Chapter 2 Fo

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Choice and In

quiry

Through RSS, Socia

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Bookmarking, and

Blogging

Part I S

ummary

Part II A

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Part III D

iscussion

Part I Summary of Chapter 2

Generality: How new options for gathering tagging, and saving information allow

students to make their own choices

Background: Shifts of Composing

In the past Today

Raw Materials Confined to the

school or local

library

Traditional news, citizen journalism, academic titles, self-published

books, major media outlets, whoever can post a video (grow minute

by minute)

Understanding of

Constitution of

literacy

writing and reading Technical stuff + the ethos stuff( mind-set toward open and

collaborative process)

Example: doing research process

In the past: a topic that the teacher selected, the book that librarian selected, note cards or

outline pages that were well scripted. 2-3 weeks.Today: begin and end with google search and other options more and more writers: digital tools → search information → collaborate with peers → revise → submit

Students have more initiatives in writing,also they can search and choose information by themselves.

Require a set of critical sensibilities about gathering electronic pieces of text

Require a set of critical sensibilities about gathering, organizing, and integrating information into our writing.

Three tools to organize and reflect on the mass quantities of information

※RSS(Really simple Syndication) Netvibes: www.netvibes.com

Feedly: https://feedly.com/i/discover Rss reader: https://www.rss.com

※Social bookmarking Diigo: www.diigo.com

Clipmarks: clipmarks.com Delicious: delicious.com

※ Blogging Basic Edublogs: edublogs.org Class Blogmeister: classblogmeister.com Ning: ning.com

Part II

1. What do you know about RSS?

2. In your opinion, what can RSS be used to do?

Really simple syndication (or rich site summary), commonly known as RSS, allows readers to subscribe to web content, just as they might choose to subscribe to a magazine and receive it at home rather than go purchase it from a store.

1. Netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com/en2. Feedly: https://feedly.com/i/discover3. Rss reader: https://www.rss.com

http://youtube.com/v/Yn1QXC0Yevc

Example: Teacher and students

Social Bookmarking

1. How do you share your favorite websites with others?

2. What can you do if you want to visit your favorite website(s) from other computers?

What is it?

● Invites the user to organize information that has already been found and share it with others; a human touch to sorting and filtering.

● Users save links to web pages that they want to remember and share.○ They are public, but can be saved privately○ Shared only with specified people or groups

● Advantages to a digital writing workshop….○ Access to websites everywhere: home, school, friends house○ A teacher can set up a social bookmarking account and deliver through RSS

■ Teacher would give the URL to their social bookmarker account and invite them to subscribe

■ Teacher would tag links on that account for student access

Other Examples...

https://www.commoncraft.com/video/social-bookmarking

Have you heard of Pinterest?Other Examples…. www.diigo.comwww.clipmarks.com

Some knowledge about blog

Role for educators: Post assignments and announcement; have students respond to teacher-posted prompts; have online discussion.

Benefits for students: Students can share and get feedback on their own writing, allow them to set up their own online presence and give and receive feedback from classmates.

Advantages for writers: The blog’s author can take feedback on her own blog and use it for future posts or revisions.

Part III

How do you integrate these three digital tools into

Writing Workshop?