Slides to support session from Building Learning Communities, 2010

1. Real Reasons to Write
Building Learning Communities, July 2010

3. The “New Literacies”
Practices Toolkit
✤ Authentic Audience
✤ Multimodal Composing
✤ Interest Driven Participation
✤ “Clickable Footprint” (putting
knowledge to work through
digital artifacts)

6. Film, re-mix, podcast, blog, publish
Comment, post, collaborate
Mash, link, media “clipping”
Playing, uploading, sharing
Tag, annotate, tweet, subscribe
Favorite, bookmark, highlight

8. Writing “Non-Negotiables”
Development of a unique, strong voice.
Concise, packed, lively writing (strong, forceful language)
Authority and Confidence
Immediate and specific examples and details
Organization
REAL WRITING FOR REAL AUDIENCES
(purposeful, authentic instructional contexts)

9. How do we get there?
Deal with students’ emotions surrounding writing
Frequent writing opportunities paired with timely feedback
Model and teach self-regulation
Develop a strong class “community of writers
Exercise students’ writing vocabularies

12. “Learning to read and write is not
learning how texts stick together but
how people stick together through
literate means.”
- Brandt, 42, 1990.

13. Digital Story Videos Here (see wiki)

14. What is a memoir?
Retrospection
“Slice of Life” Story
Reflection
Reflects what they
Student writers mirror see.
themselves.
“Creating”
themselves.

15. Steps of “Construction”
• Prewriting (i.e., “What do I have to say?)
• Artifact Search
• Storyboard Development
• Script Sharing Circle
• Script Revision
• Construction
• Screening, Viewing, and Discussion

16. Knowledge Transforming Writing

24. What is next?