8:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Digital writing tools such as blogs, wikis, digital stories, and social networks can contribute to what you are already doing in your writing instruction as well as appeal to a new generation of students. In this hands-on session, we will explore how new ways of thinking about well-established practices in the writing workshop—student choice and inquiry, conferring on writing, examining author’s craft, publishing writing, and broadening our understandings of assessment—could be updated for the digital age. With examples of how to teach digital writing throughout, bring your own laptop so we can begin creating your digital writing workshop.
Session 2: Connected Reading: Apps and Approaches for Digital Texts
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
As we adopt smartphones and tablets for 1:1 instruction, we need to review our efforts at comprehension instruction for all kinds of digital texts. Based on a survey of over 800 adolescents, we will discuss principles of "Connected Reading" and how we can adapt existing comprehension strategies in digital spaces, as well as explore new opportunities for finding, managing, and reflecting on digital texts.
Where & When
Ball State University Alumni Center
June 17, 2015
Cost
$60 for each workshop or $100 for both. Lunch is not included.
Register
Register information at our website.
