These are the steps my class and I went through when dealing with diary writing.
1) Choosing a fictional, historical, cartoon or legendary character.
2) Creating Fakebook profiles and writing diary entries.
Some of them didn't use the web tool and drew their own profiles on paper.
Here are some samples from students' works.
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3) Editing the writing and getting feedback from the teacher
4) Printing the profiles
5) "Visiting" each other's profiles and commenting on them using post-it notes.
Students, in their character's shoes, could leave a public message on the wall, that everyone could read and comment, or write a private "message" ( a folded post-it ) that only the owner of the profile could open and read.
This activity, which took us 3 class hours , let the students have a lot of practice at asking questions, reading and writing. And I especially liked the fact that both technology and paper proved to be effective tools and worked together to reach the teaching aim.
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