Integrating Writing Into The Curriculum

Objectives

• Apply Common Curriculum Goals of technology integration into your content area
• Use WriteSite, an online writing management tool, to contribute to and read other contributions of an online discussion
• Learn a classroom-tested response structure that provides responders with a method to communicate with others in a meaningful and respectful manner
• Practice the response structure in a guided practice model
• Apply the response structure to an author's rough draft
• Apply the WriteSite as an Instructor/Teacher
• Use a scoring guide to review, evaluate, and revise writing for meaning and clarity
• Use WriteSite to generate a reports, anthology, and student work sample

...As technology filters out to every aspect of our society, it is essential that students not develop technological skills in isolation. Rather, technology should be integrated into every content area. By providing access to information, opening pathways to communication, and facilitating personal understanding, technology supports learning in all subjects.

Project 1: Practice FreeWriting (a pre-writing activity)

Go to ws.oetc.org/cgi-bin/soesd (opens in a new browser window)

Click on Login in the top navigation bar ~ Choose the instructor "Project Write"
Login as yourself: Choose your name Enter your password "pass**" (*=your initials)
Click on Create Discussion next to 1. Freewriting (under the Status) Read the prompt and add to the discussion Click Submit when finished (let's take 5 minutes)
To view FreeWriting contributions Click on "My Projects" Click on 1. Freewriting under the "Project" heading Click on Discussion (next to "Postings")

Project 2: Practice the Response Structure

Click on My Projects in the top toolbar
Click on Create Discussion under Status, next to 2. Practice Responding Project
Click on Discussion (next to "Postings")
Read the author above you and below you. Use the response structure to comment on their writing.
Read the prompt and respond to the "author" using the Response Structure "I noticed..." "I wondered..." "What if..."

Introduce the Imaginary Narrative Activity and create a rough draft

Project 3: Respond to a draft (a step in the writing process)

Click on My Projects in the top toolbar
Click on Showing Writing ~ Imagary Narrative under the "Project" heading
Click on View Contributors next to Contributors
Click on Rough Draft next to your name, view your writing Click on Rough Draft next to the author above your name
After reading the piece, click on Respond to this Writing Practice using the response structure to provide feedback to the author ("I noticed", "I think") Repeat for the author below your name

Project 4: Science ~ It's Amazing

Project 5: Professional Development Model: Peter Elbow ~ Writing Without Teachers

Administrative Rights

• Requires "login" in as the Instructor (help with login)
• Generating reports:
  ~ Project Report: Freewriting> Report > No Responses
  ~ Student Report: Viani, N. > Report > Responses
  ~ Print on a single sheet (one author per page)
• Project: Hide/Show (Delete under construction)
• Project: Users > Add/Remove All
• User: Review useful at parent conferences (includes assignment)
• User: Viani, N. > Reports > All Projects > Report-No Responses (w/o assignment)

Online Writing Resources