Using Technology to Teach Writing Skills

Besides traditional techniques to teach students how to write properly, teachers can use some other interesting ways to reach this goal. Technology offers a wide variety of options. For example,

• Using this website http://www.telescopictext.org/write/ you can ask your students to create their own story. The funny thing about this tool is that students can either fold or unfold pieces of their story. In this way they can learn writing skills and share their work with their peers while having fun.
• This is another tool by Google where you can create a short story with as many characters as you want. You can also add some music according to the story’s track. Your students are going to love it! This is an example of a dialogue among three characters I made myself. You can go ahead and create your own or better yet you can ask your students to do so.   http://goo.gl/TZOyhN
• This is a website on which you can create your own comic strip or a complete comic book if you prefer. Comics are quite in trend nowadays so you can take advantage of it and use this as a tool to enhance your student’s understanding, creativity and their writing skills at the same time.  Here is the website and an example of a strip I did about two powerful girls fighting against each other. http://marvel.com/games/play/34/create_your_own_comic