Self-Publishing for Students

MayaWest Writing Project

Prof. Arlinda Lopez

WHO AM I

• Prof. Arlinda López Rodriguez

• UPR, Aguadilla

• 24 years teaching

• Areas of interest: TESL, technology integration, teacher preparation, professional development

• Philosophy: humanistic constructivist; critical pedagogy

Objectives

• Highlight theories that support the use of technology in writing.

• Model the use of technology, online story generators, for creative writing.

• Practice using online story generators

DEPR Grade-level Expectations

Through the use of an online story generating program the student will: (W 4 – W12)

-Conceptual: Apply organizational patterns and the elements of narrative forms to create a story.

-Procedural: Write a story using correct sentence structures and punctuation.

-Attitudinal: Willingly use writing in a creative manner.

THEORIES THAT SUPPORT

• Social Constructionist Theory• Main Idea: Knowledge constructed by group discourse

(Piaget; Vygostsky; Bandura)

• Technology integration• actively engaging students

• provides multiple windows for social interactions

• users are active participants, engaged in creating, maintaining and expanding Web content

Lesson DevelopmentLearning Activities:

• After reviewing the story elements, students will work together with a peer to write a short story using an online story generator.

• Teacher will discuss the project rubric with students.

• The teacher will hand out graphic organizers so that the students can organize their ideas for their story.

Lesson Development• The teacher will present the online story generator, My

Story Maker to students.

• Each pair of students will develop their characters, choose their settings and write a coherent story that includes: introduction, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.

• After completing the story, the students can read their work from the Author’s Chair.

Online Story Generator

AUTHOR’S CHAIR

Resources• Scholastics. (2013). Graphic organizers for reading

comprehension. Retrieved on August 13, 2013 from http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/graphic-organizers-reading-comprehension

• Story writing rubric. Retrieved on August 13, 2013 from http://engres.ied.edu.hk/lang_arts/tasks/sampleAsseRubrics/Story_Writing_Rubric.pdf

• Weighted Rubric for Short Story Using Research 100 pts. Retrieved on August 13, 2013 from http://www.d.umn.edu/~moor0145/storyrubric.htm