According to Brooks-Young, states that teen-age students who blog generally tend to be “more-prolific” writers than teen-age students who do not blog; however, at the same time, these students do not view blog writing as formal or real writing. My school is in the process of creating a Creative Writing curriculum and the program will be utilizing numerous web 2.0 tools. The Creative Writing program, with the dismay of journalism students, will be replacing the schools Journalism Curriculum. After numerous discussions, I convinced the educators responsible for the new creative writing program that Journalism students and Creative Writing students can live as one. I introduced the web site for Web 2.0 Cool Tools for Schools website. This website provides links to many cool tools for students to create journalist writing assignments, magazine assignments, books, etc. Students can even create books and have them printed..
Our teachers are also working on a summer reading program where all the participants will be writing on individual Facebook pages. These pages will be linked to a Summer Reading profile. Each student will be responsible for completing a characters study of his or her favorite character from the summer reading challenge. The page will contain a picture or a short video describing the character with written details.
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