Hi everyone.
Hope you are not too stressed out by teaching online until the rest of the semester, by the news reports, the closings, and by our new stay-at-home lifestyle.
Next blog assignment: Because the week after break, pre-corona threat, we were going to present in person on our Writing Lab Newsletter articles, I figured we could accomplish that task on the blog, but please post by Monday 3/30 so we have time to comment on one another's posts. Please introduce your post by telling us the title of the article, the names of the authors and their college affiliations, and what issue of WLN it is from.
The purpose of this assignment is to acquaint you with an accessible writing center publication in which you might consider publishing. It's also to learn about what other writing centers are doing and what other writing center people are thinking about.
After everyone writes a couple of paragraphs summarizing, analyzing and/or critiquing, and then applying their article (to our writing center work, f2f and now online), please respond to at least 3 of your colleagues' main posts and/or to colleagues' responses. I'll respond to everyone.
If the WLN copy I randomly passed out to you doesn't have an article that interests you or that you consider substantial enough, you can find all but the most recent issues online at: https://wlnjournal.org/archives.php
Also, feel free to discuss your new WC Online synchronous tutoring experiences from Monday and Tuesday, March 30 and 31. If you have any problems (no shows, technology issues), please let Deirdre and me right away know by email even during the conference.
For the following week: For the second week after the 2-week break we'll do the same thing and use the blog. By class time at 3:30 on April 7, please post your response to the syllabus question about the advantages and disadvantages of the non-fiction case study (i.e. the one of Lorraine and Brian) vs. the more academic case studies (the ones of Fei and Lin you read earlier--the Fei article is on the ICON site). Then each one of you, including me, will also respond to three of the main postings or responses to them.
Also, for the April 7 blog. feel free to discuss your asynchronous online tutoring experience. (remember each of you needs to choose and respond to one draft) as well as your synchronous ones. You might compare them. With which system are you more comfortable?
Here are the directions again for Asynchronous: To access the system, click on the Online Feedback button of the WC website, and fill out your profile, and let us know you've done so, so we can "promote" you from student to tutor. Then you'll have access to the queue of drafts; claim one, save it to your desk top to work on it (a commenting letter on higher order concerns and the student's concerns, plus marginal feedback, no track changes), and send it back to the student with a note in the system's text box, e.g. Dear ____, Thanks for submitting to online tutoring. Please find your draft with my feedback in the linked file.
Case Studies: I scheduled your now-to-be written case studies of your writing center students, or if you don't want to do a case study, your resource reports from Writing Center Journal or another resource you let me know about beforehand.
The Rest of the Semester: If posting and responding is going well, if participation is good, we'll just blog our way through to the end of the semester, although if we need to, we can use the WC online program to meet virtually. Please let me know by email if you'd rather be meeting in person vs. depending on the blog.
I'll also post that syllabus and the readings to our ICON site.
Final papers and Web Site Analyses: Cancelled.
Thanks for your patience! Stay well!
Carol
Hope you are not too stressed out by teaching online until the rest of the semester, by the news reports, the closings, and by our new stay-at-home lifestyle.
Next blog assignment: Because the week after break, pre-corona threat, we were going to present in person on our Writing Lab Newsletter articles, I figured we could accomplish that task on the blog, but please post by Monday 3/30 so we have time to comment on one another's posts. Please introduce your post by telling us the title of the article, the names of the authors and their college affiliations, and what issue of WLN it is from.
The purpose of this assignment is to acquaint you with an accessible writing center publication in which you might consider publishing. It's also to learn about what other writing centers are doing and what other writing center people are thinking about.
After everyone writes a couple of paragraphs summarizing, analyzing and/or critiquing, and then applying their article (to our writing center work, f2f and now online), please respond to at least 3 of your colleagues' main posts and/or to colleagues' responses. I'll respond to everyone.
If the WLN copy I randomly passed out to you doesn't have an article that interests you or that you consider substantial enough, you can find all but the most recent issues online at: https://wlnjournal.org/archives.php
Also, feel free to discuss your new WC Online synchronous tutoring experiences from Monday and Tuesday, March 30 and 31. If you have any problems (no shows, technology issues), please let Deirdre and me right away know by email even during the conference.
For the following week: For the second week after the 2-week break we'll do the same thing and use the blog. By class time at 3:30 on April 7, please post your response to the syllabus question about the advantages and disadvantages of the non-fiction case study (i.e. the one of Lorraine and Brian) vs. the more academic case studies (the ones of Fei and Lin you read earlier--the Fei article is on the ICON site). Then each one of you, including me, will also respond to three of the main postings or responses to them.
Also, for the April 7 blog. feel free to discuss your asynchronous online tutoring experience. (remember each of you needs to choose and respond to one draft) as well as your synchronous ones. You might compare them. With which system are you more comfortable?
Here are the directions again for Asynchronous: To access the system, click on the Online Feedback button of the WC website, and fill out your profile, and let us know you've done so, so we can "promote" you from student to tutor. Then you'll have access to the queue of drafts; claim one, save it to your desk top to work on it (a commenting letter on higher order concerns and the student's concerns, plus marginal feedback, no track changes), and send it back to the student with a note in the system's text box, e.g. Dear ____, Thanks for submitting to online tutoring. Please find your draft with my feedback in the linked file.
Case Studies: I scheduled your now-to-be written case studies of your writing center students, or if you don't want to do a case study, your resource reports from Writing Center Journal or another resource you let me know about beforehand.
The Rest of the Semester: If posting and responding is going well, if participation is good, we'll just blog our way through to the end of the semester, although if we need to, we can use the WC online program to meet virtually. Please let me know by email if you'd rather be meeting in person vs. depending on the blog.
I'll also post that syllabus and the readings to our ICON site.
Final papers and Web Site Analyses: Cancelled.
Thanks for your patience! Stay well!
Carol
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