Sunday, February 8, 2009

Thing #6

I checked out the website for Writeboard. This would be a great site for organizing student writings. I believe with this site that it is possible for each student to have a portfolio of their writings that I would keep up with through Backpack which integrates with Writeboard. This site could also be used for organizing a student newspaper as a group project. What I love about the site is that any writings can be edited and old versions of it are saved as well as the new. A simple click will get you back to the original. This would allow students to edit each other's work without destroying the original. Students would also be able to e-mail me their documents from their home computers instead of telling me they forgot it, or lost it. One concern about the site is that until I actually work with it in setting up student portfolios, I am unsure of how easy it will be to keep track of all of the student writings. Link to this site - http://www.writeboard.com/
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  1. AnonymousFebruary 9, 2009 at 6:52 AM

    This site has some great possibilities. In this digital age there is no reason to lose everything you have when a computer crashes. I used to e-mail myself documents to ensure that they were safe and secure somewhere on the web just because I have had the experience of losing both back-up copies and my computer in a move.(this was before the convenient age of thumb-drives and affordable laptops). The option to collaborate a work with others would probably be a very useful tool in the classroom. As a teacher you could even add notes in student work on how they can revise their work. With more and more things going to an online venue, this kind of program will be a valuable tool in the classrooms of the future.

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