• Writing with the World Wide Web

Demonstrates how Hotlists, Treasure Hunts, and WebQuests on the Internet can be used to enhance writing skills.

Amy Hudson—Westside Intermediate School

• Scrapbook Research Project

Presents a research project in which students research a famous person and then incorporate the information they find into a variety of writing experiences, including resumes, newspaper articles, poetry, journal entries, and persuasive letters.

Christi Longenecker—Chestertown Middle School

• Give Me the Scoop: Using Layered Writing to Delve into a Moral Dilemma and Debate It

Provides strategies for encouraging students to move from opinion to argument by using the writing process to examine a moral issue.

Eileen Emerson, Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic School

• Superheroes and Computers: A Dynamic Duo in Dealing with Disciplined Writers

Incorporates technology and choice to motivate students to write a mini-bio about superheroes they have created.

Jenny Bernardi, Salisbury Middle School

• Appetite for Adventure: A Menu Approach for Motivating Students to Be Successful in Writing

Provides a menu framework to motivate students to write an adventure story.

Tom Ferkler, Lockerman Middle School

• Trash Talk: Writing Persuasive Letters to Change the World

Integrates reading and writing by asking students to inform themselves about an environmental issue and write persuasive letters encouraging change.

Catherine Fowlkes, Westside Intermediate School

• Catch the Buzz on Writing

Suggests ways to incorporate creative writing and technology in the science classroom;  focuses on using research on bees to create both haiku and public service announcements.

Bea Lowe, The Salisbury School

• Summarizing with Technology

Offers a method for increasing student motivation for writing by using PowerPoint to present a summary of research findings.

Angie Temple, St. Michaels Middle/High School