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"When the Japanese blog-hosting website "Maho No Irando" (jap. for "Magic Island") found out that its users were using their blogs to post fragments of novels and soon responded to the calls by developing a more specialized software which allowed users to rate and comment each others novels, they didn't know that they had just initiated the evolution of a new literary genre. The first literary genre which evolved out of modern 21st century technology: The Cellphone Novel "

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"Twitter Novels are one use of Twitter that many of us would never consider – but there’s a growing number of Twitter Novelists exploring the medium. Today Brandon J. Mendelson, author of The Falcon Can Hear The Falconer (a Twitter Novel) gives some tips for writing Twitter Novels."

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D.C. Everest Social Studies Department actively promotes reading by teaching content reading strategies, using historical fiction and non-fiction in the classroom, and teaching historical research skills.

Included are helpful Social Studies Reading links.

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How to Write Sharp and Snappy Blog Posts

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10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports

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The Best Places Where Students Can Write For An “Authentic Audience” Larry Ferlazzo

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write4net

Publish full articles without needing a blog or site. There's no setup or login. Just write your text and Write4net will publish it using your Twitter account. That's it. So easy. And free!

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Looking for a way to get your students more engaged? Mixbook is proud to present Mixbook for Educators, a program that allows educators even easier access to the most powerful suite of digital storytelling tools on the web. Check out the stories below to hear how Mixbook can help YOU.

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How the Web and the Weblog have changed Writing
by Philip Greenspun in May 2009

Site Home : Writing : One Page

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Write It!

Years ago at a language arts in-service training, one of the presenters showed us a game called “Write It!”. I used it a few times, tweaked it a bit, and now its one of my favorite writing activities … and my students’ too.

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How Twitter Makes You A Better Writer

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EtherPad: Really real-time collaboration
EtherPad lets multiple people work on the same text simultaneously.

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Are instant messaging and text messaging killing language? To hear what the popular media say, a handful of OMGs (oh my god) and smiley faces, along with a paucity of capital letters and punctuation marks, might be bringing English to its knees.

Although journalists tend to sensationalize the linguistic strangeness of "online lingo," quantitative analyses of instant messaging conversations and text messages reveal that abbreviations, acronyms, and even misspellings are comparatively infrequent, at least among college-age students. For example, in a study I did of college students' instant messaging conversations, out of 11,718 words, only 31 were "online lingo" abbreviations, and only 90 were acronyms (of which 76 were LOL). In a study of college students' text messaging, my colleague Rich Ling and I found a few more lexical shortenings; yet the grand total of clear abbreviations was only 47 out of 1,473 words, which is hardly overwhelming.

Yes, young people sometimes accidentally slip a btw (by the way) into a school essay. But a recent study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project confirms that middle school and high school students understand what kind of language is appropriate in what context (Lenhart, Smith, & Macgill, 2008). What's more, scholars of new media language, such as David Crystal and Beverly Plester, remind us that the new technologies encourage creativity, which can spill over into school writing (Crystal, 2008; Plester, Wood, & Bell, 2008).

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Writing with laptops
Mar4

Written by:Dan Maas
3/4/2009

Dear “Powered Up Writing” Students, Teachers, and Parents,

Across LPS, we have pilot projects of ASUS EeePCs in classrooms. We hope that you are enjoying the new computers and are learning more than ever before. Many people are asking about how your classroom has changed now that you have the EeePC laptops. Can you help us tell your story?

Here are some questions we have:

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Maine 2nd graders exchange Tweets

ORONO, Maine (AP) -- Twitter, the online social networking service that's become popular with celebrities and politicians, is linking second-grade classes in two Maine towns.

Mrs. White's class in Orono has been Twittering for about a month with Mr. Thompson's class in Greene, exchanging messages that can't exceed 140 characters.

Debbie White said she decided to bring the micro-blogging site to her classroom to help her pupils learn writing skills by composing messages, known as Tweets.

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website is the work of Traci Gardner and brings together her blogs, educational materials, and hobbies.

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Writing: It Ain’t the Same Anymore

* By Trent Batson
* 05/07/08

Is the essay a native electronic text? No. Can rhetorical elements of the essay be better taught in a form that is native? Probably.

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