THIS IS A NEW SITE. YOUR OLD SITE HAS BEEN ARCHIVED CAN BE ACCESSED (nothing can be written on it) at lums.ywpschools.net

Young Writers Project is excited to be working with you in the coming year. This site has undergone a few changes since last year:

• Teachers can now grade individual posts and comments.
• Teachers can leave private 'annotations' on student posts that only the student author can see.
• Images can be placed inside the text of a post.
• A new editor, spell checker and a few other changes make the site move more quickly.
• Coming soon: The ability to directly record a podcast to a post rather than having to go through an audio editor.

Additionally, YWP has expanded its staffing to add four teacher coaches who will work with schools during the year:  Darcie Jensvold Abbene, Nick Brooks, Cindy Faughnan and Kathy Folley, all veteran teachers who've worked extensively with digital classrooms. MJ Bouvier, meanwhile, is YWP's new Web coordinator and will be available for any kind of technical help. Her phone is 802-324-9538.

Darcie Jensvold Abbene is your school's Teacher Coach. Get with her soon to arrange time for her to come in and work with you.

STUDENTS: While this is a 'school' project, we hope you will use this space to share your ideas, creativity and work. As with all YWP projects -- and your school -- there is one primary rule: Be civil and respectful. You are also encouraged to participate in youngwritersproject.org or respond to the prompts on that site for potential publication in newspapers around the state or on Vermont Public Radio.

NOTE to TEACHERS:  You and your students have been set up on this site. You should have received an email with your username and password. We will be meeting with you on Monday to provide details.

You will be setting up your own digital classrooms and adding students to each appropriate space. This is very easy to do and is probably easier than trying to send us your class lists in the proper form. In the HELP section, you will see information on how to a) Set up your individual classrooms and b) to add student members to the classroom. Attached below is the student username list to help. Teacher usernames are included.

Darcie and I are available if you get stuck.

-- Geoffrey Gevalt, YWP Director, 802-324-9537

TEACHERS: You will be setting up your own digital classrooms and adding students to each appropriate space. This is very easy to do and is probably easier than trying to send us your class lists in the proper form. In the HELP section, you will see information on how to a) Set up your individual classrooms and b) to add student members to the classroom.

For a more detailed menu of help topics, click here. (Takes you to a different site, ywpschools.net)

This Digital Writing Classroom is set up for each student and teacher to have access to private classroom space. To access your space, or classroom, you must log in using the username and password you have been given for this site. None of the student email addresses is functional. Teachers have working email addresses.