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I’ve been working with Teacher Consultants of the Northern Virginia Writing Project over the last few weeks, and we’ve created a few Google Docs that served as the outline for our sessions. The goal was to give a solid introduction to forums, blogs, and wikis, and to situate those tools in the concepts that underpin the “social web.” We spoke briefly about other tools: image, video, and audio sharing; e-portfolios and e-learning, and related concepts.

Our major concern was to understand the potential that these tools (particularly forums, blogs, and wikis) have for the teaching of writing. I also emphasized the cycle of accessing, sharing, and publishing information as a way to enter into working with technology and to bring those tools to students.

Here are the links to the resources in hopes that they’ll prove helpful to others. Please feel free to leave comments about corrections or to edit the wiki to correct or add.

• The wiki page for the session
• Session 1: Introduction
• Session 2: Asynchronous Writing
• Session 3: Collaborative Writing
• Session 4: The Social Web