Writing with Storybird

Web- tools for writing skills (ESL)

Introducing a web- tool to your class!

Natalia Serna SumayaJosafat Negrete Martínez

Overview• What does writing imply?

• Materials evaluation

• Authentic learning

• Web- tool

What is writing?• Independence

• Comprehensibility

• Fluency

• Creativityhttp://www.sil.org/lingualinks/literacy/referencematerials/glossaryofliteracyterms/whatarewritingskills.htm

Abilities Thoughts into words

Meaningful forms

Giving a class using a web- tool to develop certain skill…

Why?

Benefits• Engaging students.

• Avoiding monotony.

• Allow students to let their imagination expand.

Materials evaluation and design

• Introducing writing skills to a class using a web- tool.

Authentic learning

Authentic context

Authentic activities

Expert performance

Multiple perspectives

Collaboration

Reflection

Coaching and Scaffolding

Authentic assessment

Integrating web tools that are easy to

use.

Keep them practicing what they have

learned.

Motivation

Main goal

Story BirdCollaborative Storytelling

• http://storybird.com/accounts/login/

Exercise

• Open mind 3

Unit 3, (page 123) • “Think of what your perfect

workplace would be like and why you would like it. Start your paragraph with a topic sentence and end with a concluding sentence. Use a variety of descriptive adjectives. Your description must be of about 80 words.”

Activity!• Write a story of 3 pages about any topic

you want!

• Writing skill

• Materials evaluation

• Web- tools

• Authentic learning

• Writers are independent when they are able to write without much assistance.

• Hampton (1989)

• Josa_1102_nm@hotmail.com• natyzumaya@gmail.com