Technology-Rich Creative Writing Learning Community

1. Technology-Rich Creative Writing Learning Community Ohio University - Chillicothe

2. Objectives • Explore and evaluate web-based collaborative writing tools – Web 2.0 • Online creative writing class for middle-childhood education majors • ENG 361 Creative Writing Fiction • ENG 362 Creative Writing Poetry • ENG 363 Creative Writing Nonfiction

3. Goals • Enhance peer response • Foster a strong sense of community • Increase student engagement • Expand to all writing classes at OUC • Writing Center – student tutors • Offer to middle and high school teachers • Workshops and in-service

4. Service-Learning Partnership • Middle childhood education majors • 7th grade language arts students • Mentor utilizing blogs for reflection • Helped prepare students for the 7th grade Ohio Literacy Text Standard Benchmarks • Expand further using editing tools in addition to blogs

5. Greater flexibility to meet the demands and expectations of our “New Traditionals”

6. Student Learning • Enhanced peer response: analyze, interpret and evaluate in a detailed, meaningful fashion • Use Web 2.0 tools in their own future classrooms

7. Collaboration • Technology-Rich Campus Task Force • Library Staff – links and guidance to pertinent sites supporting course objectives and research needs • Writing Center tutors • Support research and writing needs: Fully integrate the research and writing processes

8. Assessment • Student surveys – usefulness of tools • Enhanced interactive projects • Peer responses – compared to previous quarters without technology tools

9. Collaborative Writing Tools to be Explored • QuickTopic • Conventi • Gobby • Ace • ThinkFree • Zoho Writer • Writeboard • Google Docs • Near-Time • Socialtext

10. Already Implemented • Freecorder • Attach audio comments directly to document • Blackboard 7.3 • More tools included