I found a goofy activity for digital writing. It doesn't teach students a new style of writing, it just allows them to do a very traditional type of writing online. It's a version of Mad Libs called "Wacky Web Tales."
My students love it. They choose from about 50 possible stories, provide the required words, read what the computer comes up, and then share with friends. Students have called others over to their computers and cut and pasted onto their blogs to share.
Some students are even redoing ones they've done once with more appropriate or funnier word choices.
That is great that students are doing the dreaded editing step with this website. They are having fun working on it too. Great!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if you could push this even further with having students do a sort of contest to see who could come up with the funniest story as voted by the students. That way you could incorporate a survey that you create through the use of Google. I'm not really sure how it works but one of our teachers built a survey using something in Google and it even tallied the information for him.
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