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Because Digital Writing Matters: Improving Student Writing In Online And Multimedia Environments (2010)

by National Writing Project(Favorite Author)

4.13 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0470407727 (ISBN13: 9780470407721)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Jossey-Bass

review 1: I gleaned some valuable information from book. One of the beneficial parts of the book is located in the Introduction (11) where the authors cite from the book Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century “listing the new skills of participatory culture.” The chapter on “The Landscape of Digital Writing” interests me because of the digital story-telling format. I am intrigued with the possibilities of using multimedia to enhance narration. In “Revising the Writing Process,” using wikis to create a collaborative summary invites me to try this approach. “Ecologies for Digital Writing” shares strategies for teaching what plagiarism is. I find a few of those activities interesting and applicable. The Web Resources s... moreection, at the back of the book, lists several websites that I plan to explore as I plan, develop, and create my online teaching experiences.My main disappointment with the book is its scarcity of practical lessons and examples. I would like to see the summary wiki compared to the traditional summary assignment. The digital story-telling section would be more meaningful with examples of student pieces. The book is more promotional and prescriptive than I had hoped. It seems to be shaped for an audience who is new to using digital technology in the classroom. I finished my reading thinking, the next book in the series will be the one with the lessons, examples, and trouble-shooting ideas: Because Sharing Strategies for Digital Writing Matters to Readers
review 2: this book wasn't what i thought it was going to be when i picked it up. i was hoping it would be a book on improving one's own digital writing, however it was an educational policy book centered on how to help teachers and administrators work within good pedagogical theory while using technological tools to their maximum advantage to better prepare students for the real world ahead.additional, this book spent a little bit of time talking about an area of policy that's often overlooked - the continuous evaluation of a program to ensure that it's meeting the goals laid out for it and suggests that administrators should look for ways to modify programs to their needs, implement new ones and let dysfunctional programs die if they are utilizing tools w/ no practical application beyond that setting.in all, from a policy development / implementation / evaluation standpoint, i found it to be an enjoyable read, if not what i expected and in a subject matter i'm not at all versed in --- but for a career in public administration, i find it useful to look to a variety of disciplines for new techniques etc. less

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