Week 11: Flickr, Writing & Technology

The class started out on the Monday of the week, as usual. Erin A. gave a presentation on how to use Flickr in the classroom. It opens learners' minds

How can we use technology?

- Feedback/assessment
- Collaborative writing
- Writing as a social activity
- Teaching paraphrasing/avoiding plagiarism

Ferris (2012)
- Using comment features in Word clearer and more detailed than pen on paper. You can easily recycle comments. Also, can include links to resources.
- Check My Words (a place for lexical choices), Lex Tutor (AWL Highlighter), Google

- Computer-mediated Feedback: can use screencasting for feedback. Ducate & Arnold (2012) used Jing to record 5 minute feedback from teachers, students were given the URL to watch.
- Video feedback was more effective that the in-text comments. But in some cases, the opposite is more effective...

Feedback 2.0

Storch (2012)
- Co-authoring vs. collaborative writing. We write together rather than you write one part and I the other. 

Online writing tools:
Pb Wiki
Media Wiki
Wiki Space
Educational Wiki
Wetpaint Wiki

Kessler (2012)
- The social and public nature of online writing can be motivational. Students become comfortable with the technology and writing; online writing also considers multiple literacies and can aid writing instruction. Writing is far less interactive (than what? how so?).

Turnitin/WriteCheck
- A paid writing checker to see if papers are plagiarized.
- A paid thingy for students to fix plagiarized papers.

I set up a pbwiki, but no clue how to use it. Used tah247 email