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The UMOHS Writing Center

The UMOHS Writing Center. Brent Goldman, Ph.D. Headmaster. Howard Liebman, Ph.D. Principal. Edie LeBas, M.A.T. Writing Center Director. UMOHS Mission.

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The UMOHS Writing Center

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  1. The UMOHS Writing Center Brent Goldman, Ph.D. Headmaster Howard Liebman, Ph.D. Principal Edie LeBas, M.A.T. Writing Center Director

  2. UMOHS Mission The University of Miami Online High School is committed to providing quality online instruction in a technologically rich & supportive online environment.

  3. UMOHS Writing Center Mission The UMOHS Writing Center supports teachers and students in reading and writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) projects by providing onlinediscussions about reading and an online writing lab(OWL).

  4. What is an OWL? • The OWL (online writing lab) is an extension of the college or university bricks-and-mortar campus writing center. • Some OWLs provide interactive tutorials and limited email help. • Some OWLs use email for full support of students’ writing.

  5. International Writing Center Association • http://writingcenters.org • Resource for all writing centers, whether online or bricks and mortar. • Membership is on an individual basis. • Workshops and conferences provide the pedagogy for training writing tutors • Pedagogy that enables writers to make their own decisions about writing

  6. THE UMOHS OWL • The UMOHS OWL is different from email-based OWLs in that it uses the asynchronous annotative, interactive discussion features of HyLighter to provide a process for review and revision.

  7. What is the purpose of the UMOHS OWL? • Help students become insightful readers and fluent writers. • Guide students to write on task and on topic. • Enable students to write about what they read and respond to what others write. • Provide students practice in identifying and understanding writing errors. • Train peer coaches to help student writers.

  8. Features of HyLighter 3.0 • Text-based, annotative discussion • Interactive and asynchronous • Comments or questions embedded in text • Mark-up and comment feature • Compare feature w/ permission matrix • Global view of discussion comments

  9. Online Writing Center Services • Text-based, annotative online discussions • Professional and staff online discussions • Online publication editing • Asynchronous club meetings • OWL for grammar, research and writing • OWL peer-coach training sessions

  10. HyLighterdiscussions for difficult texts

  11. Writing Center Services The Table View provides a global view of the discussion

  12. HyLighterdiscussions using visuals

  13. Writing Center Services Publication editing using peer review

  14. Professional / staff discussions Class projects and discussions

  15. Writing Center Services Online asynchronous club meetings

  16. Writing Center Services Peer-Coach Training

  17. Writing Center Services Trained OWL coaches help students with … • brainstorming a topic • researching a topic • writing a thesis statement • organizing ideas and evidence • using evidence to support a claim • paraphrasing quoted material • citing sources correctly • writing introductory and concluding paragraphs • writing lab reports for science and math • designing and writing PowerPoint presentations • writing MLA research papers • writing resumes and college application letters

  18. Writing Center Services Peer Coaches • When?Peer coaches can choose which weeks/days fit their schedules best. (Flexible!) • Where?Access  to HyLighter is 24/7 to fit each peer coach's place of residence as well as his/her travel and study times. (No travel!) • How?The peer coach provides feedback to a student's writing and records observations about each session. (Service oriented!)

  19. Writing Center Services Peer Coaches • Who?Students recommended by their teachers can train to become peer writing coaches (IWCA model). • Why?Peer writing coaches receive community service hours, enhance their academic portfoliosfor college and learn more about themselves as writers.  • What?Training sessions in HyLighter will model to each peer coach how to guide students to review and revise their own writing.(Coaches do NOT write for the students!)

  20. How does the OWL work? • Teacher completes a form to refer student. • Student receives a user name and password for his/her own personal HyLighter account.  • The facilitator uploads form and writing project to HyLighter for review by a peer coach.  • The peer coach responds to the student's work. • On the second visit, the student revises/edits his/her first draft inside of HyLighter for review by coach.

  21. For more information… • University of Miami Online High School http://www.umohs.org • UMOHS Writing Center elebas@umohs.org • HyLighter Interactive AnnotationDavid LeBow, Ph.D, President dglebow@comcast.net

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