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= **Action Research: Middle School Teacher Leadership Project** =

//The questions://

 * How can digital reading and writing workshop change students' perceptions of themselves as readers and writers?
 * How can digital reading and writing workshop improve students' analysis of texts?

//The problem://
In the fall of 2010 we formed the Digital Writing Workshop along with another teacher who is pursuing her NETS-T certification and a technology integration specialist. We set out to explore ways to infuse technology into our language arts classes in order to engage and enhance students' writing and reading skills. Would their writing and reading skills improve with increased use of technology? Would reluctant writers and readers become more engaged if more technology was used? These were some of the questions that we wanted to explore.

//The plan://

 * Use blogs, wikis, discussion boards and other forms of digital writing to increase the amount of writing opportunities students have and to widen the audience for students' writing.
 * Use blogs, wikis, discussion boards and other forms of digital writing to deepen students' analysis of texts including increasing the use of evidence to defend positions, making inferences and drawing conclusions.
 * Use blogs, wikis, discussion boards, and other forms of digital writing to to foster cordial conversations and digital discourse among students.