Writing and the Web

Jen Deyenberg

Where areyour studentswriting? What is writing?

If text and writingare changing –what does thismean for ourclassrooms?

Texts not only include those presented in traditional written or print form, but also orally, electronically or onfilm. Texts can be in continuous form, including traditional formal prose, or non-continuous, for example charts and graphs. The literacy framework reflects the increased use of multimodal texts, digital communication, social networking and the other forms of electronic communication encountered by children and young people in their daily lives. It recognises that the skills which children and young people need to learn to read these texts differ from the skills they need for reading continuous prose.

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The Changing Writing Process

OnlinePublishing: Risks?Rewards?Audience!

“The results were fabulous! First and foremost,EVERY student improved their writing havingidentified weaknesses with the Wordle starter.Seeing the words in pictorial form helped themidentify what they needed to change abouttheir language choices in order to better meetthe brief” (Sutherland, 2011). “The Wiki encouraged them to think much more precisely about editing their work because they knew their friends (and me) were logged in and watching what they were doing. There was a real buzz about the place. Every time a new post came in there was a little yelp of excitement. Best of all, the class barely needed me there to achieve. This was true independent learning. I was definitely facilitating rather than teaching!” (Sutherland, 2011).

“One pupil (usually quite unmotivated)even found some internet links aboutwriting to persuade and started anadditional discussion topic where hepasted them for his friends to use.Awesome! Even more awesome, when Istarted a discussion forum entitled ‘whathave you learned from your friendstoday’ many of them excitedly postedspecific skills they had improved, whichdemonstrated that they had reallyengaged with the assessment processand thoroughly understood how toimprove” (Sutherland, 2011)

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