Digital Writing Skills
Friday, May 30, 2025
1:00 – 3:00 PM (online only via Zoom)
Do you have learners who want to develop their writing skills? While writing skills have always been important for navigating daily life, it is increasingly done online. Digital writing requires three kinds of skills - writing, keyboarding, and word processing. In this workshop, we will show you how to teach academic writing skills using interactive class activities. We will also show you free online resources to assess digital literacy, and teach keyboarding, word processing, and grammar skills.
Workshop Learning Objectives - Participants will learn how to:
- Participants will be able to access and use a free digital literacy assessment.
- Describe instructional activities to teach about paragraphs, writing mechanics and about argumentative essays.
- Describe how to access and use free instructional online tools such as keyboarding, word processing, and grammar.
Presenter:
Dr. Christine Miller is the Assistant Project Director of the Writing in Adult Education Project at Georgia State University. Her primary research interests include literacy development, curriculum development, and technology-assisted instruction. She has published and presented her research in peer-reviewed journals and conferences for practitioners, program administrators, and researchers. Her experience teaching reading to adults at a community-based program ignited her passion for bridging scientific research to practices in adult education.
Dr. Daphne Greenberg is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Learning Sciences at Georgia State University. As the Director of the Adult Literacy Research Center at GSU, her research focuses on adults who have difficulty with functional academic skills. She has published and presented in many peer-reviewed
This workshop is free to staff of all Massachusetts non-profit ABE and ESOL Programs.
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