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__April 6th:__
Chapter 1 Imagining a Digital Writing Workshop Chapter 2 Fostering Choice and Inquiry Through RSS, Social Bookmarking and Blogging

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__**April 13th:**__ Chapter 3 Conferring through Blogs, Wikis, and Collaborative Word Processors

Chapter 4 Examining Author's Craft Through Multimedia Composition

__**April 20th:**__ Chapter 5 Designing and publishing Digital Writing Various publishing websites: [|www.sites.google.com] [|www.webs.com] [|http://edublogs.org] [|http://wordpress.com] [|http://electronicportfolios.org] [|www.blogger.com]

Chapter 6 Enabling Assessment over time with Digital Writing Tools

__**April 27th:**__ Chapter 7 Creating your Digital Writing Workshop

Appendix 1 Sample Lesson: Exploring Copyright Through Collaborative Wiki Writing

Appendix 2 The Digital Writing Workshop Study Guide

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