digital tools like blog, RSS, and social book marking

3. Part I Summary of Chapter 2
Generality: How new options for gathering tagging, and saving information allow
students to make their own choices
Background: Shifts of Composing

4. In the past Today
Raw Materials Confined to the
school or local
library
Traditional news, citizen journalism, academic titles, self-published
books, major media outlets, whoever can post a video (grow minute by
minute)
Understanding of
Constitution of
literacy
writing and reading Technical stuff + the ethos stuff( mind-set toward open and
collaborative process)

5. Example: doing research process
In the past: a topic that the teacher selected, the book that librarian selected, note cards or
outline pages that were well scripted. 2-3 weeks.
Today: begin and end with google search and other options
more and more writers: digital tools → search information → collaborate with peers →
revise → submit

6. Students have more initiatives in writing,also they can search and
choose information by themselves.
Require a set of critical sensibilities about gathering electronic pieces of text
Require a set of critical sensibilities about gathering, organizing, and integrating information
into our writing.

7. Three tools to organize and reflect on the mass quantities of
information
※RSS(Really simple Syndication)
Netvibes: www.netvibes.com
Feedly: https://feedly.com/i/discover
Rss reader: https://www.rss.com
※Social bookmarking
Diigo: www.diigo.com
Clipmarks: clipmarks.com
Delicious: delicious.com
※ Blogging Basic
Edublogs: edublogs.org
Class Blogmeister: classblogmeister.com
Ning: ning.com

8. Part II
1. What do you know about RSS?
1. In your opinion, what can RSS be used to do?

10. Really simple syndication (or rich
site summary), commonly known as
RSS, allows readers to subscribe to
web content, just as they might
choose to subscribe to a magazine
and receive it at home rather than
go purchase it from a store.
1. Netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com/en
2. Feedly: https://feedly.com/i/discover
3. Rss reader: https://www.rss.com

12. Example: Teacher and students

13. Social Bookmarking
1. How do you share your favorite websites with others?
1. What can you do if you want to visit your favorite website(s) from
other computers?

14. What is it?
● Invites the user to organize information that has already been found and share it with
others; a human touch to sorting and filtering.
● Users save links to web pages that they want to remember and share.
○ They are public, but can be saved privately
○ Shared only with specified people or groups
● Advantages to a digital writing workshop….
○ Access to websites everywhere: home, school, friends house
○ A teacher can set up a social bookmarking account and deliver through RSS
■ Teacher would give the URL to their social bookmarker account and invite
them to subscribe
■ Teacher would tag links on that account for student access

16. Other Examples...
https://www.commoncraft.com/video/social-bookmarking
Have you heard of Pinterest?
Other Examples….
www.diigo.com
www.clipmarks.com

20. Some knowledge about blog
Role for educators:
Post assignments and announcement; have students respond to teacher-posted prompts; have
online discussion.
Benefits for students:
Students can share and get feedback on their own writing, allow them to set up their own online
presence and give and receive feedback from classmates.
Advantages for writers:
The blog’s author can take feedback on her own blog and use it for future posts or revisions.

21. Part III
How do you integrate these three digital tools into
Writing Workshop?