The following stories are part of an activity involving collaborative writing using Google Docs as mediator.
Bringing up Prof. Janaina's post on september 2009: "It all started last June at the ABRAPUI convention in São Paulo, when I attended a very interesting workshop on how to use google docs in English writing classes. I then decided to experiment google docs with my Reading and Writing students at UFRN this semester, and I've been really impressed with the outcomes !
With google docs, the teacher can have several students writing a story together from different computers at the same time, usually extra-class. When it comes to writing stories with google docs, students can interact and negotiate online what the most appropriate lexico-grammatical choices are, for instance. Another advantage of co-writing stories is that if you suddently run out of ideas or get stuck with your story (which students commonly report to happen), there are other people who may make up for that and continue the story just as beautifully."
Now I had the pleasure to work on this project with her and I could see that the advantages of bringing new tools to students are many. Google Docs is a great example. We had the opportunity to ask the participants through a questionnaire about their feelings and impressions related to the activity and most of them responded positively. They did so that gave us those amazing stories as product!
The stories published on November of this year are all Flash Fiction style. The others are not, but they were also co-written with google docs, departing from a common prompt (a sentence to be fit at some point in the story).
Now you can read and enjoy them!
Thank you Jana, thanks Jana's students and classmates. I loved it!
Wilka
Bringing up Prof. Janaina's post on september 2009: "It all started last June at the ABRAPUI convention in São Paulo, when I attended a very interesting workshop on how to use google docs in English writing classes. I then decided to experiment google docs with my Reading and Writing students at UFRN this semester, and I've been really impressed with the outcomes !
With google docs, the teacher can have several students writing a story together from different computers at the same time, usually extra-class. When it comes to writing stories with google docs, students can interact and negotiate online what the most appropriate lexico-grammatical choices are, for instance. Another advantage of co-writing stories is that if you suddently run out of ideas or get stuck with your story (which students commonly report to happen), there are other people who may make up for that and continue the story just as beautifully."
Now I had the pleasure to work on this project with her and I could see that the advantages of bringing new tools to students are many. Google Docs is a great example. We had the opportunity to ask the participants through a questionnaire about their feelings and impressions related to the activity and most of them responded positively. They did so that gave us those amazing stories as product!
The stories published on November of this year are all Flash Fiction style. The others are not, but they were also co-written with google docs, departing from a common prompt (a sentence to be fit at some point in the story).
Now you can read and enjoy them!
Thank you Jana, thanks Jana's students and classmates. I loved it!
Wilka
2 comentários:
LOVE LOVE LOVE THE BLOG!!!!! GREAT JOB WILKA!!! PROFA. JANAINA!!! THE WRITING IS EXCITING and everything I hoped would come out of our first experiments with flash fiction in the UFRN "DON'T BE DULL EFL READING AND WRITING WORKSHOP" in 2009: that students would see themselves as creative writers in the foreign language, sitting in the same chair as Nabokov or Conrad, who were also both second language speakers of English; that they would free themselves up from the straightjackets of imitation, to boldly produce authenitc creative writing in the second language, has come to fruition and surpassed my expectations. Profa. Janaina, bravo!!! Wilka and students, bravo!!! Right on with the write on!! YOur number one fan and follower !!! Jennifer
Thank you Jenn! Yeah, you were right. The flash fictions are really great, thank the equally great teachers we have.
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