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This page is an archive of all PWR videos. You can browse the videos by scrolling through the page, or use the menu below to jump to a specific category of videos. Introductory Videos1. Overview of the Writing Program2. Overview of English 11003. Overview of English 15004. Is High School Preparing Students for College Writing? Teaching with Technology Videos1. Virtual Tour of Blackboard2. How to Create a Video Recording in Blackboard3. Teaching with Technology WorkshopPedagogy Videos1. Workshop on Creating a Syllabus2. Beyond the Red Ink3. Using Peer Review in the Classroom 4. Teaching Revision5. Workshop: Creating Assignments that Encourage Revision6. OER Workshop Recording7. Introduction to Using Student Portfolios8. Portfolio Workshop9. What Aristotle and Joshua Bell Can Teach Us About Persuasion10. Introduction to Labor-Based Grading11. Labor-Based Grading Workshop
Introductory VideosOverview of the WPU Writing Program
English 1100 (College Writing) Overview
English 1500 (Experiences in Literature) Overview
Is High School Preparing Students for College Writing?
Teaching with Technology Videos
Virtual Tour of Blackboard We work mostly with freshmen who aren’t used to the kind of expectations of college writing classes, and most of them are not used to using Blackboard. It’s really important that at the beginning of the semester, we’re clear about how the course works and what our expectations are. The more we build a visually stable and repeatable structure into the course, the more that benefits our students. One way of doing that is creating a brief video tour of your Blackboard web site and showing it to students at the beginning of the semester. This is extremely useful for an online course, but it’s also helpful if you’re doing a face-to-face course that makes extensive uses of Blackboard. This is an example of the “Video Tour” that I posted for my College Writing students at the beginning of the fall 2020 semester. Of course your course will look different depending on what areas/features of Blackboard that you use and how you use them, but this video will give you an example of what I’m talking about.
Tutorial: How to Create a Video Recording in BlackboardCreating videos and posting them to your Blackboard web site can be useful for a number of reasons, one of which is giving students a video tour of your web site at the beginning of the semester. Here’s a quick tutorial showing how to create a video using the “Collaborate Ultra” feature in Blackboard.
Teaching with Techology WorkshopThis video is a recording of the Teaching with Technology workshop that took place on 8/7/2020. In the video, several 1100 and 1500 professors discuss different ways to utilize Blackboard and Google in the classroom.
Pedagogy Videos
Workshop on Creating a SyllabusClick here for more resources on creating an ENG 1100 syllabus. Click here for more resources on creating an ENG 1500 syllabus.
Beyond the Red Ink: Teacher's Comments Through Students' EyesIn this video, Bunker Hill Community College students discuss how they perceive their professors’ writing feedback. They examine which comments are unhelpful and why, as well as offer advice as to what kind of feedback they would like to receive. This video provides great insight into the impact feedback has on students and how teachers can tailor their comments to encourage revision.
Using Peer Review in the Classroom
Teaching RevisionThis video discusses why teaching revision is so difficult, and suggests strategies to help you encourage your students to engage in deep-level revision.Workshop: Creating Assignments that Encourage RevisionThis is a recording of the workshops that took place on 11/3/2020 and 11/4/2020 about how to draft assignments that encourage students to actively revise their writing.Timestamps:0:00 – 17:05 What obstacles get in the way of revision?17:05 – 23:20 How can we change this?23:20 – 3838:40 Example of an assignment and structure for revision.38:40 – 43:00 Discussion and Questions – How do you handle group work while social distancing?
OER Workshop RecordingIn Spring, 2020, we conducted an online workshop about why we're asking faculty to use these readings and how to tie them into writing assignments. Chris Weaver and Robert Greco presented on two sample assignments that can be used in conjunction with two of the sections above: "The Writing Process" and "Rhetoric, Genre and Discourse." This is an audio/video recording of that workshop.
0:40 Workshop Introduction1:19 What is a student portfolio? 2:53 Reasons to use a portfolio in your class6:07 Options for grading portfolios12:59 How much work do portfolios create for instructors?16:02 What should you say in your syllabus?18:38 Two kinds of digital portfolios27:55 Scaffolding digital portfolios40:55 Portfolios as digital composing45:51 Question and answer session