Bitstrips and Storybird: Writing Development in a Blended Literacy Camp

This article describes the integration of Web 2.0 technologies in writing instruction with upcoming fifth- and sixth-grade students during a Summer Digital Literacy Camp, and shares how the students and the author learned alongside each other as they "played" with digital literacy to write persuasive comic strips and digital storybooks using the websites Bitstrips and Storybird. Through these literacy experiences, students used new literacies practices that emphasized multimodalities as they also situated social practices and the students’ own identities and lived experiences to learn key components of persuasive and narrative writing.