Using Technology with Teaching Writing in the Content Areas

Current research continues to reveal the importance of emphasizing writing as a process. This recursive process encourages student writers to test, evaluate, revisit, and clarify ideas. The opportunity to focus on one step at a time — to reflect and discover voice and ideas along the way — helps writing become an opportunity for learning.

The manual is based on Teaching Writing in the Content Areas (Urquhart, V. A. & McIver, M. C., 2005) and will provide teachers with a variety of technology tools to add to their practice.

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• discuss the writing process and ways that technology, effective instructional practices, and student writing come together to improve learning,
• learn which Web sites and technologies support the writing process,
• learn how to locate and use rubrics to assess learning and evaluate student writing,
• learn how to implement an action plan for integrating technology into writing instruction when you return to the classroom.

• Teaching Writing in the Content Areas
• Teaching Writing in the Content Areas Workshop
• Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works (Workshop)