fortune regained: online collaborative writing tools
DESCRIPTION
Presented at College English Association 2011 Conference. Identifies current research needs in composition and uses McMillan's Cyber-Interactivity and Johnson's User-Centered Design to suggest that technologies like Google Wave can help composition students, teachers, and researchers.TRANSCRIPT
Christopher R. Friend | UCF | CEA2011
Lost Fortune: Learning from the Downfall of Google WaveChristopher R. Friend
Texts & Technology PhD student
University of Central Florida
1
Christopher R. Friend | UCF | CEA2011
Christopher R. Friend
Texts & Technology PhD student
University of Central Florida
1
Fortune Regained: Online Collaborative Writing Tools
Christopher R. Friend | UCF | CEA2011
Composition Classes
2
}Image: Wikimedia Commons
Christopher R. Friend | UCF | CEA2011
Composition Classes
2
} Our students do stuff.
Image: Wikimedia Commons
Christopher R. Friend | UCF | CEA2011
Our Pedagogical Focus
3
Image: AMagill on Flickr, Creative Commons
Christopher R. Friend | UCF | CEA2011
Traditional Comp. Research
4
Image: courtesy Microsoft, Public Domain
Christopher R. Friend | UCF | CEA2011
Traditional Writers
5
Image: courtesy Microsoft, Public Domain
Christopher R. Friend | UCF | CEA2011
Modern Writers
6
Image: courtesy Microsoft, Public Domain
Christopher R. Friend | UCF | CEA2011
Publishing
Revising
Writing
The Classic Writing Process(Clark)
7
Prewriting
Christopher R. Friend | UCF | CEA2011
Cyber-Interactivity(McMillan)
8
Direction of Communication
Feedback
One-Way Two-Way
Level of Receiver Control
Mutual Discourse
Monologue Responsive Dialogue
Low
High
(student presentations) (collaborative learning)
(lectures) (conversation)
S R
S R
P P
S R
Christopher R. Friend | UCF | CEA2011 9
Interface
Artifact/System
Designer(s)ʼ/Artisan(s)ʼ
Image
User(s)ʼ SituationUser
Interface
Text (or other artifact)
Creator(s)ʼImage
Educational ProgramStudent
Student-Centered Design(Adapted from Johnson)
Christopher R. Friend | UCF | CEA2011
One Solution
10
Christopher R. Friend | UCF | CEA2011
The Sales Pitch
12
See inside the “black box”
Watch the process happen
Allow Cyber-Interactivity
Focus on the Student
Christopher R. Friend | UCF | CEA2011
The Catch
Spring 2009: GW is here
Summer 2010: GW is dying
Fall 2010: Gone this year.
November 2010: Just kidding. Stay tuned.
December 2010: Will be open-source as Apache Wave.
13
2010
Dec
Christopher R. Friend | UCF | CEA2011
New Possibilities
14
Christopher R. Friend | UCF | CEA2011
Thank you.
15
Christopher R. Friend
University of Central Florida