The Digital Writing Workshop
Written by
By: Megan Brennan, Jodi Bouchey, David Durkee
Troy Hicks
Troy Hicks
Troy is an excellent professor at Central
Michigan University. He teaches some of the best
classes available to the school. He is a pioneer at using digital media in his writing courses. He often
integrates online resources when creating
writing workshops for his students.
He is happily married and has a “Brady sized” family. He is currently auditioning for the new, modern day, “Hicks Bunch”.
Blogs, Wikis, and Collaborative Word Processors for Conferring Purposes
Conferring with students one-on-one takes up too much time that needs to be spent on whole-class instruction
Teachers aren’t rushed to give feedback immediately
Responses given are more permanent
Revision process is available step by step for students to assess their own writing process
The learning doesn’t stop just because writing workshop time is over
Literally a lighter load for teachers
BE SENSITIVE!
Allows for collaboration between peers as well
Blogs & Wiki’s Continued…..
Really Simple Syndication
RSS Feeds
Can be added to blogs, wikis,
and bookmarked.
Automatically updates the reader with articles published. Megan's Wiki Page
MLive
Technical Writer's Blog
Social Bookmarking
Similar concept as Dropbox.com
Users are able to bookmark a webpage and then retrieve it on another computer.
Diigo.com is an excellent tool for social bookmarking
Diigo Tutorial
Students are able to bookmark materials and use them at a later time.
Publishing Digital Writing
“It is important for them (students) to learn how to contribute to their communities as digital writers…” –Troy Hicks
Respond/Responded to
Digital Portfolios
Wiki (Hey, that’s what we’re doing!) Student Links
Blogfolios Creating Links Documenting Work Permanent Archives Tagging work to view development Similar to Googledocs
Class Anthologies
A collection of a class’ work over a period of time.
Typically printed and shared.
You can use technology with Wiki’s
Audio Anthologies
Hardware/Software
Students record work Formally Informally
Choose how to share the Anthology
Distribute
Concerns or Aspects to Ponder
Copyright
Student Safety
Troy Talking about The Digital Writing Workshop
Troy's Youtube Video
Resources
Diigo.com
Wikispaces.com
Wetpaint.com
Edublogs.com
Classblogmeister.com
Google Docs
Hicks, Troy. The Digital Writing Workshop. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2009. Print.