Digital Writing and Teaching Tools

Digital writing can take on a number of forms depending on what you hope to accomplish with each assignment. It could be as simple as message board posts and comments through the Blackboard course site and Google Docs, or as complicated as course blogs or twitter assignments. Here are some tech tools you may explore: 

• Google Docs
• Zoho Writer
• Piratepad
• Penflip
• Typewrite
• MixedInk
• Draft
• Murally
• MindMeister
• GroupZap

Teaching Strategies in a Digital Classroom

• Reading Electronic Texts 2011 (ppt): York Writing Fellows made this PowerPoint as part of our CETL (Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning) presentation on “Teaching Strategies for Reading Electronic Texts” (uploaded by Ashley Williard).

Digital WAC Website

City Tech OpenLab WAC: an open-source digital platform where students, faculty, and staff can meet to learn, work, and share their ideas. Its goals are to support writing in and across disciplines at City Tech.

WAC Videos

WAC Beneath my Wings

WI Emergency

What it Means to Be a Writing Fellow?

Draft my Paper

Plagiarism: Pernicious Plague or Preventable Pest? 

Bronx Community College WAC Faculty Video