Welcome to the Digital Writing wiki

This wiki is designed to support the book, Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and other Digital Tools, by Richard Beach, Chris Anson, Lee-Ann Breuch, and Thom Swiss, published in December by Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc.  Click to purchase the book online from Christopher Gordon ($29.65 with the 10% discount for online orders and shipping within 24 hours).  For toll-free phone orders: 1-800-934-8322.

Within each chapter you will find references to topics on this wiki signaled by @ = Topic. To access these topics, click on the chapter topic on the sidebar and you will find these topics listed.

As readers of this book, we hope that you will add your own material related to the topics in this wikibook: links, references, files, descriptions of teaching activities, or student work. To add material, click on edit, enter the password: digwriting, and insert text or links.

For a free JAAL article and a podcast produced by Teachers Teaching Teachers about the use of online role-play described in this book.

For further information about this site, contact Richard Beach, University of Minnesota, at rbeach@umn.edu