Web Log 7

The following is the webliography for the 2.0 applications that are linked to my class website:

PowerSchool
Powerschool is the online gradebook that is used by all teachers at Saint Joseph Academy. Students are able to view their grades & any comments that the teacher posts pertaining to their progress. This is an excellent way for students to see if they are missing assignments and to see trends in their grades. For example, maybe they will see that if they have several low quiz scores, they need to improve their study skills.

SJA email
The best way to contact me is through the school's email system. Also, through this email account, students may access the GMail website that I have created for the Creative Writing class on which I have posted the class's assignments. This is a website that I update daily and add helpful attachments to frequently.

Turnitin.com
For this class, students must submit their short story, one-act play, and personal essay to this application. In addition to checking the document for plagiarism, this website allows me to provide electronic feedback on a student's work. It also has a peer review function that allows students to give feedback on each others' writing.

Quizlet.com
This application is particularly helpful when students are learning poetry, drama, and short story technical terms. When discussing literature and writing, we need to have a common vocabulary, and this website helps students to reach a mastery of this vocabulary.

Fanfiction.net
This online community is for students who are interested in writing a fictional account of a movie, book, or video game that explores themes and ideas that will not or cannot be explored via the originating medium (definition paraphrased from dictionary.com). While I have a wealth of writing prompts to give students ideas for what to write about, in many cases it is desirable to have a student write about something that is of particular interest to her, such as Twilight, Harry Potter, or an anime graphic novel.

Allpoetry.com
This application allows for students to publish their poetry online; it certainly is exciting & rewarding for students to see their writing published. Also, students can receive feedback from other writers on their writing. An important part of the Creative Writing class is for students to feel comfortable giving & receiving constructive feedback, and this website gives students that opportunity.

Wiggio.com
For several class writing assignments, students are required to collaborate with a partner or a small group. This application would be helpful because it allows for students to communicate via group email, text, and voice messages, host web meetings, conference calls, and chatrooms, keep a shared calendar, store and edit files in one common folder, and keep track of the groups tasks and resources (paraphrased from the wiggio.com website).

Openzine.com
I used this application for my "Project Tomorrow" assessment, and I loved it! Students could use this application for any number of things: creating a fictional newspaper during a historical time period or based on the events of a novel or play, writing in an online environment as opposed to in their journals, or using this application as a way to present the results of their research. The website is particularly appealing because it incorporates text, pictures, and video.

Bookrix.com
Like the Allpoetry.com site, students can publish their writing and build literary networks. However, students can publish more than just poetry on this site; they can also publish essays, short stories, novels, science fiction, fantasy, and children's books. Likewise, they can receive feedback on these.

Online-literature.com
This website is a forum website where students can be part of literary dialogue. This is largely done through blogging and posting comments on others' blogs. They can also get quick feedback on works that they are in the process of writing. Likewise, students can take literary "quizzes" to test their scholarly prowess.

Cogdogroo.wikispaces.com & Go2web20.net
These sites allow for students to find an application that they like best as a means of telling a story in a multimedia environment.