Here are some thoughts and experiences I've had on digital writing, slash, learning tools.

YouTube
Every teach in the ACT has a YouTube channel as a part of the Google Classroom suite of app. Always teach students to deal with copyright reasonably.

Story Book with no pictures https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=vZhqPMlBVqA Class or students engage with the story then have to add or plan their own pictures. Planning and use students’ own text is best.

Story Book with pictures and music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br-dK5ZmKsE Students can use their own or your supplied set of pictures and arrange them, add text, add music to create a story book, or short video, or multi-modal text on any topic or theme or with any other structural elements you guide students to use. Planning and working with students’ own images or drawings might be best. Plan the sequence of digital tasks carefully so students know the length of the process and can practice operating autonomously throughout the process.

Film as text and Film as product of writing
Here is an example of a film produced in the ACT of students first writing scripts and then filming. The experimentation with cinema techniques was organic and extremely interesting. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe11Y7jBGYEvDD4ReDWsSa-B5ynVPB46y This one is just a playlist created after shooting short scenes and then arranging the playlist.

Google Docs
Here is an attempt to teach students to write for a specific audience. The instructions are too complex and the students’ online abilities varied. The task required a number of competencies and dispositions were engaged. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PMVc3C-YQP5pBDjXqMwm3trrU7bT0PKeJZ-G_xP-024/edit?usp=sharing. they had to then apply there modeled text in this template https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12GoqNBre18mvlQwYPn8pNmS_-0Gap_xSWn-GuMD4gvs/edit?usp=sharing (Sadly this example is private https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exe1ZqhSD4o)

Wordpress

Then of course there's Wordpress, or is it WordPress? As a professional learning exercise I also publish a little bit to a foreign language blog site called Indonesian Translation Service. Wordpress is interesting and does not seem to be as complex as Scholar. It is of course commercial and consistently, if less brashly than others, trying to extract money from you. I have often thought to myself of whether and how it might be used with students. So many students write so much privately when they are young. A lot of this young writing is lost, and I often wonder if Wordpress might be a way to preserve it.

Voice to Text...

(Or, is this the revolution so called "non-readers" and "non-writers" have been waiting for?)

Lately, I have noticed a significant number of low level Year 6 students using the Voice to Text feature of Google Docs on their ACT Government supplied Chromebooks to "write". As they lean in towards the microphone optimisticly speaking as clearly as possible and struggling with the task of speaking out their still forming thoughts, I have been quietly awe struck by the innovation, the hiden joy, the aura of optimism and liberation in these students as they battle their own limited recognistion of English spelling, the interference from surrounding classroom noise and the struggle for bandwidth and processor speed to solve the eternal problem of not having to "write". Will these limitations be overcome in time to make "writing" a technology of the past like telegraph, telex, fax and typwriters, or will these buds of eleven year old enthusiasm and excitement wither? I can't wait to see.