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Quinns Beach TDS A lifetime to DREAM, EXPLORE, DISCOVER Engaging Reluctant Writers with Digital Tools Bhavneet Singh

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Here are the bare bones of my presentation. Its just a list of tools to get students engaged in the writing process. Tools don't teach, teachers do.

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Quinns Beach TDSA lifetime to DREAM, EXPLORE, DISCOVER

EngagingReluctant Writers

with

Digital Tools

Bhavneet Singh

Why you need

a digital

identity?

Explicit

Teaching

Engagement

I haven’t got anything

to write about!

I don’t know how to

write it!

I don’t know how

to make it sound

interesting?

I don’t know

what words to

use!

Why should I?

I don’t want to

write.

Ideas! Structure! Vocabulary!

Language! Purpose!

Ideas

Purpose

Audience

Role of -Writer

-Authors

-Publishers

Celebrating

Feedback

Ideas★ Give them something to write about★ Provide scaffolds - writing frameworks,

personal experiences, images, etc★ Read and reflect on good pieces of writing

Vocabulary★ Exposure

★ Use different tools

★ Teach about language features in fun way

★ Quick short activities

■ Vocabulary games

■ Sentence structure games

■ Punctuation games

■ Spelling gamesWorlde

Tagxedo

Visual

Thesaurus

Audience &

Purpose★ Different forms of communication

★ Who is the target audience?

★ Writing for a blog, movie, puppet show,

website, etc

Digital Tools

Piclits★ Images

★Vocabulary

★Use any Visual Prompts to get the

imagination going

Pinterest - Flickr

★visual prompts

★ ideas

www.literacyshed.com

www.lendmeyourliteracy.com

www.readwritethink.org

www.100wc.net

Microsoft Moviemaker

Microsoft PhotoStory

Other fun tools

www.powtoon.com

www.voki.com

www.animoto.com

www.glogster.com (edu version)

Other Apps★ Book Creator★ Explain

Everything★ Educreations★ HaikuDeck★ Prezi★ Showbie★ AudioBoom★ Grafio Lite★ Story Buddy 2★ Adobe Voice★ My Story

★ Glogster★ iMovie★ Stopmotion★ Superimpose★ Greenscreen★ Inkflow★ Inspiration★ Popplet★ Thinkglink★ VoiceThread

★ QR Code Creator★ Montaj★ Piccollage★ Aurasma★ Voice Photo★ Sock Puppets★ Puppet Pals★ Puppets Edu★ Tellagami★ FlipGrid★ Balloon+

Publish

Website builders

★www.weebly.com

★www.wix.com

★Wordpress

★Edublogs

Feedback

★ Interactive feedback - VoiceThread

★Digital Feedback - Adobe, WOrd….

★Tweet the link to the published work

★ Invite parents and community