TELL COURSE : WEEK 2 & 3

Technology For Teaching Writing

On Monday, January 27,2020, and February 3, 2020, it was the second and third meeting of TELL course, in this meeting we discussed about Technology for Teaching Writing. In this topic, I learnt several important things in Teaching and Learning Writing through Technology, some points are :

• Technology-Writing connection
•  Important Role, technology provides access to many different way for students to learn, support and apply the use of technology in teaching and learning writing.
•  Establish Relationship, technology provides ways to collaborate with other people ( work in group )
•  Makes Fun
•  Collaboration Software, technology provides various resources in form of example and models for students in writing.

 The example of platforms or sources are Word Processor and Collaborative Software.

What teacher should know about writing?

There are three critical aspects in writing, they are :

- Register Variation : Written language varies according to the social context, purpose, and audience, we can see the example how the language choice has to be different depend in what your talking about to your friends or introducing your research to professional audience of general readers.

- Writing as Process Orientation : Writing requires multiple drafts, we saw how this idea has really been pushed forward and played out through the introduction of word processiong in the writing process.

      - Writing as Interperonal Function : Writing builds identity and relationship.

Furthermore, we were divided into groups to create simple syllabus for each group with different topics, the syllabus consists of the level, the materials, the technology, and the method in teaching. After the groups create the syllabus, they will present it per meeting/week, and in third week it's  time to group 1 to present their syllabus with the topic design syllabus for teaching writing.