1. Using OneDrive and online word to work collaborative writing Context: English foreign language class Level: Intermediate Students age: Class: English focused on writing Number of students: 18 Time: 4 hours per week
*The lesson focuses on fostering writing skills through a collaborative online learning environment. For this class plan, students take classes in an English laboratory where teachers and students have access to computers and smart boards with internet connection.

2. The Use of Microsoft technologies in innovative ways in the English classroom Lesson Review Resources .
This lesson is designed to teach young adults to work on writing in a collaborative environment. To do this, OneDrive and online word are taken as tools to develop the content
Learn more

3. How can we collaborate in writing activities?
Using OneDrive and online word to work collaborative writing
How can we collaborate in writing activities?
*Teacher can start the lesson by asking students ideas and thoughts about collaboration in writing. How they can work through a collaborative learning enviroment

4. Using OneDrive and online word to work collaborative writing
First: The teacher creates (previously) the writing task 1, a spreadsheet with 36 pages and write the instructions at the top of each page. ( Teacher writes the guideline as follow)
Instructions:
Paragraph 1
Write about a Typical Food from Colombia. Describe it by giving as many details as possible ( lines approx.)
Paragraph 2
Write about a typical food from a country you would like to visit. Describe it by giving as many details as possible ( lines approx.)
Two pages are assigned with students´ name to each one in the class (one page for paragraph 1 and one page for paragraph 2. Teacher shares with the students the document through OneDrive allowing all of them to edit
*Teacher displays the spreadsheet on the smarboard in order to give general instructions to the whole group
Estimate time: 10 minutes for instructions and questions

5. Using OneDrive and online word to work collaborative writingP M N T
Second: As each student was assigned two pages, the first one to write about a typical food from our country and the second one to write about a typical food from another country. They are informed that each sheet has a section for a collaborative task; it is, for partners to write comments and suggestions about possible mistakes and how to improve the paragraphs and that is the second part of the lesson and they were not allowed to write comments until the teacher provided instructions to do so.
Third: students start to write their paragraphs about a typical food from our country and a paragraph about a typical food from a different part of the world. They receive instructions about the font they are using in order to keep working in order and only in their corresponding pages
*Topic chosen to write about was based on current vocabulary of the unit in the course book (Food)
*Students are encouraged to read about food around the world before they start typing ( estimate time 20 minutes
*Teacher monitors from the computer master or wallk through the aisles in the classroom

6. Using OneDrive and online word to work collaborative writing
Forth: After students have written their two short paragraphs, they are ready to start the collaborative work. They are asked to pair up so the teacher can assign a corresponding checker to each one. The teacher gives instructions about how to write suggestions and comments. Students begin writing comments in the corresponding partners ‘section, about punctuation, grammar issues among other mistakes that they consider that need to be revised. They used the tools provided by word. (Highlighting adding comments etc)
Fifth: Teacher monitors the process and assign them to write a final version as homework for their two paragraphs, taking into account partners suggestions and teacher´s general suggestions and final feedback. As students are able to give and receive suggestions to and from a partner, and able to see the whole document with all the paragraphs and comments, they can reflect about the writing process and gain skills in order to foster their own writing skills.
*The teacher can set them free to choose their partners to provide comments or decide the pairs.
*(In order to keep track of the collaborative section, It is good to keep a chart with the corresponding students´name checkers )

7. Using OneDrive and online word to work collaborative writing

8. Using OneDrive and online word to work collaborative writing Prons Cons .
Motivate students to foster writing skills by using an online learning enviroment
Students can build self-reflection skills
Formative assessment can be used to improve quality of writing.
Students can tend to copy and paste paragraphs from the internet
Students might not follow instructions properly and mess the whole document by chaging font or working on different pages from theirs

9. Sample_Task1_paragraph1

10. Sample_Task1_paragraph2

11. “I challenged my students to write each one two paragraphs since I want them to learn about a Glocal culture, I want them to value the things we have in our country but in the same way, I want them to learn about culture around the world. Making them to write about a different food/dish, they had to read and investigate much more”.