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Using Google Docs as a Modelling Book for Writing

goo.gl/pBnEpJ

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Plan for today...

  • Welcome
  • Provocation
  • Presentation Content
  • Playtime and exploring

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Goals for today...

To help students who have

  • Nothing to write about (ideas)
  • No format to follow (structure)
  • Lack of words (vocabulary and language)
  • No reason to write (purpose)

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Rethinking Writing

Handwriting drafts versus drafting using a device - thoughts?

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Today we will explore...

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SAMR and Google Docs

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More SAMR examples

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Classroom Example of Using Etherpad - Jill Hammonds

Watch Jill using the recipe and Etherpad with a Year 7 & 8 class at Ashhurst Primary followed by a debrief with teachers.

This could be done with a Google Doc

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Recipe for Writing

So, here is the recipe:

Ingredients: Setting the scene, Tuning in the ear, Developing the character, Creating the action, The resolution.

Method:

1. Bring your reader into a powerful setting of the scene where your story is to unfold. It helps to imagine that you have a digital camera and have taken a photo of the place where your story is to happen.

2. Introduce some sound into the scene to further engage the senses of the reader.

3. Have your character appear dramatically within the setting. We should get to know something of this character by the way you portray them.

4. Create the action that will bind the reader into the story and continue to develop this to the penultimate moment.

5. Resolve the story with some revisiting of the initial scene, the sounds or the character that was central to the storyline but something has changed - perhaps forever. Leave your reader with something magic to hold on to.

An example of using a Recipe for Writing

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Writing Ideas for Teachers

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Mind Mapping - Coggle.it or Bubbl.us

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Examples of Writing

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Writing Group Template

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Let’s Play

goo.gl/YaNGeU

  • Explore the resources
  • Make a copy of the template and share it with some friends. Have a go with the “Recipe for Writing”.
  • Setup your Term 2 Writing Group Templates

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Editing using Wordle

Wordle.net Does not work on Chrome need to use Safari or Other 64 bit Browser

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Editing using Speak Selection

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Using Suggest Edits

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Using Revision History

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Using Research Function

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More Add Ons

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Commenting

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Possible Publishing Tools

Tellagami

Print

Book Creator

Blogger

Puppet Pals

ePortfolio

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Using Google Docs -School Examples

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Badge Challenge: Talk to me….

Dictate your answer to the following question in this doc

  1. What can you commit to implementing into your personal and/or classroom practice?

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Contact:

Mark Maddren

mark.maddren@core-ed.org

@markmaddren12