Literacy Resources

I was asked earlier this week what my favourite online collaborative tool was and although I did suggest one, I didn’t really want to miss some others out.  So here are my top 5: Wikis – these are, I think, the most flexible tool of all.  They can  be used just for text but are [...]

This is the second post in a short series about collaborative writing.  It was written collaboratively using Etherpad at http://etherpad.com/XHq0OmeA0o . Collaborative writing is a new skill for many children.   Letting go of your own writing and allowing others to adapt/change/edit it can be an uncomfortable feeling. So what can we do? @AngelaStockman  suggests [...]

 With the development of online collaborative tools there are now so many opportunities for collaborative writing.  So wanting to make the most of these opportunities this post about collaborative writing has been written collaboratively using Etherpad  http://etherpad.com/XHq0OmeA0o . I am going to split the writing into two posts: models of collaborative writing and collaborative writing with children [...]

With the introduction of Web 2.0 tools into the classroom, collaborative writing is now becoming a reality.  This is not the collaboration of writing that we used to know where one child wrote and the other had the ideas or took turns in writing words.  This is one which can be extremely powerful. I recently read a wonderful [...]

I am thinking about collaborative writing at the moment and I also love comic creation sites as they have so many uses in the classroom.  With Pixton you can do both.  Pixton allows you to create comics and then make them available for others to remix. Comics are a great way to show pace through [...]