How can your digital text create a dialogue with your reader? What modes can you use to respond to the user?
Start the Conversation
Link it Up
Break it Up
Encourage readers to participate in the conversation with…
- Prompting questions and comment boxes on class blogs and ePortfolios.
- Have readers call in and leave a voicemail in response to a podcast.
- Create social media accounts to accompany a research project that posts content readers can comment, like, and re-post.
- Use Poll Everywhere to begin a text with a question.
- Embed a live Google Doc on an ePortfolio or blog that asks readers to contribute their own thoughts.
Use links creatively to give the reader their choice of what to read next.
- Ask the reader to move through your online text through a series of links.
- Link to other platforms and sites to give your reader the opportunity to read more about what they want.
- Use Google Slides or Keynote to create links to different pages within one document to create a text that reacts to the reader.
Break up content to ask readers to make decisions about what they want to read next.
- Connect portions of content with links across a website or even multiple platforms.
- Break up a piece across multiple social media posts, social media platforms, and blog site.
ePortfolio and Blog Sites
WordPress.com
Wix.com
Weebly.com
Tumblr.com
Google Slides/Keynote
Google Slides and Keynote both allow you to easily create links to different pages within a single document opening up ways to create more dynamic tables of contents, image descriptions, and document organization.
Pop a Question
Poll Everywhere, Kahoot!, and Instagram stories all allow the composer to create a question for the reader to submit either multiple choice or short answers to.
Map It Out
ZeeMaps and MapHub allow users to create interactive maps that have pinpoints with text, images, or videos.