Are you using GoogleSites as part of your writing workshop? In brainstorming for a session Diana Benner and I are planning I explored how you could add technology to the structure of a writing workshop. I’m not sure I was successful, then I worried that maybe this was an idea that others had already done. Diana had suggested using GoogleSites wiki so I tried to focus on GoogleDocs/Sites components.
As such, here’s some brainstorming and I’d love feedback–critical or otherwise–about whether the idea is new, old, makes sense, not worth the effort, etc. A few assumptions, though:
- Ubiquitous access to technology like GoogleSites
- The focus is on using technology to capture all elements of the writing workshop in digital format. I’m not sure if that’s a worthwhile goal…certainly for minilessons, it is but…group shares?
- Writer’s Workshop – Love the idea of TAG introduced here.
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Just an example … but having Skype helps … not blocked here. : )http://classroombooktalk.wikispaces.com/Mysteries+of+Harris+BurdickWatch the video!
Just an example … but having Skype helps … not blocked here. : )http://classroombooktalk.wikispaces.com/Mysteries+of+Harris+BurdickWatch the video!
For group sharing, couldn't the students call in to a Google Voice number and leave a recording of a poem or a paragraph that they wrote? You could then take the recordings and post them for others to hear.
For group sharing, couldn't the students call in to a Google Voice number and leave a recording of a poem or a paragraph that they wrote? You could then take the recordings and post them for others to hear.