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=Visual Story Resources= http://50ways.wikispaces.com/StoryTools = = =‍Digital Story Proposal= Write a 4-5 sentence proposal for your digital story. Include a short description of the topic, images you will need, and which software program you will use. Also explain why you think the software you chose will work well for your particular topic. Due on Thursday.

__Possible Project Ideas__ You can do a personal narrative, short story, poem, or any other genre of creative writing that you choose. I'd prefer your writing piece to be original, but you may use one of the pieces that you wrote earlier this semester =Cool Videos= = = [] = = [] = =
 * poem with images
 * video story
 * comic strip
 * Prezi visual essay
 * documentary
 * podcast

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=Places to Get Published= = = [] = = = = = Peer Feedback Assignment =

Post four or more pieces that you've written about on the top of your personal wiki page. To do this, click on "File," select the file you want from your documents, and double-click.

You are responsible for giving feedback to four of your peers' pieces. You should read the pieces of the two students whose names are beneath yours on the list of student names on the right. So Akhila would be assigned to Alexa and Bonnie. Grace would be assigned to Halli and Jessica, etc. You may choose the two other students that you would like to provide feedback to.

You should provide 100+ words of feedback to two different pieces for each student. Type the feedback directly into the Wiki right below the writer's Word document, using a different color font. Write the feedback like a letter starting with "Dear ___" and ending with "Sincerely__ __" Please study the handout on peer critique posted below and follow its recommendations. You will recieve a grade for your feedback.

Six-Word Memoirs
Assignment: Post four six-word memoirs to your page. At least two of them should be artistically combined with an image that reflects, contrasts, illuminates, complicates the words of the memoir.

Qualities for which to Aspire:

 * === sensory description ===
 * === attention to rhythm, rhyme, repetition of sound ===
 * === depicts an essential or significant aspect of identity ===
 * === authentic, personal, real voice ===
 * === clever, witty, or funny use of language ===
 * === original rather than trite or cliche ===

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About Wikis
For those of you who think you've never used a Wiki before, think again. If you've ever looked up anything on Wikipedia (and don't try to tell me you haven't), you've used a wiki. A wiki is essentially a shared online space where people can collaborate to create knowledge. A wiki is an easy to use website that all of us can work on together. For a quick primer on wikis called "Wikis in Plain English" produced by //Common Craft,// please see:

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Wikis can be used for all sorts of purposes in education (collaborative research, giving and receiving feedback, creating shared documents), we will use our wiki for three main purposes:

1. Sharing resources about writing 2. Completing homework exercises 3. Sharing completed work in online portfolio.

Although wikis lend themselves lend themselves to peer review, we will use the more secure environment of Google Docs for this purpose.

This particular wiki is a semi-private space. Only people that have been invited to our classroom community can post content or make edits. However, anyone with a wikispaces account can view the content posted on this site, if they are so inclined. Other students and teachers may be browsing the net, happen across ours, and poke around for a while. Since all work posted here becomes part of the public domain, you will not be required to post your creative work here.

=‍Guidelines for Using Our Wiki:= 1. Never post personal information (last name, age, geographical identifiers, etc) 2. In the portfolio session of the site, only edit your own page. 3. When viewing others' completed works in the Portfolio section, use the comment feature to provide helpful, honest, respectful, and kind feedback. 4. When contributing to the Resources page, publish accurate, clear, high quality work that will benefit your peers.

Remember that your instructor is the administrator of this site; he can monitor all contributions and edits. Disrespectful or inappropriate content will be deleted and violators rights to access site will be revoked.

=‍Wiki Resources=

I have posted some links to background information about wikis and education, and also how to navigate Wikispaces, the site that we will be using:

http://rachelboyd.wikispaces.com/wiki+workshop

Since this is a work in progress, I look forward to exploring the capabilities and limits of this collaborative venture with you. Let's take risks together, be kind to each other, and spur each other onto greatness. If you would like to experiment with the look and feel of the site, feel free to improve it.

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‍Places to Get Published
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