Session 9 (Teaching Writing: Collaborative writing using online collaborative tool)

Hi everyone!
My group has been present our presentation  "Teaching Writing: Collaborative writing using online collaborative tool".
It's very nice way to have live writing discussion, but I think using Whatsapp, telegram, because those of apps easier than using website writing.



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?

Writing Clip Art
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.

  1. Teaching writing using technology
  2. Routledge- 10 ways to use technology to teach writing
  3. 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

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