“Technology is increasingly being recognized for its potential to support K-12 writing instruction. Research has shown the positive effects of word processing, spell-check, speech recognition, and multimedia software on different stages of the writing process (224).”

In today’s world, technology is surrounding us and because of this, students need to learn how to be fluent in how to use technology. Students use technology to check spelling to completing pieces of art. Along with this, students need to write, so why not interweaving the two? There are a variety of ways for teachers to be able to apply writing in the form of technology in their classroom.

“Electronic text is also easily manipulated. Writers can change background colors, font styles, and the placement of graphics to determine the best format for their writing (224).”

This is beneficial for students with special needs because it is easier to highlight text and enlarge it if need be. All students want to be able to express themselves and this is easily done with electronic texts. Students can make their piece of work look how they want it to opposed to being just pen and paper.

One major way that technology is used is by typing up papers, but teachers can get more in depth by using resources such as blogs. As college students, we have been using a blog in our class. This is something that can easily be done within a variety of classrooms. This can be set up in different ways; either each student can have their own blog or there can be a class blog which all students could log into. Students will feel as if they are publishing their work to share with their family members and friends. There may be many people seeing their writing, and possibly responding to it. Because of this, students feel the need to put more effort into their work.

I really enjoyed collaborative internet projects. My favorite part is how students have control over their learning. Students use something they learned in class then expand t by doing research. The students then present the information using a variety of different genres. When students are given choices they are more likely to enjoy what they are learning and ultimately want to learn. Students will also be proud of their end project because it becomes their turn to be the teachers and teach their fellow classmates about what they learned.

Overall, technology makes learning, and writing, more fun and interactive for our students. Technology gives students ways to express themselves as well as show off their work. As teachers, it is our job to demonstrate to our students that they can, and should be, proud of all that they accomplished and learned.