Resources for Digital Writing in the Classroom



Selected Resources on Digital Writing in the Classroom

November 16th, 2007

Websites:



This website is a basically a professor arguing why digital writing, such as blogs or live chats are beneficial to the developing of student reading, writing, and communicating.



This is a website designed specifically to show how a teacher or professor can integrate live chat into their classroom. The site gives a brief explanation of the benefits of live chatting in the classroom and then goes on to list steps on how to implement the teaching tool into the course.

Articles:



This site is an article from a University in Illinois about a local professor who incorporated blogs into his class and how it has now improved the writing of his students. He (Sandvig) says that it improves the students' writing because they know that everybody, not just the professor is going to be reading their blogs and are thus compelled to write well.



This article is an essay that was posted on a blog online. The focus of the paper is on digital writing in the classroom and the essay explores the subject in depth for several pages.



This article is a collection of thoughts and opinions from students and professors alike about their likes and dislikes about the bloging setup in college level classrooms. Opinions are varied and offer a very interesting insight on the opinions of blogs.



This site is actually a blog in itself. The blogger is Dr. Alison Ruth a professor at the University of Auckland. Throughout the blog she lists reasons why teachers are afraid to let students blog and why she thinks they should be allowed to.



This article was composed by writers at the Michigan State University. In the article the author explores what writing is and what our traditional misconceptions of writing on computers are. The article is packed tight with information that would be useful in understanding the perception of writing and what it means today to modern students.

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