This is a presentation three teachers put together reflecting on their work developing a Digital Reading Writing Workshop in middle school classrooms.

1. Digital Reading and Writing
Workshop
How do we use technology to
increase students’ skills, interests,
and interactions?

2. Wikis
• Increase in amount of writing
• Increase in revising and editing
• Increase in collaboration
• Increase in student-student feedback

3. Wikis:
Increased revision and editing

4. Wikis:
Increased revision and editing

5. Wikis: Revising
Student revisions from draft
three to draft six– enhanced
transitions and language.

6. Wikis: Revising
Added transitions during the writing process.

7. Wikis: Editing
Student editing work between drafts.

8. Wikis:
Collaboration
Three
students
collaborate on
a single essay

9. Wikis:
Collaboration
Two students
collaborate on
a single essay

10. Wiki:
Student-Student Feedback
6th grade wiki. These are comments in response to a
fellow student’s narrative essay.

11. Wiki: Increase in quantity of writing
STUDENT 1 (8th Grade)
This is a sample essay from
the beginning of the school
year. The following screen
shot from his wiki will display
the growth in quantity that this
student experienced
throughout the year.

12. Wiki: Increase in quantity of writing
Student 1 (8th grader):
Here is a sample of an
essay that the same
student created two
months later. His
volume of writing
greatly increased.

13. Wikis:
Increase in quantity of writing

14. Blogs and Discussion Boards
• Increase critical and analytical skills
• Increase student-student discourse
• Increase student participation

15. Discussion Board
Increase Participation
• The total posts for this class was 100. Only 16
students were actually present this day. (Post)

16. Discussion Board:
Student-Student Discourse
Student Reply to the Parent Post: “I definitely think your
theme was a very good answer! I do have one question
though. How do you know that is the theme of the story?”

17. Blog:
Analytical skills and student-student discourse
• Student blog and blog response on the
ending in The Giver.

18. Journal Feature
• Allows a private setting for student work
• Allows teacher to differentiate level of
questions about text
• Provides a space to free write and gain
stamina

19. Journal
Differentiation in questions
Teacher posing a
specific question
to a student on
the journal
feature.

20. Journal
Improving writing stamina
A student self-reflection- written in 30
minutes.