The Digital Writing Workshop
by Krista Horrigan
1. Individuals learn to read and write for specific purposes and in specific contexts.
2. Choice and Inquiry
3. Philosophies and Theories
4. Assessment
5. Teach the Writer, not the writing
6. Hold on to what you know when it comes to teaching writing
7. Teach the writer, then the writing
8. Explore their passions
9. Teachers often look for ways of fitting new technologies into classroom 'business as usual' and are often regarded as 'mere' tools
10. formative assessments through conversations about writing
11. Consider both the process and the product
12. Summative Assessment: Six Traits rubric
13. Author Craft
14. Conferring
15. Publishing
16. improve relationships between teacher and student, locating revision during a natural point of learning in the writing process, empowering students to articulate the ebbs and flows of their own writing
17. Don't think of students as writers, think of them as composers
18. MAPS: mode, audience, purpose, and situation
19. Podcasts, Photo Essays, Screencasts,
20. Allowing students a purposeful opportunity to share their voices with the world
21. Peer evaluation: blessed, addressed or pressed