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Writing Exchanges and Differences By: Kyle Denomme Prompt Other than our experience in this class with writing exchange, with email, Facebook, instant messaging think of a meaningful exchange you had with someone in the past year. Were you concerned with grammar? Why or why not? Did you draft and then rewrite? Discussion Write a paragraph describing a holiday tradition your family celebrates? Tell us why you do it, how it started, who participates and why is it important to you? From the book and the articles there was a real focus on sharing cultures through writing. Because of the circumstance we will trade these with a classroom that I would have already set a correspondence with. But because we are here we are going to share them with our classmates. Trade papers with the person next to you. While you were writing what kind of things did you pay attention too? Advantages of Writing Exchanges • Cheap • Logistics become much more simple • Authentic Experiences Ways of communication and writing prompts • Bread Net • A website specifically for English Teachers to set up discussion and join collaborative teams that would facilitate writing prompts • Google Docs • Google Docs is a document online that can be collectively edited by anyone you invite. Similar to a Wiki. • Others • Twiter • Facebook • Wikis • E-mail • Thousands of other options really

__Annotated Bibliography__ **Blase, Dean W. "A New Sort of Writing: E-mail in the E-glish Classroom." //NCTE//. Nov. 200. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.** This article discussed how the teacher implemented an email using a program called Bread Loaf to have a correspondence with student from around the U.S. One quote sums the major benefit discovered, "Suddenly, students were being forced to confront the realities of stereotyping, and it dawned on them that because this was e-mail, they had complete control over how they represented themselves(Blase 48)." **Bower Sipe, Rebecca. "Virtually Being There: Creating Authentic Experiences Through Interactive Exchanges." //NCTE//. Nov. 2000. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.** This article was a step by step article of the major aspects of setting up a writing exchange. It talks about how she set it up with the other teacher. The ground roles the set and the way they conducted a facilitated the discussions. Good article for understanding the frame work of this type of tool and how to implement it into the classroom. **Hipple, Theodore W., Robert G. Wright, Jane H. Yardbrough, and Bruce Bartholomew. "Forty Plus Writing Activities." //NCTE//. Mar. 1983. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.** This article was just really helpful in terms of writing ideas and prompts. Some of these writing activities could totally implemented into a writing exchange. Just felt it was a really good resource for brainstorming for lessons. **Holvig, Kenneth C. "Jamming the Phone Lines: Pencils, Notebooks, and Modems." //NCTE//. Dec. 1989. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.** Another article using the Bread Loaf software to create an arena for correspondence. Each week the students were given a writing prompt or topic to send to their writing partner. The exchange brought accountability to the students. The article touched on areas to focus on in terms of creating norms and guidelines. **Potash, Betsy, and Janelle Oxford. "What Kinds of Collaboration Do You Engage in for the Benefit of Your Students?" //NCTE//. 2010. Web. 9 Dec. 2010.** Article Touched on using an international writing exchange using everything from cell phones, to email to communicate and discuss culture, home, identity. The teacher references the cheap exchange over the internet. The other is an experience with college and high school teachers. This gave the students an idea of what it meant to write to professional audience. Felt the experience opened the door for discussing audience and intent. 