Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and Other Digital Tools

by Richard W. Beach, Chris M. Anson, Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch

See how to use various digital tools including blogs, wikis, digital mapping, online chat, digital storytelling, podcasts, e-portfolios, and others to teach writing in the classroom. Packed with examples of teaching activities and student writing, this one-of-its-kind book demonstrates how to use search engines and digital mapping to develop information, online discussion tools and blogs to formulate ideas, Wikis to write collaboratively, digital storytelling and poetry to create multimodal texts, podcasts and vlogs to create audio and video texts, online commenting tools to provide peer feedback, and much more.

272 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2008

Reviews

[Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good details on incorporating different technology tools in innovative ways to improve writing with students. Has a nice mix of basic ideas and also presents ways to incorporate multiple tools in order for students to build portfolios with outside commentary.

[Dr.Given · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good details on incorporating different technology tools in innovative ways to improve writing with students. Has a nice mix of basic ideas and also presents ways to incorporate multiple tools in order for students to build portfolios with outside commentary.

[Jacquie Leighton · Rating 3 out of 5]

Useful ideas for including digital writing in instruction. Lots of suggestions for tools to use and a large wiki to support many of the examples only mentioned in the text itself. Good research and rationale included. Mostly geared for high school.