Writing Ideas from NWP
(Note: this was an email from the National Writing Project that was sent out to all of this year’s Summer Institute participants but we thought it was a good list of resources to share out to a wider audience.)
Hello,
We hope you enjoyed your experience writing and responding to colleagues nationally through the E-Anthology this summer. There are more opportunities to extend the excitement of writing online and reaching a larger audience for your students and yourselves. Below are a few examples that we are familiar with that you might want to consider. Why not take a few minutes before the school year starts in earnest to explore them to see if they fit into your curriculum?
Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/nwpsites/writing_our_future.csp
For high school teachers and mentors who would like to capitalize on young people’s interest in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, Google and the National Writing Project have teamed up to create Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future. You will be receiving a special bulletin shortly with full details on participating in this timely project.
Writing Matters: What’s Your Story?
http://www.writingmatters.org/
Writing Matters offers online writing instruction for middle schools. It features genre studies, animations, lessons, publishing tools and professional development. The Writing Matters portal is set up to provide teachers access to lessons plans, classroom visual and an online location to collect, evaluate and publish student work.
Click! Photography Changes Everything
http://click.si.edu/
NWP teacher-consultants and summer institute participants are invited to contribute writing about the impact of photography in their lives to a new project of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative: Click! Photography Changes Everything. This project provides an opportunity to reflect on the history, spread, practice, and power of photography by inviting written reflections on photography to be submitted through its participatory website.
The National Conversation on Writing
http://comppile.tamucc.edu/NCoW/index.htm
What do people write and read every day? What makes people feel they are writers (or not)? Through online video, audio, and print texts The National Conversation on Writing hopes to encourage a discussion on these questions.
Have a magnificent school year!!!
The E-Team
