Today I am giving a workshop at the annual MANTLE conference here in Newcastle. This is the second year I have presented at the conference and the third time I have worked with teachers and librarians in the Hunter region of NSW during the last couple of years.
Erica McWilliam in full flight at the Mantle Conference 2015
Erica McWilliam is the Keynote Speaker and she is truly an astonishing speaker and author. I thoroughly recommend that you purchase her book The Creative Workforce: How to Launch Young People into High-Flying Futures.
The workshop focuses upon publishing by students with an emphasis on writing. There will also be references to formative assessment, storytelling and curriculum integration. A review of appropriate publishing tops will be shared with the participants.
Today’s Presentation
Presentation document (pptx 16.6mbyte)
Lesson or topic ideas
Please note that many, if not all, of the suggestions below could be consist of students working in pairs or small teams. Collaboration is always a positive adjunct to any learning endeavour.
- Creative Writing ~ I Was There When…
- Full throttle writing ~ writing as the clock ticks by
- Historical diary ~ The Dead Dude Diaries
- Journaling on the ideas that they learned that week
- Science lab reports
- Field reports on the science or humanities research project
- Process diary for a creative arts project
- Journal describing evolution and development of a Design and Technology Project
- Written elaboration describing the thought processes involved in solving a Mathematics problem
- A report on the discovery and history of as scientific principle
Links
Curriculum Suggestions and Support
BOSTES: Engaging students through literacy and numeracy: Learning through reading and writing
- Literacy Strategy
- Programming
- Sample Lessons: Each of the lesson ideas below could be augmented with an online publishing strategy:
- Geography: Sample Lesson Plan | Text
- History: Sample Lesson Plan | Text
- PDHPE: Sample Lesson Plan | Text
- Science: Sample Lesson Plan | Text
- Lesson pro-forma
- NSW DET: Student Support: Preparing Students To Write (PDF Download)
- eduBlogs: Curriculum Corner: Using Blogs With Students
- The Edublogger: Check Out These Class Blogs!
- An Introduction To Writing Across The Curriculum
Blogging and Students
- 30 Incredible Blogs Written By Students
- Reasons Your Students Should Blog
- Thirteen Thoughts On Student Blogging
- Blogging in the classroom: why your students should write online
- Blogging as a tool for reflection and learning
- Why an English Teacher Introduced Her Class to the World
- Ten Things Your Students Can Blog About Today
Students and writing
- Thirteen Ways To Engage Reluctant Writers
- Great Tools For Publishing the Works of Students
- Reasons why your students should write every day
- Do You Write With Your Students?
- University of Michigan: Sweetland Centre for Writing: Motivating Students to Read and Write in All Disciplines
- Teaching Elementary Students To Be Effective Writers
- Washington University in St. Louis: Using Peer Review To Help Students Improve Writing
- Why All Students Should Write: A Neurological Explanation For Literacy
- Why an English Teacher Introduced Her Class to the World
- Why Do Students Need to Learn How to Write?
- Why Should Students Should Learn To Write For The Public
- Writing Before Writing: Coaching Students to Play and Plan
Publishing Tools
- Edublogs ~ the best publishing platform for educators and students ~ built on the WordPress platform ~ preparing all students for the world of online publishing.
- WordPress ~ WordPress.com now features advertisements ~ a most disappointing development. As a result your school or institution might like to download the WordPress code from WordPress.org and host on your own server. Your tech support team will need to help you.
- Weebly ~ fast, easy and includes an excellent feature set.
Guides and How-To Documents
- Working with Edublogs
- Working with WordPress:
- Beginner’s Guide To Weebly
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