Chapter3

Conferring -- both between teacher and student as well as student to student -- has long been at the heart of the writing workshop. How can digital writing tools help enhance our conferring practices? In what ways can different digital writing tools be used to provide us with the best opportunities to read and respond to student work?

Links Mentioned in Chapter 3


 * __Students 2.0__
 * Blogging services such as __Edublogs__, __Class Blogmeister__, __Thinkquest__, and __Ning__
 * Edubloggers such as __David Warlick__, __Vicki Davis__, and __Will Richardson__
 * Wikis such as __Wikispaces__, __Wetpaint__, __PBworks__, and the former JotSpot, which has now become __Google Sites__
 * __Educause's 7 Things You Should Know About Wikis__
 * The Common Craft Show's "__Wikis in Plain English__"
 * Examples of educational wikis including __Educational Wikis__, __Best Education Wikis__, __Terry the Tennis Ball__, __Aram Kabodian's class wiki__, and my __ENG 315 wiki__
 * __Educause's 7 Things You Should Know About Collaborative Editing__
 * __The Common Craft Show's "Google Docs in Plain English"__
 * Collaborative Word Processors such as __Google Docs__, __Zoho Writer__ and __more__ (Aune, 2008)
 * __Audacity - Open Source Audio Editor__ and __LAME MP3 Encoder__
 * __Chris Sloan's Audacity Tutorials__

Additional Links
 * Blogs, Wikis, Docs: Which is right for your lesson? A Comparison Table
 * Blogs, Wikis, Docs: Which is right for your lesson? A Comparison Table