This site is dedicated to helping teachers and students work in a 21st century digital writing classroom. This site is a creation of Young Writers Project, a Vermont nonprofit.

Happy grand leap into spring. Wow!

Submitted by kfolley on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 9:20am

Williston STUDENTS,

While this is a 'school' project, we hope you will use this space to share your ideas, creativity and work. As with all YWP projects -- and your school -- there is one primary rule: be civil and respectful. You are also encouraged to participate in youngwritersproject.org or respond to the prompts on that site for potential publication in newspapers around the state or on Vermont Public Radio.  Send us that thought-provoking writing and art!

Williston TEACHERS,

Welcome

Submitted by ggevalt on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 10:27pm
Welcome

Young Writers Project is excited to be working with you in the coming year. This site has undergone a few changes since last year:

  • Teachers can now grade individual posts and comments.
  • Teachers can leave private 'annotations' on student posts that only the student author can see.
  • Images can be placed inside the text of a post.
  • A new editor, spell checker and a few other changes make the site move more quickly.
  • Coming soon: The ability to directly record a podcast to a post rather than having to go through an audio editor.

Additionally, YWP has expanded its staffing to add four teacher coaches who will work with schools during the year:  Darcie Jensvold Abbene, Nick Brooks, Cindy Faughnan and Kathy Folley, all veteran teachers who've worked extensively with digital classrooms. MJ Bouvier, meanwhile, is YWP's new Web coordinator and will be available for any kind of technical help. Her phone is 802-324-9538.

I will be the WCS Teacher Coach.

STUDENTS: While this is a 'school' project, we hope you will use this space to share your ideas, creativity and work. As with all YWP projects -- and your school -- there is one primary rule: Be civil and respectful. You are also encouraged to participate in youngwritersproject.org or respond to the prompts on that site for potential publication in newspapers around the state or on Vermont Public Radio.

NOTE to TEACHERS: YWP will set up the user accounts for you.  Please send us ASAP an Excel spread sheet listing ALL students in your classes in SEPERATE DOCUMENTS for each section or classroom with three columns: Firstname | Lastname | Grade. Send that spread sheet to ggevalt@youngwritersproject .org AND mjbouvier@youngwritersproject.org THANKS!

Next step will be to arrange with me for a visit to help you with one of your classes or to meet with you in prep time.

As the year progresses, if you want to create a special classroom for a project or a sharing with other students -- you can do so. It's quite easy and we have a video and text walk through on how to do both: In the HELP section, you will see information on how to a) Set up your individual classrooms and the tags system and b) to add students' usernames to your new classroom.

-- Geoffrey Gevalt, YWP Director, 802-324-9537

 

How to -- Get started

Submitted by ggevalt on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 4:18pm

TEACHERS: Again, please send us your class lists -- student name and grade level  -- in ONE xls or cvs file for the whole school. Separate sheets for each class grouping AND include a sheet with all NEW students (three columns: First name | last name | grade

Please contact xx to arrange a time for YWP to come in for training/setup.

For a more detailed menu of help topics, click here. (Takes you to a different site, ywpschools.net)

This Digital Writing Classroom is set up for each student and teacher to have access to private classroom space. To access your space, or classroom, you must log in using the username and password you have been given for this site. None of the student email addresses is functional. Teachers have working email addresses.

YWP Spring Survey

Submitted by ggevalt on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 2:38pm

We ask that each student complete this quick and easy survey at the beginning of 2012. Your name will not be used. Just answer the questions below. There are no wrong answers. Make sure to click "submit" at the bottom when you are finished.

Spring Writing Prompt

Submitted by kfolley on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 5:42pm
Running by Sorin Onisor
Writing Prompt
 
Look at the picture and respond to the prompt that follows. Click on the picture to make it bigger and get a detailed look.  You will have 15 minutes to write.
 
Write a story about what is happening in this picture.
 
Your story should include
  • A clear story line with a beginning, middle, and end;
  • Details to describe the character and what is happening to him; and
  • A problem and its solution.
 
Be as accurate as you can, in the time allotted, in terms of spelling, punctuation, and grammar. (You can write as much as you want; the box below expands as you write and need more room.)

 

 

Syndicate content