BP8_Protagonize

My week 3 web 2.0 tool is called Protagonize.  I have a a group of boys that hate to write.  Fiction stories, non-fictions stories, How-to, Narratives, you name it if it involves writing they do not want to do it. Part of it is that they don't like the process of writing on paper (but will type all day on their mobile phone) and another part of it is that they never know where to start.  The first couple of step of the writing process is always difficult.  With this in mind I looked on Go2web20 website specifically looking for writing tools and came across Protagonize.  

Protagonize is a tool that helps anyone create stories and work online with a collaborative writing community.  This tool could be very useful in helping struggling writers and just to create a collaborative community of writers within the classroom.  The way it works it you start a story and people on the site add chapters to your story.  people can become fans of your writing to follow what you write and can decide to add to your story or not.  It would be nice to have the students in my program to make profiles and become fans of each other.  They could then write chapters to other people's stories.  This could be very useful in generating ideas and can be used as a brainstorming tool to create a published story for a writing assignment as well.  Also for the student who has trouble getting things on paper starting their writing process on the computer might be helpful to them.  This is a great place to get mentor-texts as well!

They have a group option but you have to get special permission to create a group.  I hope to look into that because that would make it easier to monitor what the students are posting.