writing taks (web- tool)[1] presentation josa natalia
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Writing with Storybird
Web- tools for writing skills (ESL)
Introducing a web- tool to your class!
Natalia Serna SumayaJosafat Negrete Martínez
Overview• What does writing imply?
• Materials evaluation
• Authentic learning
• Web- tool
What is writing?• Independence
• Comprehensibility
• Fluency
• Creativityhttp://www.sil.org/lingualinks/literacy/referencematerials/glossaryofliteracyterms/whatarewritingskills.htm
Abilities Thoughts into words
Meaningful forms
Giving a class using a web- tool to develop certain skill…
Why?
Benefits• Engaging students.
• Avoiding monotony.
• Allow students to let their imagination expand.
Materials evaluation and design
• Introducing writing skills to a class using a web- tool.
Authentic learning
Authentic context
Authentic activities
Expert performance
Multiple perspectives
Collaboration
Reflection
Coaching and Scaffolding
Authentic assessment
Integrating web tools that are easy to
use.
Keep them practicing what they have
learned.
Motivation
Main goal
Story BirdCollaborative Storytelling
• http://storybird.com/accounts/login/
Exercise
• Open mind 3
Unit 3, (page 123) • “Think of what your perfect
workplace would be like and why you would like it. Start your paragraph with a topic sentence and end with a concluding sentence. Use a variety of descriptive adjectives. Your description must be of about 80 words.”
Activity!• Write a story of 3 pages about any topic
you want!
• Writing skill
• Materials evaluation
• Web- tools
• Authentic learning
• Writers are independent when they are able to write without much assistance.
• Hampton (1989)