Digital Writing Toolkit
The engaged and innovative use of technology can enhance the learning experience both inside and outside of the classroom. Below are some suggestions and resources for incorporating instructional technology into your course.
- General Suggestions for the Effective Use of Instructional Technology: Avoid grief with these tips for effective use of technology in your course.
- Blogging: Create an online course journal to organize and make available to students important course materials and web resources, and to provide a forum for student writing and group discussion.
- Wikis: Develop a course webpage that allows for synchronous use (users may contribute simultaneously, at once, from different sites), which may be helpful for collaborative group writing, ongoing development and revision of a group project, and group discussion.
- Web Apps: Explore these online tools to facilitate and promote student writing, identify Web content resources, and organize and make available course materials.
- Resources and Examples: Examine how students and instructors employ Web apps such as wikis and blogs in different courses and academic learning communities.