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 * Foundational Components of Digital Writing Workshop and Online Tools for Composing, Conferring, and Publishing **


 * Choice and Inquiry **
 * **Social Bookmarking**- Teachers can use to organize bookmarks and students can use to collaboratively share resources for a project
 * [|Delicious.com] ([|Julie's starter page] and a more complete example from [|Mark Ahlness])
 * [|Diigo]: ([|Julie's starter page] and a more complete example from [|Rachel Boyd's Collection]
 * [|Social Bookmarking in Education] (ideas from teachers)
 * [|Using Social Bookmarking in Schools: Parts 1 and 2] (How to get started)
 * **Blogging**(Web 2.0 integration of online tools)
 * [|Mark Ahlness] (Grade 3): Delicious and [|Flickr]
 * [|Mark Kreul](Grade 4): Literature Circle Podcasts and Smilebox
 * [|Miss Peavey](Grade 2): Voicethread and Smilebox (for Readers Theatre!)
 * [|Rachel Boyd] (Grade 2): Clustr Maps, Google Translators, Videos, and Wordle
 * [|Miss Bishop] (Grade 1): Teacher blog, student blog, and student podcasts for fluency
 * [|April Larramore] (Kindergarten) and [|Ms. Shaw's Kindercrew]: Created by the teacher to archive projects and resources
 * [|Video Podcasts on Quality Commenting on Blogs] (by Third Graders)
 * **Curriculum Based Information Challenges** (e.g., Endangered Sea Turtles, EcoFriendly Toys, Green Warrior River)
 * **[|Google Custom Search]**

**Conferring**
 * **Anne Davis' Writing Blogs**
 * [|Thinking and Writing Wrinkles Gr. 5]
 * [|Newsquest Gr. 4]
 * [|Literature Circles With Pre-service Teachers]
 * [|The WriteWeblog]
 * [|Proof-Revising with Podcasts: 2009 Reading Teacher articl]
 * [|Google Docs]
 * **Wikis**
 * Terry The Tennis Ball: Choose Your Own Adventure Wiki
 * Ms. Ibrahim Grade 2
 * [|Mrs. Coffman’s Grade 2] (Region 10 in Connecticut) – Traveling Bear
 * Grade 2 Technology Teacher
 * Griffin Gazette Grade 4 with voicethreads
 * Write On…Progressive Stories Wiki
 * Mr. Mendell’s 4th Grade Collaborative Wikis
 * [|Great Books Wiki] - collaborative wikispace for K-20 teachers and students to responses to great books
 * Wikijunior Discussion Tabs

**Publishing**
 * **Specific Writing Projects**
 * [|The Monster Exchange Project]
 * [|Flat Stanley Project]
 * [|Wikijunior]
 * [|Google Lit Trips]-
 * For Young Readers > [|The Yellow Balloon by Charlotte Dematons]
 * [|We All Went on Safari by Laurie Krebs]
 * [|Focused Epals Projects], [|Student Explorations], and [|Digital Storytelling Classroom Projects]
 * **Open-Ended Online Composing Tools**
 * **[|Voicethread]**
 * Example: Getting a New Haircut (emergent literacy)
 * Example: [|Weather & Poetry 3rd Grade Class Book]
 * Example: Multiplying and Dividing Fractions in Word Problems (Elementary School)
 * Example: Science Lab Experiment (Secondary Grades)
 * VoiceThread Wikispace for Teachers
 * **Podcasts** (made with [|Audacity] or [|IMovie])
 * [|Mabry Online Podcast Central]
 * More [|tips for creating a podcast in a hurry]
 * **[|Smilebox]**
 * [|Mark Kreul](Grade 4): Literature Circle Podcasts and Smilebox
 * [|Kindergarteners Making Paper and Recycling]
 * [|Fifth Grade Rocks] (multiple uses of Smilebox)
 * **[|Storybird Collaborative Storytelling]**
 * [|The Seed], written by an adult for children
 * [|Goodbye Mrs. Gal-Lima], from Grade 3 students
 * [|The 4 Friends High in the Sky], from Grade 3 students
 * [|One Morning in Mrs. O'Keefe's Grade 1/2 Class]
 * [|The Fruit Flies]by a Grade 1 and Grade 2 student
 * **RealeBooks** (to read) and **RealeWriter** (to write)
 * **Digital Publishing Practices**
 * Class Anthologies (Web 1.0)
 * [|Pocantico Hills Central School][|; Animals in our Backyard]; [|Summer Olympic Sports], [|Civil War for Kids], [|Abraham Lincoln], and [|Children's Encyclopedia of Women] (1998-2010)
 * [|Kids-Learn.org]
 * Digital Portfolios (Web 2.0)
 * [|Room 302]: Example of many Web 2.0 tools used to compose and publish writing and much more!
 * See the great collection of Web 2.0 published work under the blogs and wikis headings above
 * Tools for publishing and archiving digital work
 * Blogs: [|EduBlogs] and [|Class Blogmeister] and [|Blogger.com]
 * Wikis: Wikispaces and [|PBWiki]
 * Podcasts: [|Podomatic] and [|BlogTalkRadio] (see [|example])
 * [|Google Sites]
 * Audio Anthologies
 * [|Radio Willow Web]
 * [|Small Voices Podcast] (Elementary students - to encourage literacy skills by providing a wider audience)
 * [|Mabry Online Podcast Central] (middle school students)


 * Our writing projects from the day**
 * Kim's Storybird for Kindergarten: [|Colors: I Can Read!]
 * Amy's Storybird: [|Before I Was A Mom]
 * Maggie's Storybird: [|School's Out for Summer: Get Your Fun On!]
 * Susan's Storybird: Balance: [|The Story of Mr. Scamper]
 * Linda's Voicethread: [|Color In Our World]


 * Additional Online Tools to Differentiate Your Students Literacy Responses**
 * [|Voxopop]: Voice-based elearning tool
 * [|FlockDraw]: Draw in real time with others
 * [|Dipity]: Find, create, and embed interactive timelines
 * [|Postalz]: Send digital postcards
 * [|Thinklinkr]: Create and share outlines
 * [|LinoIt]: Online stickies