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
My friend and I have
tried a collaborative writing using Google Drive and it is recorded by a screen
recorder tool namely Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder. Here is the video, you can watch it on Youtube
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