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Improving Writing Skills through Scripting a Science Podcast for Non-Expert Audiences
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Sotério, Carolina; Queiroz, Salete Linhares – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2023
In this article, we describe and analyze the experience of undergraduate chemistry students who scripted episodes of a science podcast for non-expert audiences. This practice aimed to improve public communication of science and technology, often suppressed throughout science careers but relevant for developing critical thinking. In particular, the…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Improvement, Scripts, Undergraduate Students
Comparing Effects of Two Collaboration Scripts on Learning Activities for Wiki-Based Environments
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Heimbuch, Sven; Ollesch, Lisa; Bodemer, Daniel – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2018
Knowledge construction assignments with wikis can be found in various educational settings. However, wiki environments are not inevitably suited to help learning and thus more guidance could be useful. In this study, we investigated the effects of two collaboration scripts with different aims during a two-week period of knowledge construction with…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Scripts, Editing, Web Sites
Scripting as a Pedagogical Method to Guide Collaborative Writing: University Students' Reflections
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Heinonen, Kirsi; De Grez, Nore; Hämäläinen, Raija; De Wever, Bram; van der Meijs, Sophie – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2020
A collaboration script is a set of instructions used to improve collaborative learning among students in technology-enhanced environments. Previously, university students' perspective has been under-represented in the study on collaboration scripts. In this article, we focus on understanding students' experiences in a scripted collaborative…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students
Intervening with Near-Future Possible L2 Selves: EFL Students as Peer-to-Peer Motivating Agents during Exploratory Practice
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Machin, Elizabeth – Language Teaching Research, 2023
The present study offers insights on understanding motivation to learn a second language (L2) through implementation of the Exploratory Practice principles within the context of English as a foreign language at a university in Spain, and on discovering opportunities to enhance this. The account sits within the domain of the possible selves and the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Peer Relationship, Learning Motivation, Teaching Methods
Implicating Practice: Engaged Scholarship through Co-Creative Media
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Alexandra, Darcy – Digital Education and Learning, 2017
This chapter centres co-creative scriptwriting and the intellectual and aesthetic labour of two research practitioners as a means to explore digital storytelling as a form of engaged scholarship. It draws from research with asylum seekers and refugees in Ireland that advanced a longitudinal (four years) and inquiry-based approach to digital…
Descriptors: Refugees, Story Telling, Longitudinal Studies, Inquiry
Improving Revision in Wiki-Based Writing: Coordination Pays Off
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Wichmann, Astrid; Rummel, Nikol – Computers & Education, 2013
Wiki-based writing possesses a great deal of educational potential, yet students face difficulties while writing a shared document. Revising a shared document, in particular, seems to be a demanding activity for students. This study investigated whether collaboration scripts can help to improve students' revision activities and overall text…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Scripts, Web 2.0 Technologies, Educational Technology