- To begin, my emotion survey: I am in the middle at a “3”.
- My question as of February 10th is: What happens when the writing process is taught digitally, from brainstorming to the final draft?
- Since our last meeting I have finished a writing piece with the students where they had to complete all of the writing process steps, from brainstorming to editing / revising, by hand. When the students completed the assignment they typed their final draft on the computer. I created an attitude survey and had the students fill it out. I am feeling good because I finally have some data! J
- My next step is to begin the next piece of writing and I will have the students use the computers for the entire writing process. I will teach mini lessons to go with each part of the writing process; that way the students will be able to see the writing process digitally and the thinking that is involved when publishing digitally. In addition, I have been journaling some, which is important as this process and the thoughts running through my head change on a daily basis. I am planning on using my journaling as data. I think it will be helpful in telling the story of this journey.
- The next step: I will be teaching the writing process and working through a piece of writing with the students (digitally). The assignment will be different than the above-mentioned assignment. I am wondering if that will skew my data. Group, do you think I should have the students create a similar piece (as the hand-written to computer published assignment) so that the writing is similar to compare? Also, after comparing “paper/ pencil to digital” to “fully digital” writers workshop should I have the students publish a piece of work on the computer that is not a traditional piece of writing (website, PowerPoint, bog, etc.) and then administer an attitude survey to serve as another piece of data, or does that not really relate to my focus?
If you have thoughts for either of these questions or suggestions please advise me.
Thanks! Liz
Changing the assignment...I am not sure. It seems like if the basis of the experiment is going through the writing process that the actual assignment would not matter as much. Both assignments would be done through the writer's workshop structure, so if the assignment changed I am not sure that it would matter??
ReplyDeleteI think it would be interesting to see if the kids knew that making an alternative presentation on the computer needed to go through the same writing process. We talked about them not knowing that you STILL go through the writing process if you are typing... so I think it could be valuable. Just depends on if you want to go there or not. :)
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of comparing their handwritten pieces to the typed pieces!