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iWrite : using blogs, wikis, and digital stories in the English classroom / Dana J. Wilber.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2010.Description: xiii, 138 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0325013977 (alk. paper)
  • 9780325013978 (alk. paper)
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Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: it's a brave new world -- What it means to teach reading and writing today -- New literacies for new times -- What are blogs, wikis, and digital stories? -- The nuts and bolts of creating and using blogs, wikis, and digital stories in your classroom -- Using technology to address ten key issues in reading and writing instruction -- Upcoming technologies that may make a difference in the English classroom.
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Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's 428.0078 W664 Available 33111006347633
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"It's not that our students aren't reading and writing, but that whereand what they are reading and writing is off the school radar. We can build a bridge between the literate lives of our students outside of school and the literacies we want to teach them."

--Dana J. Wilber

The power ofDana Wilber's insight is in its simplicity. Students are texting, networking, and blogging- i.e., writing and reading- all the time, everywhere, just maybe in places we aren't necessarily paying attention to. Build on their authentic interest and motivation using the technologies they are already committed to and you've won half the battle. You won't believe how engaged they are; they won't believe they're learning for school.

In iWrite,Dana shows you how to guide students through the complexity of new literacies, including:

how to discern between media how to account for audience and voice how to choose appropriate genre and how to harness what they already know to be more successful in school.

Dana deftly elucidates the lives of Millennials, those students growing up around the turn of the 21stcentury, and the technologies embedded into their everyday reading and writing. She shows us how three accessible tools-wikis, blogs, and digital storytelling -can be used to scaffold learning for our students. And she demonstrates how they can help us address 10 key issues in the literacies of today's students:

Safety Authenticity Practice Relevance Meaning and identity Interest and inquiry Cognitive development Community Process Motivation Let iWrite show you how to capture students' daily literacy practices and develop them for the kind of writing we want them to learn.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-131) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: it's a brave new world -- What it means to teach reading and writing today -- New literacies for new times -- What are blogs, wikis, and digital stories? -- The nuts and bolts of creating and using blogs, wikis, and digital stories in your classroom -- Using technology to address ten key issues in reading and writing instruction -- Upcoming technologies that may make a difference in the English classroom.

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