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The Learning Concepts
Submitted by lmcisaac on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 17:32YWP's success in engaging students to write and helping them improve is based on three fundamental learning concepts:
- Authentic audience
- Peer-to-peer learning
- 21st-century learning
- Project-based learning
Click the links below to read more about each of them.
Podcasting
Submitted by lmcisaac on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 14:48
If you want your students to become better writers, authors, and communicators, then they need to be podcasting.
-- Wesley Fryer
Blogging
Submitted by ggevalt on Tue, 01/06/2009 - 20:47blog: a shared online journal where people post regular entries of creative work or journals about their personal experiences, opinions, observations and interests; postings are usually in a chronological order.
Digital Storytelling
Would your students enjoy creating stories by combining words, sound, images, and interesting special effects? Once they've learned the more basic skills of multimedia writing through regular blogging, podcasting and using images, it's time to get them involved in creating their own digital stories.
The term "digital storytelling" describes a wide variety of new media production practices. What ties them all together is the use of audio --both narration and sound -- and images to enhance the telling of a story that has been written. The stories can be about memorable experiences or events, beloved people or pets or places.
Image-based Writing
"The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one"..."Pictures are less objects to be saved than messages to be diseeminated."
-- Susan Sontag
Images are a great tool to use in the writing classroom. They can inspire students to write, help them develop visual literacy skills, encourage them to ask questions and illustrate writing they have done.
Multimedia Writing
Submitted by ggevalt on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 13:30One of the greatest attractions of using digital technology to teach writing is the opportunities it offers for multimedia writing. Multimedia writing starts with writing text, and then uses a combination of text, images, audio and/or video to illustrate the story and/or enhance the viewer's experience of it. The information presented in each medium is complementary, not redundant, so that different parts of the story are told using different media.
Using multimedia is a great way to engage students in many of the disciplines of writing. It also often entices the less engaged student to participate. Among the attributes of a multimedia project are these:
