In 2009, the Senate passed a resolution recognizing October 20 as the National Day on Writing.

Every year, thousands of educators, students, and writers celebrate by tweeting reasons why they write using the hashtag #WhyIWrite. Celebrations and activities are planned in classrooms across the nation uniting writers, recognizing the benefits of writing, and voicing the importance of writing!

Getting Students Involved

In the classroom, my former students shared their voices on Twitter. Beautiful and profound statements were succinctly tweeted followed by a curation of their favorite tweets throughout the day. As a class, my students gathered their favorite tweets from the #WhyIWrite feed and created multimodal projects sharing the many voices. For example, some  used Storify to collect and share their favorite tweets. Other tools my students used to collect, create and share were:  iMovie, YouTube, Pinterest, blogs, and Word Cloud generators.

This year I challenged educators to share #WhyIWrite.

More Information

• Information and resources found at  NCTE, The New York Times Learning Network, and  The Teaching Channel
•  “Get Involved” page for ideas.
• “Tips” and “Resources” pages.

Thank You and Be Sure to Follow

• Jarod Bormann
• Jon Harper
• Fran McVeigh
• Dennis Schug
• Juli B
• Jeff Zoul
• Jimmy Casas
• Beth Holland
• Cornelius Minor
• Dean Shareski
• Ross Cooper
• Katie Diebold
• Bob Dillon
• Erin Olson
• Don Goble
• Rafranz Davis
• Steven Anderson
• Beth Still
• Tony Sinanis 
• Manuel Herrera 
• Kim Nelson
• Scott McLeod 
• Matt Miller
• Neil Gupta
• Travis Zinnel
• Kissy Venosdale
• John Spencer
• Kasey Bell
• Jacques du Toit
• Chrissy Romano
• Shanna Peeples
• Rusul Alrubail
• Melissa Nixon

• Kayla Marsh

• Doug Robertson

If you have a #WhyIWrite message to share, please send it to me and I will add it!