Teaching On-Demand On the Down-Low
Integrate writing practice into your daily routine while reinforcing content learning with low-stakes writing, and do it without adding more grading. Teaching On-Demand On the Down-Low powerpoint 3 Keys to Teaching Kids to Write Writing Project Professional Development Continues to Yield Gains in Student Writing Achievement K-Prep resources from KDE Previous presentation with relevant tips: High-…
Read MoreTeaching With Zombies and Caped Crusaders
Presentation for 2014 Kentucky Writing Project Fall Conference Description: Harnessing the power of comics to inspire engagement and foster reading, writing, and critical thinking across disciplines, this session will share the scaffolding and assignments used to create comic projects demonstrating college readiness for first-year college students with developmental needs. Presentation Powerpoint Relevant Blog Posts: Using…
Read MoreMaking Writers in a National Writing Project Invitational Summer Institute
Kentucky English Bulletin, Spring 2014, Vol 63, No. 2, pgs. 50-59 These findings support the idea that working in a learning community focused on writing has a long-term, positive effect on writers by decreasing writing apprehension; attending to the sources of writing self-efficacy; and fostering self-regulation. The results of this study provide support for…
Read More(BEG)ging the Question: Using Online Tools to Support Writing Feedback
With Alison Hruby and Brandie Trent Kentucky English Bulletin, Spring 2014, Vol 63, No. 2, pgs. 30-36 Effective writing feedback is an essential part of writing development. Without effective feedback, students do not engage in the “substantive self-assessment and revision” necessary to their growth and development as writers (Beach and Friedrich 231). Effective feedback is…
Read MoreJust In Time: Embedded Tutors Supporting Writing Across the Disciplines
Deanna Mascle, Morehead State University, Alvin Madden-Grider, Morehead State University, Kelly Collinsworth, Morehead State University, Megan Ison, Morehead State University, & Demi Jacques, Morehead State University This session will begin with an overview of the Morehead State University pilot embedded writing fellow program. After a reflective writing exercise, participants will discuss the unique needs of…
Read MoreBadges, Blogs, and Google+: Clicking in an Online Learning Community
When we teach online we must do more than build a course. We must select the right tools and tasks to both encourage student learning and allow effective demonstrations of it, but we must also intentionally build social capital and create a learning community. Creating a learning community that clicks, or connects, is a challenge…
Read MoreComposition as Open Environment: A Roundtable Discussion of the Writing Studio
H.32 Composition as Open Environment: A Roundtable Discussion of the Writing Studio 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM on Friday, March 21, 2014 CCCC ~ Session Flyer Grand Ballroom VIII, Third Floor Over the past two decades, the field of composition has sought out innovative strategies for delivering writing instruction to various student populations. Distance learning education, service learning,…
Read MoreCreating a Community of Writers Using Social Capital and Low-Stakes Writing
Badges, Blogs, and Google+: Social media offers many tools to support the creation of a learning community and foster the transformation to writer, but strategic planning is necessary to engage students in constructive learning. We will discuss tools and methods that can be used to create connections and foster active engagement. Abstract: One of the…
Read MoreBridging the Writing Gap: Creating Authors
This interactive session will be led by a panel of college instructors and high school teachers, representing the Morehead Writing Project. They will share strategies and best practices endorsed by the National Writing Project for teachers interested in creating writers ready for college and life. Abstract/Rationale: The National Writing Project was born in the 1970s…
Read MoreReview: Agents of Integration: Understanding Transfer as a Rhetorical Act
In Agents of Integration: Understanding Transfer as a Rhetorical Act, a new addition to the Studies in Writing and Rhetoric series by Southern Illinois University Press, Rebecca S. Nowacek addresses one of the greatest challenges facing education: how and why and when students connect and apply learning from one context to another. The issue is…
Read MoreCollaboration as Catalyst: Reinventing College Readiness at Morehead State University
Presented with Emma Perkins, Assistant Vice President for University College, at 2013 Kentucky Association for Developmental Education Conference Abstract: This interactive session will feature a discussion of the partnerships fueling new College Readiness Programs including supplemental instruction, co-requisites, and alternate pathways made possible by collaboration with the Morehead Writing Project, First Year Programs, First Year…
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