Using Technology to Enhance Writing: Innovative Approaches to Literacy Instruction - Softcover

Anthology Of 36 Authors

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936764970 ISBN 13: 9781936764976

Publisher: Solution Tree, 2014

Synopsis

Sharpen your students' communication skills while integrating digital tools into writing instruction. Loaded with techniques for helping students brainstorm, plan, and organize their writing, this handbook troubleshoots issues students face when writing in a printed versus digital context and teaches them how to read in multiple mediums. You'll find tips for sharing writing, getting interactive feedback, incorporating grammar instruction, and more.

Benefits:

• Leverage digital technology to facilitate grammar instruction, prewriting and brainstorming exercises, editing, revising, peer review, assessment, and more.
• Discover how the natural interplay between reading and writing can strengthen both of these processes.
• Help students move writing through multiple storage locations and technologies--from school computers and smartphones to laptops and tablets.
• Develop students' understanding of voice, audience, and the responsibilities of authorship.
• Examine the process of not just fixing mistakes, but also understanding the root issues that drive errors.

Contents:

Part I: Prewriting and Introduction to Writing
Chapter 1: Driving Without a License: Digital Writing Without Digital Citizenship
Chapter 2: The Language Experience Approach Goes Digital
Chapter 3: Integrating Expository Writing With Technology

Part II: The Reading and Writing Connection
Chapter 4: Fostering Deep Engagement With Malleable Digital Genres
Chapter 5: Reading for Tone and Writing With Expressive Voice
Chapter 6: Digital Reading Logs: A Third Space for Literacy Growth

Part III: The Process Approach
Chapter 7: Screencasts: The Integration of Reading, Writing, and Technology
Chapter 8: Digital Storytelling
Chapter 9: Digital Writing Workshop

Part IV: Awareness of Audience and Purpose
Chapter 10: Electronic Family Message Journals
Chapter 11: Blogging and the Tool of Storytelling
Chapter 12: Engaging the Okal Rel Universe

Part V: Collaborative Writing
Chapter 13: Using Technology for Collaborative Writing
Chapter 14: Digital Content Curation
Chapter 15: The 4E Wiki Writing Model

Part VI: Grammar Instruction
Chapter 16: Data-Driven Learning for Grammar Classrooms
Chapter 17: Writing Pattern Poetry on Facebook
Chapter 18: Visual-Syntactic Text Formatting

Part VII: Editing and Revising
Chapter 19: Using 21st Century Technology to Edit and Revise
Chapter 20: Peer Review in a Digital Space
Chapter 21: Effective Revision and Editing Strategies

Part VIII: Assessment
Chapter 22: Automated Essay-Scoring Software
Chapter 23: Authentic Writing Through Digital Feedback
Chapter 24: Measuring Student Growth With Digital Portfolios

About this title

About the Author

Editors

Richard E. Ferdig, PhD, is summit professor of learning technologies and professor of instructional technology at Kent State University, where he works in the Research Center for Educational Technology and the School of Lifespan Development and Educational Sciences.

Timothy V. Rasinski, PhD, is a professor of literacy education at Kent State University. He focuses on reading fluency and word study, reading in the elementary and middle grades, and readers who struggle.

Kristine E. Pytash, PhD, is assistant professor of teaching, learning, and curriculum studies at Kent State University and codirector of the secondary Integrated Language Arts Teacher Preparation Program.

Contributors

Natalie Bernasconi; Monica T. Billen; Tammy B. H. Brown; Ashley Callan; Laurie O. Campbell; Gail Desler; Jooyoung Do; Sally Valentino Drew; Sarah T. Dunton; Carol Wade Fetters; Deborah-Lee Gollnitz; Lisa Holmes; Jeremy Hyler; Robin D. Johnson; Julia Kara-Soteriou; Gilda Martinez-Alba; Ewa McGrail; J. Patrick McGrail; Michael S. Mills; Renee M. R. Moran; Paul Morsink; Sue Nash-Ditzel; Timothy C. Pappageorge; Youngmin Park; Matthew T. Pifer; Sharon M. Pitcher; Dawn Reed; Juan M. Ruiz-Hau; Andy Schoenborn; Victoria Seeger; Katie Stover Kelly; Jenifer Salter Thornton; Charles A. Vogel; Amber White; Lynda Williams; Chase Young

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1936764970
• ISBN 13: 9781936764976
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Richard E. Ferdig, Timothy V. Rasinski, Kristine E. Pytash