Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Students Writing for an Authentic Audience: Their Future Selves

When I was in 8th grade, I wrote a letter to be opened when I became a senior. After reading the letter
senior year, I wish I had written myself every year!

I always wanted to have students write to themselves and then get it over the summer when they were getting ready to enter high school but knew it would be too much for me to keep up with. However,  technology makes it easy for students and teachers to write their future selves.

Students can compose letters to themselves...
...at the beginning of the year of their goals to be delivered mid-year so they can evaluate how well they have moved toward accomplishing the goals.
...to be delivered a year from then as a writing sample so they can then see how much they have matured as people and grown as writers
...for the far future 6th to 8th grade or 9th to 12th as time capsule


Office:

Delay the delivery of a message
  1. In the message, click Options.
  2. In the More Options group, click Delay Delivery.
    Delay Delivery command on the ribbon
  3. Under Delivery options, select the Do not deliver before check box, and then click the delivery date and time that you want.
After you click Send, the message remains in the Outbox folder until the delivery time.

Gmail:

You'll have to use an add-in like http://www.boomeranggmail.com/

Other:

If you would rather use a Web 2.0 tool, I've listed several below. However, do your due diligence, check terms of service and make sure students are not posting any sensitive information. Teach students how to use initials instead of names and not include identifiers like age, location, or anything that is personal or private. This is a great opportunity to reinforce digital citizenship and cyber safety.


www.futureme.org
411: 13+, specific day option, option to make letters public, some public letters can be inappropriate.

http://lettertomyfutureself.net
411: No terms of service disclosed. letter delivery options have preset increments of time


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