The National Writing Project and Google Team Up To Give High School Students a Voice - TTT120 - 09.03.08
Posted by Paul Allison on 7th September 2008
The National Writing Project and Google Team Up To Give High School Students a Voice - TTT120 - 09.03.08 [59:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download On this podcast we talk with four guesrts about Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future, an exciting 
collaborative project sponsored by the National Writing Project and Google:
- Andrew Chang, Product Marketing Manager at Google
- Gail Desler, Tech Liaison for the Area 3 Writing Project in Northern California
- Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, co-director of the National Writing Project
- Paul Oh, the coordinator of the technology liaison program for the National Writing Project
Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future is open to U.S. teachers and mentors working with students ages 13–18. The project requires that the teacher have a parent/guardian permission (PDF) on file for each student prior to publishing their work on the Web and requires that students and teachers have Internet connectivity and use or create a free Google account.
Google accounts allow teachers and students to use Google Docs to compose, collaborate, edit, and share writing through Internet-accessible documents. The Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future website provides a secure way for teachers to publish students’ publication-ready writing to a high-profile website intended to feature strong, well-reasoned, and persuasive writing by young people.
Interested teachers should read How to Participate and then register [at http://nwp.org] by September 12. Publishing of student letters and essays occurs through October 30, 2008. Please note, in order to register for this project, you must first have an account on NWPi,
Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future
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