronized with an audio file. It is for conference talks, musical slideshows, audio picture books or whatever else you can imagine. It's really easy to create one, so get started now!
• Podcasts at Penn State—educational podcasting at the Pennsylvania State University
• Creating a Podcast on Audacity
• Comic Life
• Comic Life in Education
• Wordle
• Wordle: Analysis of Presidential Addresses
• Top 20 Uses for Wordle
  
  

Traditional Technology

• Landmarks Citation Machine
• Copyright and the Web: This portal provides real world, practical and relevant copyright information for anyone navigating the net.
• How Search Engines Work
• The Webquest Page at San Diego State University
• Read, Write, Think: Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
• Read, Write, and Think: Best practices
• ISTE: International Society for Technology in Education
• ISTE Nets: National Educational Technology Standards
• Cyber Guides/Web-Searching Activities For Students
• Literacy Matters
• MyBookmarks: access your bookmarks online-anytime, anywhere Free!
• Webby Awards
• Educational Weblogs
• Digital Storytelling: lesson plans and handouts for educators
• Center for Digital Storytelling:
• Story Corp: Sound Projects

PowerPoint

• PowerPoint Homepage
• Add narration to a presentation: Narration can enhance Web-based or self-running presentations. You can also use narration to archive a meeting, so that presenters or absentees can review the presentation later and hear any comments made during the presentation.
• Add and play sounds in a PowerPoint presentation
• Embedded and linked sound files in a presentation
• My sound doesn’t play
• Copy a presentation to a CD, network, or local disk drive
• "How to make PowerPoint files small"
• PowerPoint to Video
  

Webpages

• Webpage Creation: Blogs & Wikis, Video Blogging
• Adding video to your website
• Using Windows Movie Maker to make videos for the Web
• Teaching English Through Technology Allen Webb's site
• Digital Media and Learning: lastest news on technology and education
• VoiceThread: Online tool that facilitates multimedia storytelling.
• ThinkQuest: Students create website for students
• Evaluating Websites: Good hints to assess webpages
• Magnetic Poetry Online: Good place for students and teachers to play with poetry online with others.
• Cybercomp 10: This is a website for a grade 10 composition class where technology is completely integrated into the course.
• Dr. Allen Webb's Resource Page

Screencasting

• Word Share DemoCreator
• SnapzPro
• Will Richardson: Screencasting of How to Use Wikipedia in the Classroom

Profiled Teachers

Gary Ryan'sWriting with Technology

 Ms. Artkras Writer's Tools

Bill Klein's Writing Across the Curriculum

Time of Rememberance: Gail Desler's site where she is working with students, teachers, and community members in developing this website and transforming the project into a resource for examining the consequences of denying any group of people their rights guaranteed by the US Constitution.

Teaching Tips: from Hawaii

NWP--Profiles in Practice