Digital Writing

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.❤❤