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I like all of the ideas about editing writing.

 * 1) ======**[|Correction competition]**: You can post a document riddled with mistakes, then have students compete to see who can fix the most errors fastest.======
 * 2) ====**[|Peer editing]**: Ask students to edit each others’ work for spelling, grammar, and facts based on a style guide or rules you’ve defined.====

I also like the group collaboration/communication opportunities.
[|**Track projects**]: With wikis, it’s easy for students to see which tasks have been completed and which ones still need to be fulfilled. ====[|Collect data]: Use central documents to make sure that data collection is uniform and easy to manage.==== =Technology= Heather's Page

wordle
- good for brainstorming __recommendations:__ -type the list in a word document, then copy/paste to the website -multiple words get separated - no space, but can keep as one word and use capital letters or use underscore

Epals ideas
Use the epals penpals from the Social Studies classes to share Language Arts projects (poems, short stories, etc). The peers could provide feedback, ideas, editing, etc. and serve as another source for the students.

In the beginning of the year we talk about strengths and weaknesses of our community. Students then write a persuasive essay about a change they would like to make to the community. Students could use epals to share ideas about what makes a strong community with students from another school. Example: a student might want a community pool, and could talk to someone who has a community pool about how it affects his/her community.

Students do a research paper on social issues. Students could share their thoughts, research, and ideas for helping the issue with a peer from a different country/state. I posted this to the epals global community: //Beginning in January my students work on a social issues research paper and presentation. Students research things like drug use, recycling, child abuse, hunting, etc. Students need to find current information and develop an action plan for helping the problem. I am looking for a classroom that would be interested in commenting on the research and ideas of my students, while also sharing some research and ideas of their own. I am flexible on the total number of participants because I could have the students in groups for the correspondence.//

Turnitin.com
I will continue to use it for turning in papers. I like the set up of the discussion board. I would like to try the peer editing feature. I like that you can see the comments back to each post. Turnitin.com requires students to login, which adds an additional step, but it also makes the discussion more private. I also am interested in using the blog from the school district website. I will need to look into which one would be appropriate for each particular assignment.