Narrative Techniques

For me, one measure of an effective writing lesson is when my students are all clamoring to share what they just wrote, and spontaneous conferences are happening all over the room. That is finally happening in my writing workshop thanks to great resources found online and shared by colleagues.

We’ve been working on narrative writing […]

The Magic of Voice Typing in Google Docs

On most days, my students have the choice of writing by hand in their notebook or typing on their digital writing notebook during our writing workshop. Now they have a third option, voice-to-text dictation.

Last week, instead of a writing mini-lesson, we had a tool mini-lesson. They all grabbed their earbuds and laptops so I […]

Tech Tools for Writing – Survey Results

This term I was planning on teaching three optional staff tech integration workshops around the theme of tech tool for writing. I posted a survey on my blog requesting suggestions and I received really useful responses.

Here is a HUGE thank you to all who responded. Not only did I use many of the […]

What Tech Tools are You Using to Support Writers?

I am preparing a three-part workshop for elementary teachers to familiarize them with different tech tools they could use to support their students as writers.

I am just getting started planning it. I know I will share some tools currently being used by teachers at my school. For example, one teacher has her students posting […]

Does Your Blog Have a Gender?

Today, Lancerlord shares information about The Gender Genie. Paste a chunk of text from your blog into the Gender Genie, and it will make an educated guess as to whether the chunk was written by a male or female.

How does it work? The site says…

Inspired by an article in The New York Times […]