Advanced Language Teaching: Technology-Enhanced Creative Writing
This week, officially, week 19 of the academic year, I begin two new modules. The first of which is Technology-Enhanced Creative Writing (for Advanced Learners). I’m very excited to start this ‘hands-on’ module where I expect to not only learn how to make my own creative writing activities, but also to how to improve my own writing skills.
Here’s a short video about my expectations for the module, my experience of creative writing and teaching, and my reflections of the benefits of using creative writing in the foreign language classroom.
Hi Karina,
Thanks for your introduction video. I found interesting that you wonder about the transferable skills you have acquired through your blogging into CW as I also started writing for my blog without any guidance and so as you say I also wonder now whether I have been adhering to the norms of blogging. I think we have while developing our own styles which is really cool when I think of it! You also made me think about structure and so I share your ideas and surprise that the task we were given, without very much structure or guidance, stands very well on its own. I look forward to working with you again this semester!
Hi Robert,
Thanks for your message. You are one of the first to comment on my blog, which makes me I realise that I have failed to open it up to a wider audience, despite it being almost 3 years old! At first I worried about content (now there’s plenty of that), and then about appearance (still an issue – no time to learn WordPress!). However, if a blog is just about what you think – it can’t be that ‘wrong’! So I welcome the fact that, this semester, our classmates will be reading each others’ blogs and giving feedback. Indeed, last semester, for the Social Media in the Classroom homework, I selected Academic Writing through Blogging and learnt, among other things, that collaborative dialogue via blogging, through simple question and comments from your peers, is likely to stimulate some form of critical thinking, if not critical action, which leads to deeper learning. For me, the action now is to be more pro-active by inviting those I meet interesting in teaching and learning to subscribe to my blog. Look how stimulating one innocent post can be! Thanks, Robert!