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Six Traits and Technology

Six Traits and Technology. How to Connect the Tools with Improving Writing Instruction. How Wikis & Graphic Organizers Fit The EETT Grants’ Goals. Enhance students’ motivation to write through capitalizing on their interest in social networking in a school setting

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Six Traits and Technology

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  1. Six Traits and Technology How to Connect the Tools with Improving Writing Instruction

  2. How Wikis & Graphic Organizers Fit The EETT Grants’ Goals • Enhance students’ motivation to write through capitalizing on their interest in social networking in a school setting • Advance students’ writing skills by leveraging technological tools to provide feedback, develop ideas, foster collaboration building on Middle School Writing Program and Six Traits Training • Increase technological skills and proficiency of teachers, students, and parents. • Teach concepts of digital citizenship, online safety, and critical information literacy

  3. Donald Graves’ “Conditions” for Writing – Part of the Six Traits Philosophy

  4. Relating Graves’ to Technology Feedback – Mahara feedback/wall, Moodle online writing assignment/forums Authentic Audience – Moodle forums, Mahara Views to other classes E-Portfolio Modeling/Preparing for Contexts – posting professional models, students seeing other students Revision – MyAccess comments, Moodle comments Environment (Choice/Time) – Digital citizenship, Openness to innovation, creativity

  5. Writing Process • Drafting • Revising • Editing Prewriting Organizing Drafting Revising Editing Publishing Prewriting Organizing Moodle MyAccess Digital Storytelling: Advanced Word, Powerpoint, Podcasting, Photo, Video E-Portfolio Publishing

  6. Benefits from Using Moodle • Accountability • Ability to Keep Store Files and Activities from Year to Year • Differentiating Instruction • Ability to Monitor and Adjust • Ability to Participate (some who may be shy) • Ability to Express Themselves

  7. Prewriting (developing and sharing ideas with teacher guidance): (Moodle) Forum – threaded discussion Chat – whole class discussion Drafting/Composing – Moodle – Online Writing Assignment, Posted to Forum (to get feedback), Single File Upload MyAccess – my own prompts or Intellimetric prompts Editing – MyAccess – My Editor, Comments, Using Computer Feedback Moodle – Online Writing Assignment Comments

  8. Applications for Presentation Trait and Motivation Mahara – Design Webpage with Images, Text, and Video Glogster – Make a Digital Poster with stylized text boxes, images, words and animations Audacity – Make a podcast with an audio recording that can be uploaded to Itunes Photostory – Digital pictures narrated over to tell a story or teach lesson (Ken Burns Effect) Moviemaker – Make a video that can be uploaded to Schooltube, Teachtube, etc. Comiqsor Make Beliefs Comix– students can create comic strip style illustrations and dialogue boxes VoiceThread/Google Wave – Narrated pictures or powerpoints that can be shared and responded by in either voice or writing by students

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