A skeletal slide set used to facilitate a job-embedded session on basic tools & approaches to collaborative writing in online spaces.
The approach was to move from the left of a spectrum that is spontaneous and short-lived writing... toward the other end of the spectrum, featuring writing for a more formal purpose, and better longevity.
1. writing
thinking
COLLABORATIng
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2. self-sponsored writing: a writing
that belongs to the writer, not to an
institution, with the result that people—
students, senior citizens, employees,
volunteers, family members, sensible and non-
sensible people alike—want to compose and
do—on the page and on the screen and on the
network—to each other.
~Deborah Brandt, in NCTE’s Report on “Writing in the 21st Century”
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3. “First, we have moved beyond a pyramid-like,
sequential model of literacy development in
which print literacy comes first and digital
literacy comes second and networked
literacy practices, if they come at all, come
third and last.”
~Kathleen Blake Yancey, NCTE’s Report on “Writing in the 21st Century,” http://goo.gl/ySOwv
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4. NCTE’s 21st Century Literacies Framework:
• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
• Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems
collaboratively and cross-culturally
• Design and share information for global communities to
meet a variety of purposes
• Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of
simultaneous information
• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts
• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these
complex environment
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