Writing+and+Responding

toc This page contains resources focused on digital writing as writing and responding, where students and teachers can post and respond to comments in a variety of ways, about a variety of subjects.

=Writing and responding on any topic= [|Blogspot] Blogspot is a site that supports creating your own blog or classroom blog, where those with access can create posts and comment on other posts.

[|Edublogs] Edublogs is a blog site that is geared specifically toward educators.

[|Wordpress] Wordpress is another site that allows you to create your own blog or classroom blog, where those with access can create posts and comment on other posts.

[|Wallwisher] This is a great site Kerry recommended (see an example on the "What is Writing?" inquiry group page). It allow you to basically create a message board of post-its, so you can gather and sort ideas, respond to conversations, organize and reorganize thinking, etc.

=Writing and responding about literature= [|Goodreads] A free website to get great book recommendations, keep track of what you've read, form a book club and more. Teachers can create classroom groups, wherein students can write and share book reviews and book lists.

=Edmodo: Like Facebook for the classroom= [|Edmodo] A free and secure social learning network for teachers, students and schools. It looks a lot like Facebook, but is created with educators and school classrooms in mind.

=Writing and responding to video and other media= [|Viddler] On-line video platform. Has the capability to allow you to comment directly on a video, at specific moments, so that when others view the video they can view your comments at the same time. Has potential for fostering discussion about video texts.

[|Voicethread] Voicethread allows you to create a multimedia slide show (perhaps with images, documents, videos, or combinations thereof) and allows people to comment in multiple ways on the slideshow (using voice, text, or video). Users can also draw/doodle while commenting.

If you need help saving videos from Youtube to your computer (to upload into Viddler, for example), this [|downloading program]can help.