Here are the bare bones of my presentation. Its just a list of tools to get students engaged in the writing process. Tools don't teach, teachers do.

1. Reluctant Writers
Quinns Beach TDS
Engaging
A lifetime to DREAM, EXPLORE, DISCOVER
with
Digital Tools
Bhavneet Singh

2. Why you need
a digital
identity?

3. Explicit
Teaching

4. Engagement

5. Ideas! Structure! Vocabulary!
Language! Purpose!
I haven’t got anything
to write about!
I don’t know how to
write it!
I don’t know how
to make it sound
interesting?
I don’t know
what words to
use!
Why should I?
I don’t want to
write.

6. Ideas

7. Purpose

8. Audience

9. Role of
-Writer
-Authors
-Publishers

10. Celebrating

11. Feedback

12. Ideas
★ Give them something to write about
★ Provide scaffolds - writing frameworks,
personal experiences, images, etc
★ Read and reflect on good pieces of writing

13. Vocabulary
★ Exposure
★ Use different tools
★ Teach about language features in fun way
★ Quick short activities
■ Vocabulary games
■ Sentence structure games
■ Punctuation games
■ Spelling games
Worlde
Tagxedo
Visual
Thesaurus

14. Audience &
Purpose
★ Different forms of communication
★ Who is the target audience?
★ Writing for a blog, movie, puppet show,
website, etc

15. Digital Tools

16. Piclits
★ Images
★ Vocabulary
★ Use any Visual Prompts to get the
imagination going

17. Pinterest - Flickr
★ visual prompts
★ ideas

18. www.literacyshed.com
www.lendmeyourliteracy.com
www.readwritethink.org
www.100wc.net

19. Storybird
Storyjumper
photopeach

20. Microsoft Moviemaker
Microsoft PhotoStory

21. Be Creative
★ Build your wild self
★ Create a car
★ Create a monster
★ Create a Superhero

22. Other fun tools
www.powtoon.com
www.voki.com
www.animoto.com
www.glogster.com (edu version)

23. Other Apps
★ Book Creator
★ Explain
Everything
★ Educreations
★ HaikuDeck
★ Prezi
★ Showbie
★ AudioBoom
★ Grafio Lite
★ Story Buddy 2
★ Adobe Voice
★ My Story
★ Glogster
★ iMovie
★ Stopmotion
★ Superimpose
★ Greenscreen
★ Inkflow
★ Inspiration
★ Popplet
★ Thinkglink
★ VoiceThread
★ QR Code Creator
★ Montaj
★ Piccollage
★ Aurasma
★ Voice Photo
★ Sock Puppets
★ Puppet Pals
★ Puppets Edu
★ Tellagami
★ FlipGrid
★ Balloon+

24. Publish
Website builders
★www.weebly.com
★www.wix.com
★Wordpress
★ Edublogs

25. Feedback
★ Interactive feedback - VoiceThread
★ Digital Feedback - Adobe, WOrd….
★ Tweet the link to the published work
★ Invite parents and community