I use computers to discover alternative examples of genres. For example, my students are writing a narrative and I want them to identify uncommon examples of narratives such as commercials and advertisements that can help them to incorporate innovative techniques into their writing style. I also use the computer classroom as a collaborative space where students share their documents and create new documents (mostly in Google Drive) as a way to perform peer review and topic ideation.
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I also dig the way technology allows students to more easily collaborate on documents together. I’m interested in your narrative project: what form does their narrative take? Or can they choose a form that best fits their narrative? It sounds like you could take that assignment in a lot of interesting directions.
Because of mentoring this semester, I have asked my students and TAs to assign a narrative that requires primary research through the act of taking pictures and/or video (almost NO students or TAs choose video). They goal is to narrate something about their lives.
This semester, they have to narrate the influence of a specific technology on their lives. An example of this might be the speedy coffee making technologies at Starbucks and how they have enhanced my addiction. So I would take pictures of the line, the coffee making processes, include wait time stamps. The assignment also requires students take field notes and translate those notes into their writing.