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ICT, Writing & the Creative Connections
Karen Yager Knox Grammar School Sydney Australia yagerk@knox.nsw.edu.au
ConsiderationsGlobal skills required for the 21st century workforce:Critical thinking Problem solving Innovation CollaborationCreativityConnectivism through technology
Global citizens
ConsiderationsQuality learning enables
students to:
Engage
Examine and explore
Enrich and extend
Create and construct
Apply
Communicate and share
Reflect and evaluate
Global citizens
Why ICT & Writing?
Connections: Learning to ‘story’
Craft: Focus on the writing process and representation
Confidence: spelling and handwriting
Vocabulary: synonyms, definitions
Refinement: Editing, spell check, peer marking, publishing
Creativity: Images, sound, video clips, Web 20 tools…
The Research “Technology can become an obstacle to
learning, especially when a student is first exposed to a new and/or novel technology. The student may become too focused on the technology and neglect the need for developing creative ideas” (Mohler).
“Technology is best seen as another tool in the repertoire available to learners and teachers for expression and communication” (Andrews et al., 2006)
http://cunningham.acer.edu.au/dbtw-wpd/textbase/NSWIT/NSW_Digest_1_09.html#Availability
The Research Lankshear and Knobel (2003) conclude
that children are becoming so adept at ICT use outside of school and finding computer-mediated communications so satisfying that visions of school-based literacy, as well as teachers’ pedagogical approaches, will need to adapt to become more rooted in the multi-modal literacies encompassed by ICT.
Boys prefer to write action-packed narratives ( Higgins, 2002).
‘Keep it short, keep it sharp, keep it finite’ (Noble and Bradford, 2000).
Boys are motivated where planning and drafting have clear aims (Barrs and Pidgeon, 2002).
CREATIVITYFLUENCY - generating many ideasFLEXIBILITY - shifting perspective easilyORIGINALITY - conceiving something newPURPOSE- vision AUDIENCE - contextELABORATION - building on other ideasEVALUATION - critical reflection
Writing and ICT“Stories now are open-ended, branching, hyperlinked, cross-media, participatory,
exploratory, and unpredictable. And they are told in new ways: Web 2.0
storytelling picks up these new types of stories and runs with them, accelerating
the pace of creation and participation while revealing new directions for
narratives to flow” (BRYAN ALEXANDER ANDALAN LEVINE).
Improving WritingTo improve the quality of student writing: Explicitly and systematically teach the structure
and language demands of the writing task Focus on audience and purpose Explicitly teach the thinking processes involved in
writing Immerse students in examples of the required
style of writing Model and jointly construct texts • Use guided and independent practice • Employ peer and self reflection
What do the students need to learn? Why does it matter? What do they already know? What do I want the students to do or produce
to demonstrate their learning and understanding? How will they get there? How can technology be a powerful tool? How well do I expect them to do it?
Learning first; technology as a tool!
The Learning Start with concepts
associated with writing not texts:
Characterisation Representation Narrative Voice Craft or Artistry Perception Transformation Hybridity Imagery Persuasion Manipulation
FocusTopic/Subject/Context/Outcomes
Concept + Key Question or Essential Learning StatementOverarching idea of the unit
(Deep knowledge)Key Ideas + Question
What students will learn by the end of the unit(Deep knowledge)
Key Ideas + QuestionReflect intent of the
outcomes and concept(Deep knowledge)
Key Ideas + Question(Deep knowledge)
Assessment for, as and through learning(Deep understanding, Problematic knowledge, Higher-order thinking, Explicit quality criteria)
Demonstration of key learning ideas
Pre-testing/Pre-assessment (Background knowledge - connections to prior learning)Brainstorming, Graphic organisers – KWL, mind mapping, Y chart, Lotus diagram. Quiz
Teaching StrategiesLearning Activities
Scaffolds / Models –annotated
Teaching StrategiesLearning Activities
Connected & Scaffolded
Teaching StrategiesLearning Activities
Explicit / SystematicBuilding the Field
Teaching StrategiesLearning Activities
Explicit Literacy & Numeracy Strategies
Teaching StrategiesLearning Activities
Integrated ICT
Resources: Could be placed in OneNote
ConceptualModel
The Craft of Writing
Begin with observations, chunks of writing, little moments...
Jottings: Journal, notepad, iPhone or wiki/blog
Write from experience and passion
Focus on the sound , look and feel of the words
Programming for Year 8 Writing & Creativity
Year 7 Summative Data: Audience and structure noted as a concern Australian Curriculum Strands: Language: Connecting ideas, features of
texts and cohesion; Literature: Creating. e.g. Use personal knowledge, life experience and literary texts as a starting point for creating imaginative texts in a range of literary forms; Literacy: Creating texts and Multimodal
• Achievement Standards: They create imaginative texts and present points of view that sustain meaning, reasoning and structure. They plan, draft, edit and proofread for appropriateness and accuracy.
Concept: Craft: The qualities of an effective narrative – “Stories are the lifeblood of a nation” (Garth Boomer).
Key Question: How do we craft a narrative that is engaging and affective? Key Ideas: The power of imagery and figurative devices in writing to engage and
move the reader – “Words are like ants...nothing can penetrate into the cracks and gaps of life as thoroughly or as fast as words can” (Orhan Pamuk).
How the structure of a narrative can enhance the quality of a narrative. The importance of close editing.
Programming for Writing & Creativity
Lesson delivery:- All notes, hyperlinks and sample digital narratives in
One Note.- Narrative typed in word and all editing done through
spell check, synonym check (right click on the word).- Drafts uploaded to class wiki or blog for peer
comments.- Students access online module on how to use
MovieMaker, Word, Photostory or Power Point to make digital narratives (can be already loaded to One Note from TaLe).
- Digital texts created and shared on class wiki or blog.
Digital Storytelling “Every community has a
memory of itself.A living memory, an awareness of a collective identity woven of a thousand stories.”
Craft or artistry Construction Hybridity Narrative Voice Perception Faction
Narratives for the future…
Digital Text A digital timeline A narrative A reflection A life-story Local hero A podcast Choose your own
adventure Alternative perspectives A soundscape A digital poem A news report A travel tale: Google
Earth
‘Stories are the
lifeblood of a nation’
Garth Boomer.
The Steps Students create a
folder Craft the text – word
limit! Storyboard Find or shoot the
images that enhance the text or film the text Record reading of text
on MP3 or microphone Download any sounds
or music or video clips
The Steps Students use a
storyboard to plan story, transitions and effects http://celtx.com/:
easy to use free software that has outstanding storyboard models and scaffolds for students
Digital Storytelling
Designed for a specific purpose and audience Design process with its planning,
storyboarding and selecting images and sound continually forces students to consider the quality and impact of the digital narrative Selecting images and sound focuses students
on the genre and form Peer marking encourages a focus on audience
The Sites http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo
/sites/about/pages/howto.shtml http://www.digi-tales.org/ http://www.photobus.co.uk/index.php?i
d=2 http://www.changinglives.com.au/2008/
04/abrar-autumn-and-i.html http://www.dipity.com/ - Digital timeline
The Craft of Composing a Narrative
Explicitly teach all aspects of a narrative
Zoom into the word and sentence level
Using short, timed activities Listening to the sound of
the writing Peer and self marking Quality feedback
Features of a NarrativeExplicit & Systematic Teaching Audience Genre Structure Ideas Character Setting Vocabulary Syntax Cohesion
Audience
Orient, engage and affect the reader Form and
conventions Sophistication: A
twist, irony, subversion through the unexpected
Using writers to model effective writing: Extracts from novels: http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/vintage/offthepage/extracts.htm
Flash fiction with a motif and extended metaphor. Focus on the idea first through images or quotes and
then planning the narrative using a mind map. Starting in the middle of the action focusing on the
verbs. Peer and self editing through a wiki or blog or insert
comment in Word.
Activities
Genre Conventions Subversions SettingAudience
assumptions IdeasHybridity
Activities Composing the same narrative with different
complications and resolutions. In power point or word a hyperlink could be used for each change. (Choose your own adventure). Creating a slideshow using sound, images and
words that reflect the genre. Students encouraged to use symbolism. Using movie trailers to inspire writing.
Structure Organisation of a
narrative: orientation, complication, resolution, coda Sophisticated:
flashback, different perspectives, circular, parallel, stream of consciousness, moral, reflection
Mind maps to plan for a narrative: Inspiration or Kidspiration (http://www.inspiration.com/); Webspiration: http://www.mywebspiration.com/ ; Freemind: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Download Co-authoring using One Note
Activities
Composing the same narrative using a range of structures such as circular or two different perspectives. 12-word novels and six word stories. Twitter texts Novels in 3 Lines:
http://twitter.com/novelsin3lines: Invented by Fénéon, these miniaturized, epigrammatic texts are highly compressed, self-contained stories.
Activities
Blank, befuddled, thoughtless, bemused, he sits in front of screen as boredom ensues.He accelerates. The thrill explodes! He clips the kerb, breathes his last.
Ideas Creation,
selection and crafting Sophisticated:
world view, maturity, extended metaphor, satire, motifs
Stipulated in assessment task that narrative must feature one or two significant ideas and at least one metaphor, motif or simile that reflects the idea/s A word cloud to
brainstorm ideas using Wordle -http://www.wordle.net/
Activities
Setting Development of a sense of time and place Focus on showing not telling through imagery
appealing to the senses especially sound, colour, touch and smell, strong verbs, contrast, and a variety of sentence structures.
Atmosphere Colour Symbolism Genre Authenticity Detailed descriptions What if question
Creating an uncomfortable atmosphereSight Smell Taste Sound Touch
• Harsh light/darkness• Sharp edges• Cool colours• Stainlesssteel•Flickering light•Sheets of rain
• Sour• Acrid• Heavy scent
• Vinegar• Sickly sweet
• Discordant music• High or low pitched sound•Rumbling thunder•Rasping sound
• Hard textures• Extreme temperature• Scratchy coarse textures•Cold steel of a school bench•Raised goosebumps
The Senses
Character Portrayal and
development of character
Idiosyncrasies Talismans How they move and act
in the setting Dialogue and voice Relationships Actions Perspectives and values
Activities Build your wild self (primary):
http://www.buildyourwildself.com/ - create a half-human half animal character and download them so that they can become the main character in a narrative or blog story.
Voki: http://www.voki.com/ -create an avatar for a blog story or students can play with the crafting of a character. The students can add setting, clothing and even record their character’s voice.
Podcasts: Short extracts from narrative to ‘test’ the authenticity of the voice
Vocabulary Range & precision of
language choices Sophisticated:
effective figurative and sound devices, powerful verbs, adverbs and adjectives, reflects the genre
Punctuation & Spelling
Accuracy and precision: E.g. direct speech and apostrophes used correctly Sophistication: E.g. ellipsis, difficulty
of words, such as: multisyllabic and foreign words Spell and grammar check, synonyms
Activities Glossary: for each task or
unit of work Grammar Skills:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/
Grammar Monster: http://www.grammar-monster.com/index.html
Visuword:http://www.visuwords.com/- a beautiful online thesaurus to find more effective synonyms.
Vocabulary clines, word bingo, word meaning checklist
Activities Focus on imagery
through visual images or film clips
Video clips from Youtube or films: the trailers of films or a short clip from Australian Screen or Film Australia: can be used to stimulate writing -Australian Screen: film clips: http://aso.gov.au/titles/alpha/A/ and Screen Asia – Asian films, http://dl.screenaustralia.gov.au/tag/Asia/
Cohesion
Connecting, linking & developing the narrative Sophisticated:
effective connectives, continuity of ideas, recurrent motif or theme
Paragraphing & SentencesParagraphing: Segmenting of narrative Sophisticated: Deliberately drives the pace, topic
sentences, varying paragraph length such as a single sentence paragraph
Sentences: Sound and meaningful Sophisticated: lexical density and variety of
beginnings and length, such as: complex, simple, compound sentences
Imagery Poetry http://www.abc.net.au/rn/po
etica/features/pod/ or http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do: Listen to one of the poets reading his or her poems and focus on the artistry.
Instant poetry: http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm: Students can create poetry at this site.
Sonnet Central: http://www.sonnets.org/ -access to hundreds of sonnets and recordings too inspire writing.
Poetic Creativity
Found poems created in word -"paw through popular culture like sculptors on trash heaps" Digital poems with
images Podcast poets
Rhetoric Youtube: Henry V’s Saint
Crispin’s Day Speech & Barack Obama’s victory speech
Audacity/Garage Band/Adobe Soundbooth: Critical commentary on a soliloquy
Rhetoric: http://www.putlearningfirst.com/language/20rhet/20rhet.html
American Rhetoric:http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htmVodcasts and podcasts of speeches such as Martin Luther King.
Persuasion
Persuasion 101:http://prezi.com/62290/: An introduction to persuasion. Essay Map:
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/essaymap/
Tapping into Imagery
Inanimate Alice:http://www.inanimatealice.com/ - tells the story of Alice, a young girl growing up in the first half of the 21st century in China
Dust Echoes: http://www.abc.net.au/dustechoes/dustEchoesFlash.htm -lyrical animations beautifully illustrated of Aboriginal myths.
State Library of Victoria: Mirror of the World: Books and Ideas: http://www.mirroroftheworld.com.au/ - amazing images and extracts from texts to inspire writing.
Audacity Podcasts Oral tales Interviews Speeches Advertisements Performance poetry Raps News/Weather
presentations
Writing with Shakespeare
Digital representation of a Shakespearian sonnet or a character.
Sonnet slideshow Curio box for a character in
Power Point or Photostory accompanied by a recount or personal response.
Virtual Macbeth:http://virtualmacbeth.wikispaces.com/ - a Second Life treatment of Macbeth –fabulous for provoking students into creating their own wiki or blog for one of Shakespeare’s plays or characters.
Writing with Shakespeare
Illustrated Shakespeare: http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Shakespeare.html - The paintings could be used to trigger imaginative texts about the characters in the plays.
Investigate Shakespeare: http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/#
Readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnets: http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/IMS/HarperAudio/020994_harp_ITH.html
Google Lit Trip
Explore a novel, play or poetry settings or take a road trip with an author!
Add images, commentary and key quotes
Create a unique Lit Trip for an original story, play or poem -http://www.googlelittrips.org/
Whitby Abbey
Critical Reflection
Meta-writing is not a strength of boys Invites deeper
understanding and promotes greater self-awareness of writing skills and knowledge Digital Portfolios Wikis and Blogs Podcasts
Quality Feedback Constructive Precise Connected to what is
being assessed Timely Frequent (Holmes &
Papageourgiou, 2009) Invites self-assessment
and self-reflection Informs future teaching
and learning
Using a class wiki or blog where work can be shared and critiqued Ideas, approaches
and craft of writing Publishing for an
audience
Quality Feedback
Great Web20 Resources
Box of tricks – A-Z of internet sites: http://www.boxoftricks.net/?page_id=29
Cooltoolsforschools Wiki: http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/?responseToken=08d40fc592f425e0609f7b90a024fde22
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