Dear Mr. President,

Want to get your scholars involved in national politics? Incorporate the presidential elections into your curriculum.

The National Writing Project and Google have collaborated to create a project to help you.

LETTERS TO THE NEXT PRESIDENT: WRITING OUR FUTURE

A WEB PUBLICATION PROJECT FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS


Teachers of high school scholars are invited to participate in an online publishing project. The scholars will write about issues they would want a new president to address, then they will publish their writing for a national audience. NWP and Google have teamed up to develop Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future, a website where teachers can publish writing through Google Docs, a collaborative web-based composing tool.

Teachers and scholars will need to have a Google account to register. The easiest way to do this is to go to Google and and click on the Gmail link upper left hand corner of the screen. Once the Gmail account is created, each new user automatically has all the Google tools, including Docs and spreadsheets, the tool needed for this project, that complement the Gmail account. By doing it this way, each scholar can set up a school/business account that has been overseen by the teacher for appropriate name creation and is not necessarily a personal account. My Friday, August 8, blog post will discuss Google Tools in greater detail.

Registration: August 4 - September 8.

Go here for more information: http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/nwpsites/writing_our_future.csp

Registration is a two-step process:

1. If you are not already a member of the NWP site, please go register with National Writing Project Interactive (NWPi) here: https://www.nwp.org/cs/public/register (The NWP site is free and open to the public.)
2. After you have logged into NWP, go here to submit your Registration for Letters to the Next President: http://www.nwp.org/cs/public-twocol-jq/create/wof_registration.

Before you can bring your scholars to the conversation, you must first register and get connected.

Once you have registered you will be directed to this page for further information: http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/nwpsites/writing_our_future.csp

You will receive a welcoming email and be added as a member of a discussion forum you access by logging onto the NWP site. Use the discussion forum to share ideas, ask questions, get answers, and collaborate.