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Write On! Digital Tools That Engage |
Participate and share : Interactive session
Christia Osborn-Preston
Writing is awesome but how do we show this to our students who have grown up in the age of multimedia? Let’s leverage tools students use for consuming media to motivate them to write and create. Learn about digital tools that are so engaging and fun, students will love them.
| Audience: | Curriculum/district specialists, Library media specialists, Teachers |
| Skill level: | Beginner |
| Attendee devices: | Devices useful |
| Attendee device specification: | Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows |
| Participant accounts, software and other materials: | None |
| Topic: | Online tools, apps & resources |
| Grade level: | PK-5 |
| Subject area: | Language arts |
| ISTE Standards: | For Students: Creative Communicator
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Purpose: How might we incorporate innovative digital writing activities to engage the learners of today?
Objective #1
The participant will investigate the importance of providing students with the opportunity to engage in contemporary, multimedia writing activities.
Objective #2
The participant will gain a repertoire of resources and activities to teach writing and have confidence that they can facilitate this learning for students.
Agenda
10 mins: Introduction and Framing the Topic
10 mins: Pedagogy, Resources, and Examples
30 mins: Hands-on Activities with Pixton Comics (On a Scale of Project); Random Emoji Power Paragraph (Eduprotocols); Thin Slides (Eduprotocols); Adobe Spark (Create a Personal Brand)
5 mins: Participants will share examples to a Padlet
5 mins: Wrap-up and Reflection; Draw and Tell (Eduprotocol)
Digital Writing Tools from the Student Perspective (Helene Dahlström)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-018-9844-x
Reimagining Writing Instruction with Digital Tools (KRISTINE E. PYTASH, RICHARD E. FERDIG, ENRICO GANDOLFI, AND RACHEL MATHEWS)
https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2016/07/01/reimagining-writing-instruction-with-digital-tools
The Top 5 Ways to Get Kids Writing (Amy Mayer) https://friedtechnology.com/blog/the-top-5-ways-to-get-students-writing/
Eduprotocols (Jon Corippo and Marlena Hebern)
Mrs. Osborn-Preston is a Google Certified Innovator and a National Board Certified Teacher as an Early Childhood Generalist. She is a proud graduate of the University of Texas with a BA in Dance and a BA in Psychology and she earned a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from UNLV. As an educator for twenty-one years, she has served as a kindergarten teacher, technology teacher, instructional coach, and curriculum coordinator. When she is not teaching students to create and innovate with technology, she coaches teachers to reflect on their professional practice and advance their craft for the benefit of their students.
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