Explore and create: Deep-dive Creation lab 
Preregistration Required
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: Demonstration of Applications and Projects
30 mins: Choice Board: 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); Draw and Tell; Chatterpix Kids; Toontastic
5 mins: Participants will share creations 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)
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