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.