This chapter on digital writing deals with different aspects and uses of blogs, wikis, IM'ing, digital mapping tools, etc., for use in teaching writing.

Sara Williams, Mound HS: School-based Project study: Use of tappedin.org to conduct literature discussions

Saratappedinproject.doc

Kathleen West, Edina HS:School-based Project study: Use of blogs to foster response to literature

AnsonKCblogreport.doc

For a useful resource, go to Coming of Age: lots of digital writing tools:

Coming_of_age_v1-2.pdf

Digital Storytelling at the elementary level

http://www.scott.k12.ky.us/technology/digitalstorytelling/ds.html

Free wikis for teachers at Wikispaces

http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers100K

Center for Digital Storytelling

http://www.storycenter.org/resources.html

Electronic Literature Association: examples of e-poems

http://eliterature.org/

Thom Swiss, University of Minnesota: sample e-poems

http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/swiss/exhibitions.htm