Week 4 Assignments

Discussion questions: discuss one or more of the questions under “Topics.” Reply to posts commenting on your answer. Respond to / comment on at least two original posts answering two different discussion question.

Discussion Topics

• Informal or low stakes writing assignments
• Writing groups
• Collaborative writing
• AWE
• Word processing text analysis and checking tools
• Peer editing
• Marking papers / managing paper load

Activities

Hands on assignments: pick ONE of the following assignments to complete by Saturday and post to the Week 4 assignment thread.

• Take one substantial post from this or another EVO session and send it through one of the online raters/text analysis tools on the resource list.
• Form writing group with 3 other students. Exchange short writing samples. Use peer editing guidelines to review, comment and make recommendations.
• Design and write peer review guidelines or a holistic rubric for a class you teach.

The Plan: (subject to change of course)

• Upload page/s about workshop to Pages sections.
• Sort the workshop file into several pages, separate files.
• Upload resources file to Files section on group,
• Search YouTube for videos on AWE, peer editing. etc.
• Search Slide Share, WiZiQ, other for Power Points
• Schedule live session in Tapped In, WiZiQ, YM or Google Chat.