Assignment 9.1:
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
Assignment 9.2:
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).
Submitting
your assignment (CHOOSE ONE):
To submit your assignment you can use the
submit function on the right column of this screen. Again...Just send me your
completed paragraph together with your screen shot or send me the completed paragraph and your
screen recording ( if you want to send me your screen recording, just send me
your URL after you published it in YouTube). Remember! if you publish in
YouTube, it will take sometimes until your video can be viewed online by
others.
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