Vicki Davis presents on how writing has been reinvented through transliteracy and edtech tools. She discusses how writing now incorporates visual and multimedia elements across different platforms. Davis highlights several ways writing has been reinvented, including reinventing paper through ebooks and digital notebooks, reinventing notecards through social bookmarking services like Diigo, and reinventing filing cabinets through cloud syncing services. She provides recommendations for schools on implementing these new writing tools and literacies.
Reinventing Writing: 9 Ways Writing Has Been Reinvented and How to Use Them in Schools
1. Reinventing Writing:
How Transliteracy and EdTech Tools Create Successful
Student Writing Communities
Vicki A. Davis
Teacher, IT Director
@coolcatteacher
www.coolcatteacher.com
Author, Reinventing Writing (June 2014)
Author, Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds
Host, Every Classroom Matters (itunes)
2014 BAMMY Award – Best Education Talk Show Host
Coolcatteacher.com/literacypromise
2. The Collaborative Writing Cloud 9
Wikis
Collaborative
Writing Apps
Blogs
Social
Bookmarking
Graphic
Organizers
Collaborative
Notebooks
ePaper
Cartooning
Cloud
Syncing
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been reinvented?
3. Poll: Who are you?
A.Teacher
B.Librarian
C.Curriculum
D.Principal
E.Other administrator
4.
5. Meet Mrs. Adkins: Innovation is not an
AGE, it is a MINDSET
Her secret to
innovating with
kids:
3 folders a
weekend.
13. 1. 9 Ways Writing Has Been Reinvented
• Practical things students need to know
• Examples from classrooms
• Recommendations for each
2. 9 Key P’s for Digital Citizens
3. 20 Questions
ReinventingWriting –Vicki Davis
http://writinginthecloud.wikispaces.com
I’mVicki Davis @coolcatteacher
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14. 1. Specific Steps Building Writing Communities
(Chapter 13)
2. A lot of how-to’s (please use the chat to share
links)
3. To dive deeply into the 9 Key P’s for Safety &
Success (Chapter 12)
4. To dive deeply into the 20 questions (Chapter 2)
We won’t have time for –Vicki Davis
http://writinginthecloud.wikispaces.com
I’mVicki Davis @coolcatteacher
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15. John Seely Brown,Visiting Scholar, University of
Southern California
“…you can’t just drop new
innovations into a classroom
and hope that the instructor
will invent effective ways to
use them.To fully utilize a
new teaching technology, you
often need to invent new
teaching practices as well.” Gamifi-ed Project:
An Intergenerational Learning Community
http://gamifi-ed.wikispaces.com
Westwood Students (9th graders) &
Masters Students from University of Alaska Southeast &
Gamifi-ed MOOC
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17. Fosters community (Elbow 373)
Helps see problems from multiple viewpoints (Howard 10)
Co-authoring impacts the writing of individual authors (Aghbar)
Improves Learning Experiences (wolf 2010)
“Ideal model for constructing, reorganizing and acquiring new
information” (Janssen et all 2010)
Global collaboration is essential in today’s workplace (Friedman)
Shorten time required to solve pressing world problems (Tapscott)
Benefits of CollaborativeWriting
(Why we need writing communities)
Hong Kong 2011
Students edit wiki with virtual partners
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19. A LOCATION ON THE INTERNET
WHERE FILES ARE STORED
What is the Cloud?
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20. Teacher Question:
But I see a lot of videos, pictures,
and infographics along with writing
on the web, is this part of writing
literacy now?
21. STUDENTS MUST BE TRANSLITERATE
“Transliterate: The ability to read, write,
and interact across a range of platforms,
tools and media from signing and orality
through handwriting, print, TV, radio and
film to digital networks.”
Transliteracy Research Group
24. •Can each student have a distinct
username?
•Does the website track profile data on
the students?
•Can you set it up without an email
address?
•Can I access this site through my
school’s filter?
•Does this tool meet all policy
requirements for my school?
User Setup
•Can you easily set up a lot of users?
•Can you duplicate pages and/or
websites easily?
Scalability
•How easy is it to monitor?
•How much control can you have over
viewing, editing, and commenting?
Management
•Does the site allow hyperlinks?
Embedding?
•Uploading?
•What are the capabilities of
simultaneous editing?
•Can the document be viewed and/or
edited on multiple platforms? (like
tablets and mobile phones)
Interactive
features
•Does the site have good help files?
•Does the site have an active
community of educators that is well
supported by the company?
•If this is a mandated, privately
supported tool, what community will
be used to support teacher and
student work?
Community
•How private is data shared on the
platform?
•How secure is data shared on the
platform?
•What are the intellectual property
rights associated with what is shared
on the platform?
Privacy, Security,
and Intellectual
Property Rights
20 Questions about Technology Tools
Reality CheckWhat am I
trying to do?
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29. 5 Most popular ebook readers
Kindle
iBook
Nook
Kobo
Google Play Books
Learn More: Epic Ebook Guide
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#1 Reinventing Paper
31. 10 Places to Find, Download &
Read Free or Inexpensive eBooks
Site Link Site Link
Project Gutenberg gutenberg.org
eReaderIQ ereaderiq.com
Free Booksy freebooksy.com
Book Bub bookbub.com
Bookish bookish.com
Hundred Zeroes hundredzeroes.com
Goodreads goodreads.com
What Should I
Read Next?
whatshouldireadnext.com
Which Book openingthebook.com/whichboo
k
Calibre calibre-ebook.com
Learn More: Epic Ebook Guide
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/epic-ebook-guide/
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34. 7 Easy Ways to Publish eBooks
1. Liber.io
http://liber.io/
(Write in Google Drive eBook)
2. Draft
http://draftin.com/
3. iBooks Author
4. LeanPub
http://leanpub.com/
5. PowerPoint (It works!)
6. Keynote (Yes you can!)
7. Scrivener
Learn more:
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/publish-ebooks-free/
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35. Teacher Question:
How can I get the notes I take in
my Kindle or iBooks into Microsoft
Word or something else?
36. Did you know?
You can export your notes from Kindle or
iBooks into Evernote?
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/kindle-notes-evernote-export/
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/export-ibooks-notes/
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37. Teacher Question:
Where can I get all these links in
this presentation?
www.coolcatteacher.com/literacypromise
39. Calibre
You can convert almost any format of ebook
to another using Calibre?
See The Epic eBook Guide:
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/epic-ebook-guide/
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41. 2 Easy Ways to get PDF’s onto a
Kindle
1. Students can set up a kindle email
Put them in a group and email docs to them (a
small charge will be incurred.)
2. You can drag files onto a Kindle by hooking
it up to the computer with a cable (it looks
just like a thumb drive on the computer)
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43. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Evaluate Amazon Whispernet
Create a place where you can distribute or
link to free ebook content
Older students set up a profile on
kindle.amazon.com
Learn to export notes from books
Make epublishing part of what you do
#1 Reinventing Paper
Learn More: Chapter 3, Reinventing Writing
50. Popular Notebook Services
1. Evernote
2. One Note
3. Google Keep
4. PAPER! ;-)
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 4
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#2 Reinventing Notetaking
60. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Select an official notebook service for your school
Connect students and teachers
Share notes
Learn to capture, annotate, and find
See if students can find notes at a later date
#2 Reinventing Notetaking
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 4
61. Teacher Question:
Is there an easier way to research
for term papers or research
papers?
(And do students really have to
print out a million pages on my
printers?)
64. Meet the
new
notecard
Hyperlink is part of bookmark
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 5
See: http://www.coolcatteacher.com/diigo-social-bookmarking-tutorial/
65. Features of
the New
Notecard
(Diigo) Annotate Websites: Privately,
To a group or publicly
Group Bookmarks
http://physicsofthefuture.wikispaces.com
Student efolios
Citation Reports
69. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Set up a bookmarking group for each class
Set up a “tag dictionary” for common topics
for the term
Install the Diigo plug in to add more features
to websites
#3 Reinventing Notecards
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 5
79. Dropbox: Did you know?
You can connect to your students and share files
Dropbox is a great way to share videos
You can create a folder people can upload to using dropitto.me
Sortmybox will help you organize and move your dropbox
materials
Jotform sends forms straight to Dropbox
Automate Dropbox with IFTTT
You can create a website from a Dropbox Folder using site44
My bookmarks of all the things you can do with Dropbox:
https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/dropbox
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#5 Reinventing Filing Cabinets
80. Google Drive: Did you know?
You can install Google Drive like a Dropbox
Folder
You can set up shared class folders
Google Drive can link with other services (like
wevideo)
See “Becoming a Google Drive Master”
http://j.mp/gdrive-master
#5 Reinventing Filing Cabinets
81. One Drive: Did you know?
Integrated with Office and Windows 8 (no need to
install)
If you don’t buy the service, only 3 students can
sign up PER DAY behind a firewall (I give it as a
home assignment/ school supply)
Free versions of Word/ Excel/ Powerpoint
available online with your files if you use it
Replaces the “Jump Drive” more easily than
anything else.
#5 Reinventing Filing Cabinets
83. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Create shared places in the cloud for students
and teachers to move files between devices
Educate everyone on how to use them and
what they are doing (even if you don’t allow
them to use popular services)
Students need places to share video and
other files!
#5 Reinventing Filing Cabinets
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 6
108. Extra Features in Microsoft Word
You can call people and live chat them from
inside Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel
in Office 365?
You can live edit Microsoft Word now?
You can get Microsoft Office on the iPad now?
Microsoft Office has Add Ons too?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/store/
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#5 Reinventing Word Processors
110. Zamzar!
Zamzar.com can convert almost any format?
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#5 Reinventing Word Processors
112. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Set up collaborative writing tools
Make sure teachers know how to give text
and voice feedback
Empower peer feedback
Train and connect everyone!
Teach students (and teachers) to convert files
of all types
#5 Reinventing Word Processors
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 7
125. Karen Lirenman
Kathy Cassidy
Building Student Learning Communities
through Twitter
http://j.mp/lirenman-twitter
Using Twitter in a Primary Classroom
http://j.mp/primary-twitter
Class Twitter Accounts
Open Doors
130. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Set up a blogging platform for your students
Encourage feedback and connection
Find a Quadblogging Group for every
classroom in your school
Use microblogging to communicate and
connect with the world
Give your classroom a public platform to
share and connect
#6 Reinventing Journals
& Reports
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 8
140. Popular Wiki Websites
1. Wikispaces
2. PBWiki
3. Install Media Wiki
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#7 Reinventing Group Reports
144. Popular Group Website Creators
1. Weebly
2. Wix
3. Webs
4. Google Sites
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146. Did you know?
You can set up private projects on wikispaces even if your
overall wiki is public?
You can have a free ad-free site if you’re a K12 educator
See my classroom wiki at http://westwood.wikispaces.com
You can comment in-line like Google Drive?
You can use Wikispaces classroom to monitor engagement
live?
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#7 Reinventing Group Reports
148. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Create a collaborative wiki community
Write common information together with
others with a different worldview
Learn to write collaboratively
Multi age
Intergenerational
Within your district
Create a platform for student efolios
#7 Reinventing Group Reports
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 9
157. Did
you
know?
You should preplan what you’ll write before
you start collaborative writing?
Favorite outlining tools:
Hackpad, Google Drive, Etherpad, Office 365
159. Did you know?
You can create a mindmap to organize and embed it or link it
from your document to keep the two connected?
Live chats with documents usually aren’t saved, so you want
to have people use comments instead to include collaborative
partners
Partners should know how to find past conversations and
revisions
If you want to collaboratively write – it starts with collaborative
prewriting
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#8 Reinventing Prewriting
160. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Teach Prewriting tools and skills
Teach Collaborative Prewriting methods
Don’t forget prewriting
Embed prewriting documents in the final
document
Include asynchronous partners in your
communications.
#8 Reinventing Prewriting
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 10
161. Teacher Question:
How can we create graphics for
online student work? Aren’t
they important parts of modern
writing?
168. See: 7 Ways to Use Canva to Create
Compelling Graphics
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/canva-how-to/
169. Teacher Question:
Why are graphics so important
in online writing?
Can they be distracting and
stop people from reading?
170. Readibility tips?
Captions under images are read 300% more
than body copy
Headlines placed below an image are read by
10% more people than headlines above
Never break the left margin
Images should either have: story appeal or
demonstrate something
See: http://blog.kissmetrics.com/shocking-truth-about-graphics/
#9 Reinventing Illustrations
172. Recommendation
Teach students how to create and select
images
Encourage the use of infographics to tell
stories
Help students visually organize their efolios
Follow and teach guidelines to promote
readability
#9 Reinventing Illustrations
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 11
174. The Collaborative Writing Cloud 9
Wikis
Collaborative
Writing Apps
Blogs
Social
Bookmarking
Graphic
Organizers
Collaborative
Notebooks
ePaper
Cartooning
Cloud
Syncing
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176. Google Forms – A school survey
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
177. Goes into Spreadsheet
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
178. Cool Trick Copy out of spreadsheet into Wordle!
Step 1: Convert Everything to lowercase by pasting into MS Word.
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
180. What Westwood Students own
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
181. Wikisource: Copy Text from Famous Speech
http://en.wikisource.org
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
186. 9 P’s for
Proactive
Knowledge
1. Passwords
2. Privacy
3. Personal Information
4. Photography
5. Property
6. Permissions
7. Protection
8. Professionalism
9. Permanence
Adapted from Reinventing Writing
by Vicki Davis
187. Teacher Question:
Are there habits that students
can develop that will make our
class writing community
stronger?
188. You can build community
CoP: Community of Practice
“Communities of practice are groups
of people who share a concern or a
passion for something they do and
learn how to do it better as they
interact regularly.”
Ettienne Wegner, Communities of Practice: A Brief
Introduction, 2012.
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Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 13
191. I’m here to help!
www.coolcatteacher.com
Twitter @coolcatteacher
Facebook www.facebook.com/coolcatteacher
iTunes: Every Classroom Matters
This PRESENTATION:
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Let’s connect!
192. Reinventing Writing:
How Transliteracy and EdTech Tools Create Successful
Student Writing Communities
www.coolcatteacher.com/literacypromise
Vicki A. Davis
Teacher, IT Director
@coolcatteacher
www.coolcatteacher.com
Author, Reinventing Writing (June 2014)
Author, Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds
Host, Every Classroom Matters (itunes)
2014 BAMMY Award – Best Education Talk Show Host
Editor's Notes
So, I embed my learning and take 15 minutes 2-3 times a week to learn and explore new technologies and this, has been the thing that has led to the complete transformation of my classroom! But you don’t have time – you say.
One drop is a drop of water. Many drops of water together make rain. Rain makes the grass grow. One person writing is one workbut multiple people make change. Change can improve our world.
Resources: 12 Ways eBooks Can Improve your Life: http://www.coolcatteacher.com/11-reasons-ebooks/
Notetaking and Leaerning: A Summary of Research - http://wac.colostate.edu/journal/vol16/boch.pdf
Answers:
1:1 Devices of one type
1:1 BYOD
Rolling labs of devices
Computer Lab
Limited access