The Digital Writing Workshop »

Troy Hicks is a professor of English at Central Michigan University and directs the Chippewa River Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project. There he teaches writing methods courses and offers professional development workshops on writing and technology. Troy has been listed as one of the Tech & Learning 100 @ 30 which recognizes students doing ground-breaking work in edtech, young entrepreneurs shaping the future of edtech, and those teachers changing classrooms around the nation. http://www.techlearning.com/article/32466

The wait is over.

In clean, clear prose that unravels the labyrinth of new terms and applications, Troy guides us towards a writing workshop for this age. His steady, smart advice eases the transition between the elements of writing workshop we know matter to the tools that can take each to a new place, one comfortably familiar, but with a decidedly updated feel. And this man has his priorities straight. He focuses first on the writer, then on the writing, and lastly on the technology.

Troy Hicks holds sight on good writing workshop instruction. Where others have talked about new technologies and how they change writing, Hicks shows you how to use new technologies to enhance the teaching of writing you already do. Chapters are organized around the familiar principles of the writing workshop: student choice, active revision, studying author s craft, publication beyond the classroom, and assessment of both product and process. In each chapter you ll learn how to expand and improve your teaching by smartly incorporating new technologies like wikis, blogs, and other forms of multimedia. Throughout, you ll find reference to resources readily available to you and your class online. He also includes a practical set of lessons for how to use wikis to explore a key concept in digital writing: copyright.

New literacies are developing around us at what sometimes seems like the speed of light. It s hard to keep it all in focus. Let Troy Hicks guide you through the complexities of what it all means for your classroom so your students writing can grow right in step with our changing times and technologies.

Foreword Penny Kittle

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Imagining a Digital Writing Workshop 1

Chapter 2 Fostering Choice and Inquiry Through RSS, Social Bookmarking, and Slogging 15

Chapter 3 Conferring Through Blogs, Wikis, and Collaborative Word Processors 35

Chapter 4 Examining Author's Craft Through Multimedia Composition 52

Chapter 5 Designing and Publishing Digital Writing 80

Chhpter 6 Enabling Assessment over Time with Digital Writing Tools 103

Chapter 7 Creating Your Digital Writing Workshop 125

Appehdix 1 Sample Lesson: Exploring Copyright Through Collaborative Wiki Writing 135

Appehdix 2 The Digital Writing Workshop Study Guide 152

References 158

Index 164