Digital+Writing+Gallery

=Gallery of Digital Writing= toc Inspired by the many conversations that I have had with teachers across the country and via the interwebs, I wanted to create a space for us to share truly exemplary digital work that students are creating. Since my book is "done," and this wiki is still quite alive, if you have a student piece that you would like to contribute to this page, please feel free to do so!

Exemplary Elementary Digital Writing

 * [|Quicktime screencasting] for publishing stories by Helen Gamble
 * [|Keynote]Fantasy Video Extracts by Helen Gamble
 * [|Collaborative Storytelling] a Storybird by two elementary classrooms Mrs. Klein and Mrs. Bond
 * [|Interactive Literary Essays]Literary Essays made interactive through ThingLink (Teacher: Katharine Hale)
 * __Digital Personal Narratives__ using Newsletter Templates (Teacher: Katharine Hale) [[file:Alex t Alcatraz.pdf]]
 * __Nonfiction iBooks__ on Ancient Greece using Book Creator. Students opened them as books in iBooks app. (Teacher:Kathi Aagaard and Katharine Hale) [[file:AishaGreece.pdf]]
 * 4th Grade Research projects using Weebly (Teacher: Julie Johnson)

Exemplary Middle School Digital Writing

 * Digital Book Trailer: Crossed created by Lauren J. (Teacher: Jeremy Hyler)
 * Edublog Book Review: Skinny Create by Christina P (Teacher: Jeremy Hyler)
 * Close Reading of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" Using Skitch by Luke and Tyler (Teacher: Jeremy Hyler) Shown at right.

My name is Sheila Cooperman am I am a teacher in a suburban school in Connecticut. Would love to share thoughts and can be reached on Twitter. Several links will be attached. The students are sixth-graders in my English Language Arts class. They engaged in several forms of new learning. They experimented for the first time with Animoto, Prezi, and Google presentations as a means of demonstrating their work in a persuasive writing unit. The students created websites about their mentor authors in a literature author study unit.The web sites were shared via Twitter with the authors. Several of the authors contacted the class via Tweets and one came to visit and speak to the class. The digital involvement saw an increase in engagement, collaboration, motivation, and critical thinking in these eleven year olds. Hope you enjoy their work.

**Author Study Links:**

 * Lois Lowry Author Study
 * Nora Raleigh Baskin Author Study
 * Gordon Korman Author Study

Persuasive Writing Projects:

 * Why Arts Education Must be Kept
 * Birth Laws in China
 * School Hours

Exemplary High School Digital Writing

 * Multigenre Digital Essay: The Internet by Joshua Fayer (Teacher: Gerard Dawson)
 * Social Scholarship: Blogging Research Findings and the Final Paper with abstract by Hannah Samowitz (Teacher: Chris Sloan)
 * Entertainment Benefits and Harms: [|That's Entertainment] and Digital Story by Allison B. (Teacher: Dawn Reed)
 * Confidence and Beauty: [|Video] and paper The Role of Appearance and It's Effects by Annie C. (Teacher: Dawn Reed)
 * What It's Like to Be 18 in America Right Now (A Multimodal Collection by Mr. Ellis's students)
 * Stories modeled on the New York Times Snow Fall as a mentor text: River Flow and The Swarm (Teacher: Andrew Schoenborn)