Collaborative Writing Tools

By: Hamdi Nsirhamdins@gmail.com

Digital English Tunisia, 2015Golden Tulip hotel, Sfax

Agenda

• Defining Concepts.• Benefits of collaborative digital

writing.• Explore/compare some of the tools

and resources.• Practice and sharing of

ideas/experiences.

Definition Time• What is collaborative digital writing?

A quick Survey:• How many of you are familiar with the

concept?• Have you ever used a CW tool for

educational purposes?

Collaborative writing refers to:

Projects where written works are created by multiple people together (collaboratively) rather than individually. Some projects are overseen by an editor or editorial team, but many grow without any oversight. Collaborative writing is also an approach for teaching novice authors to write.

Benefits of Collaboration Tools

Collaborative Writing Tools

Which Tool? When? Where?

"Blooms Taxonomy 2.0" (courtesy of Brave New World professional blog)

Abbreviated from “Weblog“, it is used to describe different type of Websites and Portals which share information on specific topics or wider categories. It usually includes Features like Blog Posts, Videos, Comments, Links to other websites, Widgets, etc. (Blogginggame.com)

Blogging Tools

Picture source: http://www.techlila.com/choosing-perfect-free-blog-provider/

Wikis

Storybird!

Time for Pratice

Microsoft OneNote: http://1drv.ms/1IyPnfR

Microsoft Docs: http://1drv.ms/1EFVFmq

Google Docs: https://goo.gl/vuHxjz

Padlet: http://goo.gl/7ubrT3

For further information:

Troy Hick’s book The Digital Writing Workshop (published by Heinemann 2009) and his website www.hickstro.org and http://digitalwritingworkshop.wikispaces.com/homeGreat Information on Pbworks.com: http://digitalwritingresources.pbworks.com/w/page/24071093/Collaborative%20Writing

For further information:

Collaborative writing with Wikis: http://hrd.apec.org/index.php/Collaborative_Writing_With_WikisKeep learning with Collaborative Writing Tools: http://learning.instructure.com/2014/02/tools-for-collaborative-writing/

Thank You!