Welcome!
Welcome to Barnet Elementary School's Digital Writing Classroom brought to you by the Young Writers Project, a Vermont nonprofit. This site is intended for use by teachers and students with access to the private classrooms on this site. This page is for public viewing and is where teachers can showcase students' best work for parents and community members to read. Authentic audience is a powerful tool.
In the private classrooms, students post their homework for their classmates to read; exchange civil and constructive feedback; and use multimedia. All work here is created with one rule in mind: Be civil, be respectful.
Students may submit best work to youngwritersproject.org for potential publication.
How to -- Get started
Submitted by ggevalt on Sun, 04/26/2009 - 11:51For a more detailed menu of help topics, click here. (Takes you to a different site, ywpschools.net)
This Digital Writing Classroom is set up for each student and teacher to have access to private classroom space. To access your space, or classroom, you must log in using the username and password you have been given for this site. None of the student email addresses is functional. Teachers have working email addresses.
Log in. Student users have been given usernames of their FirstnameL(ast intial). So Geoffrey Gevalt, director of YWP, would be GeoffreyG (no space and make sure you capitalize the First letter of the first name and the Last intial). Your teacher has your passwords.
If you wish to change your password click "My account" and "Edit." Change the password to something you can remember; we suggest you use the same password you use to log into your school network. Please do not put any personal information in your profile.
Barnet in Boston
Close your eyes for a moment and silently relive your experience in Boston. Do you remember Thursday; Friday and Saturday? I will give you two minutes to do this.
When the time is up, I will invite you to respond to this assignment - include a title and then begin SSW for 7 minutes, sharing your favorite moments/memories and stories using complete sentences and correct GUM and spelling as much as possible. Your feedback is always so instrumental in forming next year's experiences so please share your comments liberally. I thank you in advance for your thoughtfulness with this assignment.
After the SSW is up and before we start chatting, I invite you to respond to the three other posts using at least two complete sentences in each.
A Photo Story
Submitted by ggevalt on Mon, 05/03/2010 - 14:59It look's like you don't have Adobe Flash Player installed. Get it now.
Photo by Phyllis Graber Jensen
This is my uncle Frank, Frank Glazer. He is 95 years old. He still performs as a concert pianist. He still teaches at Bates College. This year's project was to perform each of Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas in the order they were composed. He started in September and finished April 9. In the background is Frank's 1968 recording of Erik Satie's work; the New York Times called it the Classical Album of the Year. Frank has played with symphony orchestras all over the world. He premiered two of Aaron Copland's pieces. He began his professional career at aged 13 in a vaudeville show. "Music," Frank says, "keeps me alive." -- Geoffrey Gevalt, YWP Director
I see that Barnet School is going to be doing photo stories... This is an example of what the kids can do on this site with a picture and a story about an elder -- a community member or a relative.
NOTES: So you will note that I strayed from the text, but that's OK.
What this is is a very simple form of storytelling. Get a picture of a relative or an elder you know well. Scan it into digital form, if it's not already a digital photo. Write a short -- very short -- bit of text that will tell us something about the person. Record your narration. Upload the mp3 audio narration to a "create a blog entry" form; use Image Assit to upload the photo to the blog's body; add text and save.
Voila. You've made a digital story.
The power, of course, comes from three directions -- the words, the photo and the sound. And if you have a little sound that evokes the person, like I did, all the better. Hope you try this idea out.
geoff gevalt
