How Writers Can Learn From Documented Cases of Revision

This post originates from Poynter.org, a website for journalists. The writer references the revision processes of famous authors, and songwriters. Excerpt: "I know that it is possible to track changes in a story, but my general feeling is that the disappearance of hand-written revisions has been a loss to the writing and learning culture."

Does Digital Media Make Us Bad Writers?

An English professor and a linguist examine how digital media are transforming students’ writing and how writing itself is changing.

Picture This! Building Photo-Based Writing Skills

This is from the New York Times newspaper's learning network. In this lesson, students use photographs to practice writing, vocabulary and skimming skills to develop literacy and/or prepare for standardized tests. Details here.

Writing and Technology: Dealing With Ideas

The great thing about technology as far as writing is concerned is that we need never forget a brilliant idea.

Creative Writing Lessons Can Be Boosted by Multimedia Technology

From Edutopia: Teachers can inspire students' creativity and improve their writing by incorporating multimedia and technology into writing lessons, writes a fifth-grade teacher. Show students vivid photos and video clips and play instrumental music that relates to the scenery to spur student writing. Dave Somoza recommends teachers inspire students with digital tools such as TrekEarth, Microsoft Photo Story 3 or Soundslides.

Texting, tweeting ought to be viewed as GR8 teaching tools, scholar says

Carol L. Tilley, a professor of library and information science at Illinois, says that critics who equate texting with literary degradation are wrong, and that they also overlook the bigger role that texting and its distant cousin, "tweeting," could play in education and research. Details here.

The New Writing Pedagogy

While students are writing more online, both in and out of school, teachers and administrators are challenged with changing the way they think about writing instruction and the tools used to write today. Read more from the November issue of District Administration magazine.