CALL Writing Activities

Journal writing on L2 learner's blog

• My class blog project  sample student blog (from CAU freshmen, Google blog)

       Hobin's blog | Valerie's blog | Jaehyung's English blog | Sooheun's blog


Authentic writing tasks using Twitter (for beginning level)

- Write your profile by using more than three keywords that describe yourself.

        - Search famous people in twitter and follow at least five people that you like.

        - Read their recent mentions and reply at them.

        - Choose one of the mentions that you really agree on and retweet it and explain what it 

           means in Korean.

    

•      Kim, H. (2010). Three teachers’ initial efforts to use Twitter in public English class. Multimedia- Assisted  Language Learning, 13(2), 126-150.  

Wiki Collaborative Writing

• Examples of Wiki tasks

        - Sleeping Ugly (my inclass activity)
       - numerous wiki activities from Sze's article (from I-TESL-J)  
       - Good ideas and project samples by middle school teachers.

•  Free Good wikis for L2 writing

        - Wikispace http://www.wikispaces.com/  (Recommended)

        - PB works http://pbworks.com/(Recommended)

        - MediaWiki http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki 

         -Dockuwiki http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki

        -PM Wiki http://www.pmwiki.org/

• TESOL 2012 Electronic Village "Why use a wiki with our student? http://tesolpresent.pbworks.com/w/page/49136982/Why-Use-a-Wiki-with-Students