In the odd semester last year, I decided to embed collaborative writing activity into my writing class. Thirty pre-service English teachers of a university in Indonesia were put into seven groups and were assigned into an eight-week collaborative writing project using Google docs. Each group was assigned to write two essays collaboratively on Google docs.I…
C-map for Semantic Mapping
I was really happy when my group mate, Huang, picked C-map as our tool for this project. As a visual learner, I think mapping tools are really helpful to map and describe abstract concepts. Since the multimodal tutorial assignment also expects us to come up with a creative way of using the technology for language…