"Write About"

This week I’m sticking with following Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) on Twitter. I find everything she tweets about relevant to teaching and also interesting. She tweeted an article about “Write About” and how this may be the education site of the year. I decided to take a look at it.

"Write About" is a new site co-founded by educator John Spencer and his co-founder is Brad Wilson. This site provides many images with writing prompts and students are able to write their response and do an audio recording of it. Teachers can also even create virtual classrooms and provide individual written feedback to student writing. Their student creations can be shared publicly or just with their classmates. Teachers have another option too where they can change prompts or upload their own photos.

“Write About” is a website for teachers to be able to sign up and participate in the community for free. Up to 4o free student accounts can be created with up to 3 posts each. This site is an excellent site for English Language Learners because it combines visual imagery, writing, speaking and listening.

I really enjoyed looking into this website because it’s just another way that technology can be used in the classroom. It’s a great tool, especially for younger kids to use and with schools now using iPads in classrooms, it can be used on that as an activity. This is an amazing resource to intrigue students as writers.

Here is a link for a video about “Write About.”