Inspiration and the textbook

Writing is an essential tool used throughout our lives. It is the building block toward typing. First, we have to think it then we began writing it in elementary school and then we move on to typing papers in high school. In order to make writing fun teachers have to attract students. Make the lesson fun for students to participate in by making the writing process an all inclusive process. One way to do this is through the inspiration program. The inspiration program would allow students to use visual concept maps to layout the ideas behind their writing papers. It allows them the oppurtunity to use technology to express their thoughts and to visually make connections as the student moves through his or her thinking process. Other programs students can use to express themselves while learning is the poetry forge program. This technological program allows students access to open source writing tools for the English classroom. These open source tools include a metaphor generator and a tool for building new poems. This may be very useful in an English when the teacher is trying to teach poetry and figurative language. I think that one way to teach at an accelerated rate is through peer feedback so maybe the teacher could create a blog where students post their work and require at least 2 student response for each assignment. Maybe the teacher could create her own class webite group on a social network like facebook and allow students to respond to each others work individually in private boxes if the student doest want other students to know. Peer feedback can be used to enhance learning because students may be more responsive to the opinions of their classmates than to the teachers or the student feedback may have a different perspective than the teachers which may in term help the student to be able to look at the way he or she writes in a new way and will help the student grow as a writer. Student feedback should be praised and encouraged.