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Mariana (Lara)
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Date Posted: 12:27:09 08/18/13 Sun
The Google Docs, has recently change its name for Google Drive. And I have been using it for a long time, and one of the curious things I noticed is that people found it too complicated to work on together. I've tried many times to have my work group working on the same paper through Google Drive. The responses I had was that some people did not have sufficient technology skills to understand the concept of a document that can be edited by various people simultaneously and I found myself and another friend working on fragments from other group members to make the project seems linear and solid.
When a group needs to work together, the center idea of how the group are going to organize itself is that, the project will be separated and each one of the group will be responsible for a single part of the project. Later on, someone will put the "Frankenstein" together and fix wherever coherence issues it has. When it comes to a new situation, a simultaneous work, it is still hard to have everybody working on the writing part at the same time. What I have seen is that, the functionality of the shared document it is most likely to have all the group aware of the project and finding solutions easily when it comes to a difficult situation rather than the writing collaboration itself. That is why I understand that the data used on the research was not sufficient to measure students writing participation on the projects. The participation is not only writing, but sharing ideas, talking (even through online chats), searching data online or offline, etc. It can happens that the group select someone to write the text content, and the group will be responsible to analyse data and discuss the text format, etc. How can we consider all this variation of the use of technology for writing collaboration in research?
I believe the writing collaboration in L2, considering Google Drive as a tool, must be directed and guided to a collaboration in which students may contribute in writing. Specially new generation of students has familiarity with technology tools, and when it comes to the use of it, most of the times they are instinctive. It is easy for them to work on a collaborative project. But students that are just knowing about some tools, the teachers will come to a situation in which they will have to introduce a new perspective of group work and the initiate a class process that will enable collaborative writing.
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