Today I want to introduce you two wonderful ways to teach and develop Writing Skills. Writing is considerer the most difficult for the L2 learners. So, is important look for different strategies to teach this skill and also, that students could feel able to develop their knowledge related to writing.
This is a great opportunity, as you can see in the image, you can invite to everybody to write a collaborative writing and create stories, essays, letters, etc.
TitanPad is a great opportunity to creat collaborative teamwork between students and I will use it with high school students because they have more access to technology and they should have more English language knowledge. However, the collaborative writing allows you, as teacher, create a diverse group with four or five students and this group can be compused by a student who has good grammar, other who is good in creativity, other who is good punctuation and other one who can be good in coherence.
Task Based Language Learning would go very well with this website because a teacher can give to the students interesting task to do in the class and the students will able to do at time and they can include the teacher in the platform and receive instant feedback.
By Vanessa Martínez :)
This tool is similar to "Google Drive" , personally I like this type of collaborative writing, also I think that one of the advantages of Titan Pad is that is easier to use that "google drive document". Titan pad might be use as a first approch for 8th graders to write a task online with their classmates.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand as you said, sometimes this type of platform may be use in a non academical way. Sadly situations like the one that you described, only depends on the students.