ways to improve writing through technology

ways to improve writing through technology

1. microblogs

   • ties hand in hand with social networking
   • short, concise works of writing
     • social purposes
     • academic purposes
   • Blogs are longer and more narrative in nature and are published for all to read
   • more positive outcome than conventional journaling with conventional pen and paper method.
   • microbloggers are simultaneously readers and authors
   • students can read their partner's responses before writing, also read their responses father they have written.

2. Digital literacy gaming

   • areas of composition such as engagement, problem-solving, collaboration, and audience
   • Students can use the skills they already use in gaming in writing
   • digital literacies involve the public nature of writing, social network through technological mediums
   • gaming allows participants to learn by doing on a grand scale.
     • Through the majority of the games that students play, they are practicing complex thinking, problem-solving, strategizing, investigating, and understanding rules and codes of simulated words
       • Students are delivering and receiving immediate feedback.
     • Games can help students to become more critical.
   • Students play games through social network sites like Facebook that they can access from various devices, such as computers, mobile phones, etc.
     • Facebook is one of the platforms many students access practically on a daily basis.
       • it is free
       • it is not necessary to download any application
       • students don't need to share their private life with teachers or peers
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         • Students can be engaged with the writing process by keeping a journal with them and writing for ten to fifteen minutes at a time though the day
         • students can write about their experiences within any gaming world by describing what that world looks like.
     • problem solving and questioning

3. A mobile-based learning tool to improve writing skills

   • the acquisition of knowledge through mobile devices.
     • anywhere and anytime
     • podcasts
       • audio or video files transmitted through the internet.
     • it allows students to practice their skills outside the classroom.
   • the functional-systemic linguistic conceives language as a resource to build, elaborate, explain meanings immersed in the social and cultural context.
   • genre approach
     • some genres can be used
       • Personal recounts are texts that reconstruct a past experience containing a series of events and its aim is to retell them.
       • Autobiographies are texts used to tell significant events in the life of the writer
       • Short stories are texts that require the following structure, an orientation, a complication and a resolution.