Technology Resources for Writing Instruction by Crystal M.H. Cook https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816 This Padlet is an idea splash highlighting digital resources that teachers can use for writing instruction. Please post a note indicating the web address of the resource you investigated as well as your review of the site. In your review, include where the resource fits best into the writing process (i.e.: prewriting, drafting, revising) and what skills or strategies it addresses (i.e.: ideas, organization, word choice, voice, sentence fluency, conventions, presentation). en-us 2016-11-07 22:27:25 UTC 2016-11-30 01:42:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/aws/6385699/58a72b90bced9482a68177f2ee610d0e/keyboard_621831_1280.jpg Story Jumper https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139417729 http://www.storyjumper.com/main/teacher
This tool allows students to online access the directors for an assignment from the professor. They are to create a book online and then share it with their classmates. I think it would be best in drafting and re-vising once the students already know what they are talking about. It also helps with the presentation of materials students are working on and word choice so that the pictures their book match with what they have written. 
-Lauren]]> 2016-11-22 17:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139417729 http://www.clpgh.org/storymaker/ https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139418208 This website is a fun, creative writing resource for creating a story.  It would fit best in the drafting part of the writing process. The resource helps with ideas and organization because there are pre-loaded ideas on the website but the student can still choose what they want to do with the story. If a student is having troubles with formulating ideas, this might be a good guide for them. 
-Frankie

]]> 2016-11-22 17:13:33 UTC https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139418208 http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/flash_pie.htm https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139418261 This resource fits into the process of writing poetry. It teaches the types of poetry and gives examples of each. It helps with word choice in poems because it lets you fill in the blanks of the poems with anything from their word bank. ]]> 2016-11-22 17:13:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139418261 Popplet https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139419392 http://popplet.com
This resource is a great way for students that have iPads available to them to organize their thoughts during the prewriting stage. Once they have a topic and facts about that topic, students can use Popplet to organize these ideas. ]]> 2016-11-22 17:17:43 UTC https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139419392 Glogster: http://edu.glogster.com/?ref=com https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139419865 This website would work in really any step of the writing process. It allows for students to take notes and write stories as well as share those notes with visitors of the site. I think it would best fit in the drafting portion of the process as it allows students to create a story and right on the site. It really focusses on revising until you like the story. ]]> 2016-11-22 17:19:26 UTC https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139419865 NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139420093 This is a great source to use for older grade writing. It allows students to use technology throughout their whole writing process. It helps students put their ideas down electronically on the site and can set word-count goals. If students are using this to use as a tool during reading a novel, they are abel to take notes and look back on them while they write their papers. ]]> 2016-11-22 17:20:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139420093 Drafting Board https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139420124 https://www.icivics.org/products/drafting-board
This resource is a great way for students to construct an argumentative essay. It allows students to use different tools in the program to work through their writing process. It teaches the students how to understand the issues they would be taking a stance on, before they form an opinion. Then, it helps them use evidence to support their claim, and how to appropriately address the opposing view point.

]]> 2016-11-22 17:20:21 UTC https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139420124 Protagonize https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139420149 http://www.protagonize.com/
This resource helps students organize their writing, whether it be poetry, or a different kind of writing. Students log in and have their own "profile" which saves their work in one place. They have the option of working collaboratively or solo on their work. I would say that this website fits best in the prewriting/drafting stages because it has students summarize and organize their thoughts and also gives students a place to start writing.]]> 2016-11-22 17:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139420149 Kid Blog brittanykuehn02 https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139420352 http://kidblog.org/home/

Kid Blog is a really great resource for teachers to use when having students publish their writing. The students post in a secure and safe environment online. This tool can be used for K-12 education and the teacher is able to manage the posts, as well as comment on them. Additionally, this resource allows the students to connect with a global audience.]]> 2016-11-22 17:21:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139420352 Go https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139420619 2016-11-22 17:21:54 UTC https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139420619 Popplet https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139420625 http://www.popplet.com
This resource is a great way for students to organize their thinking. This website would definitely be used to get students thinking about what they want to write/ organize their thinking in a way so that they could write. I could see myself using this to write papers now because of how useful it is to get thoughts down/ quotes I'd like to see in my paper. ]]> 2016-11-22 17:21:56 UTC https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139420625 Glogster www.glogster.com https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139420746 This site seems very engaging and would be a great tool to use when students are prewriting to gather their ideas or make notes about their topic. They could also use it for publishing as they share the final product with their teacher or class. This site could even be used for the steps in between as they write, revise, and edit their digital poster. ]]> 2016-11-22 17:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139420746 StoryJumper https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139420768 storyjumper.com 
I used the story jumper website to put together a book. The site was very user friendly, which I felt that any student grades 2 or 3 and up could use to compose a book online. It would be great to have students pre-write or plan ahead of time the topic of their story, so that the writing is focused and organized, rather than planned last minute as they wrote. I think this would be a great tool to use after the student has written the entire story in class, so that using this website is the final publishing stage of the writing process.  
]]> 2016-11-22 17:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139420768 story jumper https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139424885 Storyjumper.com 

This website is exciting and engaging for students to compose their own writing piece. It is also a great source to challenge students to go through the entire writing process and have it all laid out for them to work through every detail of the final story piece. It is also a great tool for other students in the class to be able to access and read stories that other students have created. ]]> 2016-11-22 17:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139424885 Tagul https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139499021 https://tagul.com/
This resource would work best in the formative stage of writing. One way Tagul could be used is to show students words they use repeatedly throughout a paper. Also, a writer could copy their paper into Tagul, eliminating all the words like "the" and "and" to see if the big words that stick out in the collage are words that revolve around the main idea of their writing. Tagul is a great resource and would be used in a variety of ways throughout the grade levels. ]]> 2016-11-23 01:57:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cryscook/snc110816/wish/139499021