Ohio University Chillicothe Technology-Rich
Creative Writing Learning Community

This learning community will be engaged in exploring, evaluating, and applying web-based collaborative writing tools, reading widely regarding effective writing assessment, and exploring Open Course Ware and pertinent web sites in an effort to enhance peer response and foster a strong sense of community and engagement in online creative writing classes for middle-childhood education majors.   The intent of the community is to carry this learning forward and apply our knowledge to all writing classes at Ohio University Chillicothe and, through workshops and in-service days, with middle-school and high school teachers throughout Ross County.  Assessment will be multi-faceted and ongoing.

New learning goals include enhanced peer response to poems, stories, and nonfiction  so that students more actively engage in an online workshop that enables them to analyze, interpret, and evaluate each other’s writing throughout the quarter in a detailed, meaningful fashion. Community members will become comfortable and familiar with the Web 2.0 tools in Blackboard by engaging in group projects themselves throughout the period of the grant. 

Resources will include development of online demonstrations of the new tools (Live Thread, Blackboard, Wikis, Blogs, Social Networking, etc.) used for collaboration.

Portraits of Practice will be available later in the year.

OLN Southeast Regional Center at Shawnee State University in Partnership with the Teaching and Learning Center 940 Second St., Portsmouth, OH 45662 (740) 351-3334