Story as Product

For some reason ‘Essays’ still hold a position of honour as crowning achievements of literacy. Essays as a symbol of rigor, ignor that our world is about stories, not essays. Essays are an artifact of only having print based text as a method for academics to share information over long distances.

We now have a multitude of other ways to share stories in addition to live worldwide, simultaneous interaction including:

Visual Focus

Webbing
Image Viewing
Image Capture
Image Edit / Creation
Image Organizing
Photography
Book Making
Graphic Novel
Sketching

Linear Text Based

Note-taking / Annotating
Word Processing
Collaborative Documents
Book Making
Peer Editing
Text Publishing (Blogs, Wikis)

(Check out – https://iamliterate.wikispaces.com/collaboration for more details)

Audio Based

Podcasting / Voice Recording
Music
Video Recording with no video

There are additional uses as Adaptive Tools for students with additional needs.

To see a chart providing example writing activities cross platform

See also Presentation – Death of the Traditional Essay