The Digital Writing Workshop

Written by

By: Megan Brennan, Jodi Bouchey, David Durkee

Troy Hicks

Troy Hicks

Troy is an excellent professor at Central

Michigan University. He teaches some of the best

classes available to the school. He is a pioneer at using digital media in his writing courses. He often

integrates online resources when creating

writing workshops for his students.

He is happily married and has a “Brady sized” family. He is currently auditioning for the new, modern day, “Hicks Bunch”.

Blogs, Wikis, and Collaborative Word Processors for Conferring Purposes

Conferring with students one-on-one takes up too much time that needs to be spent on whole-class instruction

Teachers aren’t rushed to give feedback immediately

Responses given are more permanent

Revision process is available step by step for students to assess their own writing process

The learning doesn’t stop just because writing workshop time is over

Literally a lighter load for teachers

BE SENSITIVE!

Allows for collaboration between peers as well

Blogs & Wiki’s Continued…..

Really Simple Syndication

RSS Feeds

Can be added to blogs, wikis,

and bookmarked.

Automatically updates the reader with articles published. Megan's Wiki Page

MLive

Technical Writer's Blog

Social Bookmarking

Similar concept as Dropbox.com

Users are able to bookmark a webpage and then retrieve it on another computer.

Diigo.com is an excellent tool for social bookmarking

Diigo Tutorial

Students are able to bookmark materials and use them at a later time.

Publishing Digital Writing

“It is important for them (students) to learn how to contribute to their communities as digital writers…” –Troy Hicks

Respond/Responded to

Digital Portfolios

Wiki (Hey, that’s what we’re doing!) Student Links

Blogfolios Creating Links Documenting Work Permanent Archives Tagging work to view development Similar to Googledocs

Class Anthologies

A collection of a class’ work over a period of time.

Typically printed and shared.

You can use technology with Wiki’s

Audio Anthologies

Hardware/Software

Students record work Formally Informally

Choose how to share the Anthology

Distribute

Concerns or Aspects to Ponder

Copyright

Student Safety

Troy Talking about The Digital Writing Workshop

Troy's Youtube Video

Resources

Diigo.com

Wikispaces.com

Wetpaint.com

Edublogs.com

Classblogmeister.com

Google Docs

Hicks, Troy. The Digital Writing Workshop. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2009. Print.