1. What are the problems struggling writers have in
writing classes?😕
💙1. The struggling writers are often less motivated to write and
fails to organize their ideas. These learners usually have poor handwriting (or
has difficulty to write) and writes slowly or illegibly.
💙2. The struggling writers express their idea through
composition and sometimes have trouble communicating and understanding their
teachers and peers during discussion in the classroom.
💙3. The struggling writers lack of confidence in producing text
and insecure feelings about showing their writing to others, in particular to
their peers.
💙4. The struggling writers have negative attitudes towards
writing and often have low motivation to write. This results in spending less time
writing, reviewing, planning, etc.
2. What does 'digital writing' refer to?😕
📱Digital writing is the way to communicate with each other and does not follow the conventions of what is considered traditional
writing. Rather, it is less formal, often has conversational style, involves
shorthand, is less focused on grammar and writing patterns, and sometimes
features images and audio.
3. What are the three digital writing tools? Give brief
descriptions?😕
💛Blogs is a
discussion, informational article or personal journal, published on the World
Wide Web, which is often frequently updated.
💛Instant Messaging (IM) is a form of Internet-based, real
time text communication between users on the same system such as MSN, Line,
Twitter, Skype, chat-room.
💛Social Network Site is a website or an online service
platform in which people share interest, create a public or semi-public
profile, and interact with other users such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedln, and
My Space.
4. How has digital writing enhanced the teaching of writing?😕
✒1. Many digital writing applications offer an
anonymity feature. They provide opportunities for users to use nicknames or
pseudonyms. This anonymous identity results in less anxiety and more pleasant
classrooms.
✒2.In digital writing, learners actually type out what
they want to communicate to the group or readers. This emulated real-time
communication is perceived as advantageous since learners can see what their
partners intend to communicate through the typed text.
✒3. Digital writing promotes learners equity in terms of
interaction. All users have an equal opportunity to type their messages
and respond to other people's messages, this feature reduces teachers'
authority, increases student-centered learning, promotes student participation.
✒4. Many digital
writings have history logs where users can view the history of the
conversations they have had with others. With this feature. instructors are
able to keep track of learners' interaction records through the history logs
with no intervention to learners while actively writing.
✒ 5. Digital writing offers authentic language environments.
✒6. Digital writing involves different modes of representation
combining text, audio, video, still images, animation, and interactive features
together-this multimedia writing environment can capture learners' attention
and interest and suits learners' different learning styles.
5. What are the things that you should take into consideration to
employ digital writing for teaching academic writing?😕
😢Shorthand and emoticons may yield negative impact to many
teen users.
😢Digital writing discourse can harm young Generation M
learners' academic discourse.
😢Easy to- use symbolic abbreviations will likely deconstruct
verifiable grammatical rules
😢Digital writing discourse shorthand, abbreviations and
emoticons make no sense outside of the digital writing discourse community.
6. Which activity do you like most? Why?😕
❤❤I like Activity 8 Closed Group Community the most because the
teacher can create a closed group and the students can use this closed group as
a channel to submit any assignment to their teacher, share ideas or knowledge. Moreover,
students can have a chance to share and learn from each other some creative
writing assignments.❤❤
