Technology and the Teaching of Writing Skills: Collaborative Online Writing Activities
"Technology-assited writing activities has been part of todays communication activities. Therefore, exploring how such activities can be adopted for language teaching is worth doing. In this session you will explore some potentials of technology for teaching writing as well as experience you self how online writing activities can be used for teaching writing."
Teaching Writing
Writing is one of the skills that language learners need to learn besides the other three skills. But the questions for teachers that often comes up is how to teach writing skills effectively?
In order to know the answers to the above questions the following article give us a walk-through of what is the process of writing development, what people usually write for, what might be the good strategies for teaching writing, is there relationship between writing skills and other language skills? etc
Talking about teachings strategies, the following web-based seminar (WEBINAR) hosted by British council, is a good source for learning teaching writing strategies, that can enrich our knowledge on teaching strategies.
Having watched the webinar, it is time for you to complete the very short quiz (4 questions) in the quiz/test section or just click this link!
Technology and the Teaching of Writing
Now in this ICT era how can technology or ICT helps in teaching and learning writing? Do the techniques in teaching conventional writing needs modifying? And what tools that might be available out there that can be used to better teach writing?
The following article shows some ideas about how to use technology for teaching writing that is worth exploring and trying.
- Teaching writing using technology
- Routledge- 10 ways to use technology to teach writing
- EdTech- 10 ways to use technology to teach writing
Having read the article above you probably want to know how a technology-assisted collaborative writing can be done by using free and popular available tools like Google drive. You will see it in action in the following video tutorial on YouTube :
Similar to Google drive you may want to try www.ZOHO.com
In you groups ( see the grouping page ), do a collaborative writing using Google drive. You will have to produce a two-paragraph composition about the website that you visit often. You should explain what website that you visit often, why, and how do you visit them, whether by using your PC or mobile devices.
While working on the composition, I want you to take the screenshot where all of you are working online and doing the chat in Google drive. Then, send the screenshot to the assignment folder together with your completed paragraph.
In order to learn how to take screen shot you can click here. if you wish you can also send me the screen recording of you collaboration process. To learn how to make a screen recording, you can click here (screen recording).
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