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May 11, 2006 02:36 PM
Using Writely in a Writi3/27/
I think Writely offers many opportunities for use in both staff development sessions and with students in the classroom. The immediacy of the feedback/postings is a huge plus. A few ideas...
1. In a workshop on assessing writing, participants would be asked to read samples of student writing and then provide responses as to the strengths of the writing and then ideas for further improvement. Students could also rewrite a portion of a sample to further demonstrate their idea(s) for improving the writing. Check out my Writely site.
2. Students could post portions of a piece of writing to gain revision ideas from others. Revision could be done either by individuals or small groups.
3. Teacher or presenter posts questions/topics/prompts to the group. Participants respond.
4. In a lesson on writing good beginnings or endings, students might go on a scavenger hunt looking through various resources (magazines, newspapers, books, on-line, etc.) to find rich examples of each. The compilation of this work would then serve as a resource for students to use during the year. Ideally, a resource that improves over time.
5. Images could be used as story starters.
6. Students could create a ?progressive? story. One student begins the story writing a sentence (or paragraph) and then other students add to the piece one at a time until the writing is complete.
7. Using Writely as a means of recording ideas at brainstorming or planning sessions. Note: Jennifer modeled this idea at the ITSC conference 2007 planning session this morning.
Posted by linda on May 11, 2006 at 02:36 PM in Technology Integration Success (TIS) | Comments (0)
