Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and Other Digital Tools

See how to use various digital tools-including blogs, wikis, digital mapping, online chat, digital storytelling, podcasts, e-portfolios, and others-to teach writing in the classroom. Packed with examples of teaching activities and student writing, this one-of-its-kind book demonstrates how to use search engines and digital mapping to develop information, online discussion tools and blogs to formulate ideas, Wikis to write collaboratively, digital storytelling and poetry to create multimodal texts, podcasts and vlogs to create audio and video texts, online commenting tools to provide peer feedback, and much more. Included are links to new tools and activities on the authors' constantly updated Web site, http://digitalwriting.pbwiki.com.