After last week’s post on our google community, many important questions arose which made our level further think about how we will transform students’ learning by using technology. Some questions that were brought up were: Will the students be more motivated to write if the purpose is for a global audience? Will they see a whole new meaning to writing rather than just to “please the teacher?”

Last week, we have discussed how technology will be used within our groups to make their writing more purposeful and meaningful. We believe that if their writing were to published to a more wider community/ world, it will give the students the motivation and purpose to write. Our level at the moment, are now looking for schools that have blogs, that we can collaborate with. Meanwhile in order to make writing more meaningful and purposeful for my students, we are creating showmes at the moment that will eventually be published to our level blog where other students from the other groups will get a chance to view and comment, but also students from other schools too. Within my writing group, we have been focussing on representing an explanation report using a flowchart. One way to present their work was using a video. The students have been working really hard to create their showmes, using the correct language, pictures and also thinking about explanation features such as sequencing words. Telling the students that their showmes will be published online for many to see, really gave them a purpose to try hard and make their explanation videos the best they can.