Liz Stephens and Kerry Ballast on TTT tonight. Come learn more about “Inside Writing - Responsive Writing - Purposeful Writing - Social Action Writing”
| Join us on Teachers Teaching Teachers by tuning in through http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times Tonight we will be talking with Liz Stephens and Kerry Ballast about their book that was just released: Using Technology to Improve Adolescent Writing: Digital Make-Overs for Writing Lessons | ||
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| Description |
| Incorporate technology into your writing lessons and captivate the interest of your adolescents (or digital natives) with the guidance of Liz Stephens and Kerry Ballast. Teaching writing in the secondary classroom has dramatically changed. The majority of today’s middle and high school students are using a digital platform and the read-write web for daily communication, often IM-ing (instant messaging), text-ing, (text messaging), and posting blogs, photos, and videos to their personal websites (such as MySpace and Facebook on the Web 2.0). To capture these digital natives’ attention in the classroom and develop good writing skills for life, Stephens and Ballast guide teachers in how to successfully implement technology for writing across the curriculum and create engaging lesson plans. They outline four frames of writing–inside writing, responsive writing, purposeful writing, and social action writing–and present student-centered and inquiry-based reading/writing lessons to connect real-world writing to content area standards. The result is a state-of the-art resource for helping teachers teach every student to write inside and outside of the classroom. |
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| Table Of Contents |
Chapter 1- Writing in a Digital Age Chapter 2- Inside Writing Chapter 3- Responsive Writing Chapter 4- Purposeful Writing Chapter 5- Social Action Writing Chapter 6- Ten of Tens |
| About the Author(s) |
Liz Campbell Stephens teaches graduate courses in Educational Technology and is Director of the Office of Educator Preparation at Texas State University-San Marcos. She serves on the National Writing Project’s Board of Directors and was Director of the Central Texas Writing Project for 11 years. She co-authored Technology, Reading, and Language Arts and has written numerous chapters and papers on technology and literacy. Liz is former high school English teacher and brings that experience to her work as a teacher educator, federal programs director, and consultant. Her research has centered on literacy, technology, and teacher education. Kerry Ballast is a Teacher Consultant for the Central Texas Writing Project and a secondary English language arts teacher with 14 years classroom experience. She has worked with students in grades 6-12 to explore various forms of writing, both traditional and digital. |
