Chapter 1

Chapter 1 of Troy Hicks’s The Digital Writing Workshop was very lack luster in my opinion, but for an introduction it did a good job of introducing some of the ideas that a writing workshop includes. The beggening includes a list of the important aspects of a writing workshop and has the reader ask themselves questions based on a writing workshop and including technology with it. Hicks then in this chapter talks about what the rest of the book will be about and how it will merge the idea of a writing workshop with technology. Besides just basic information on what a writing workshop includes and some basics on writing using technologies nothing else is really said, however one thing that I really liked what that at the end of this introductory chapter Hicks recommended that the reader talk to a colleague and have a discussion about some of the things talked about in his book and invites the reader to join his social network on the book. This I thought was such a great idea. A place where other readers of the book can discuss the details of the digital writing workshop and even the inclusion of the author himself. All books should have such an easy way for people to collaborate ideas for us to all become better teachers.

-Jimmy