Ioannis Spantidakis

Ioannis Spantidakis is a Professor at the School of Primary Education of University of Crete. His scientific and academic interest focuses on the subjects of: Psychology of writing, Diagnosis – Dealing and Assessment of learning difficulties of writing, Design-development and evaluation of learning environments of writing, Education and edification of teachers, Critical literacy, Multiliteracy, Multimodality, Development and Exercise of metacognitive writing and reading skills, Web design of socio-cognitive environment of writing learning. Individually or in collaboration with others he has published papers, surveys and studies regarding the learning and teaching process of writing, the design, implementation and evaluation of learning environments with the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), the “Ideokataskeves” software, the book “ Socio-cognitive multimedia environments of learning the writing process, the book “ Online learning environments of writing for Greeks living abroad”, the book “ Writing, teaching and learning”, and the book “ Guide of differentiated teaching of Greek as a second / foreign language and elements of history and culture”. Moreover, he has participated in the scientific team of the Laboratory of Intercultural and Migration Studies (EDIAMME) of the School of Primary Education of the University of Crete as director of design and development and author of the online environment ” E-Learning Portal ” ( ) for the teaching of Greek language as second and as foreign language as well as of the following educational software: “I speak and write Greek”, “Read-Write-Sing”, “Alfavitochora”, “As we grow up ... in the world of Greek”, “Steps to Text” “Margarita 1-7” for teaching Greek as a native, second or foreign language and finally “Istoriodromies” and “Adventures in Mythochora” for teaching Greek history and Greek Culture. He has also worked as the director of the design of the educational software: “In the Country of Lenou” addressed to pupils with learning difficulties, “I write in a simple way – I read easily” aimed at students of early elementary school years, «ECDL e-kids» targeting at familiarization and assessment of students with the use of multimedia. He has also participated in the educational planning team of the Electronic Learning Environment for teaching Albanian and Russian as mother language for students who live in Greece “Dragon’s 7 Keys” ( 7-keys-of-dragon).

Publications

Anxiety and the Production of Writing
Anxiety and the Production of Writing
Irini Gaki, Eleni Vasilaki, Ioannis Spantidakis. © 2023. 8 pages.
The production of writing is an intentional, dynamic, and difficult linguistic, cognitive, social, and emotional problem-solving process that requires students to orchestrate...