90-Minute Recording of an Audio Online Seminar • Originally Broadcast October 21, 2009 • $219

Success in the teaching of writing rests in part on at least three key factors: Showing students the necessary skills and techniques for improving their writing, encouraging them to take ownership of their growth as writers, and cultivating a healthy rapport between teachers and students that supports individual writing growth.

What can go a long way toward achieving success in the teaching of writing is using instructional technology that supports each of these factors. If you would like to learn more about available instructional technologies for teaching writing effectively as well as some of the latest research findings related to this, you will definitely want to purchase this audio online seminar.

Led by Dr. William Beasley and Dr. Brian Harper, Providing Feedback in a Technology-Mediated Environment presents insights and methods to enable you to help students improve their writing, encourage them to take ownership of their development as writers, and build teacher-student rapport to help support and enrich learning.

Dr. Beasley is the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Cleveland State University, where he assists other faculty in improving their teaching skills. A former public school teacher, he also teaches educational technology courses, and he coordinated the Educational Technology graduate program at Cleveland State from 1989 to 2005. His publications and conference presentations focus on issues related to distance education, both in web-based and interactive video distance learning formats.

Dr. Harper is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Foundations at Cleveland State University. A former classroom teacher, he completed his doctoral work in Educational Psychology at The Ohio State University. His research interests include African American racial identity development and motivational psychology, particularly as it applies to students in urban settings. His current work focuses on African American students and the factors that promote or inhibit academic self-regulation.

Following this insightful, content-rich seminar, you will:
• Have an opportunity to review the full range of feedback options available in Microsoft Word, including audio possibilities.
• Be able to base decisions for providing student feedback on research data grounded in theory.
• Become more aware of the interaction between different forms of feedback and commonly used hardware and software.
• Understand the distinction between feedback provided internal to student work and feedback provided external to student work.
• Be able to compose and deliver feedback on student written work that is appropriate to specific instructional goals.

In addition, you’ll learn about the results of preliminary research comparing written and audio feedback regarding students’ perceptions of the learning climate they experienced, and you’ll receive a series of “how to” handouts about specific technologies covered.

What’s more, you’ll be able to follow along with the presenters during the presentation in providing technology-mediated feedback an on actual student writing project to learn how the three phases of feedback-preparation, creation and reflection-encourage students to improve their communication skills. In short, if you’re interested in learning how to use technology more effectively in providing feedback to students to improve their writing skills, this seminar is an ideal opportunity.

Take advantage of the single, low fee and invite others to watch with you to maximize your investment!
This seminar is just $219 on CD, which allows you to project it in a classroom or conference facility and invite others from your campus to attend-all for the same low price. As a result, it’s a terrific way to share ideas and approaches on how to evaluate different technologies and strategies for improving student writing, increasing student accountability about writing, and strengthening rapport between teachers and students to better support learning.

What’s more, by purchasing this seminar you can make your budget dollars work harder for you. This is especially true when you compare the costs of lodging, transportation and other expenses in attending an off-site seminar (not to mention the time involved in getting budget approval and completing expense reports afterward).

Who should attend:
• Faculty
• Administrators
• Tutors/Writing Specialists

Featured Higher Education Presenters:

William Beasley, Ed.D.

Brian E. Harper, Ph.D.

Available in CD or print transcript format. Presenter's handouts are included as a PDF on CDs and in hard copy with transcript purchases. CD orders generally ship within three to five business days following the live seminar date. Print transcripts (and CD/transcript binder sets) require additional time for publishing and processing and will be shipped approximately three weeks after the live program is held.

90-Minute Recording of an Audio Online Seminar • Originally Broadcast October 21, 2009 • $219

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