Whats with the WOW Claire Bradin Siskin Excelsior

What's with the WOW? Claire Bradin Siskin Excelsior College

ESL-WOW

Overview: • Description of project • Demonstration • Pilot project • Questions and discussion

www. esl-wow. org or www. eslwow. org or eslwow. org

Federal grant project: Funding for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education U. S. Department of Education

- online multimedia materials designed to guide non-native speakers of English through each stage of the writing process - designed for community college students and adult learners

All materials in ESL-WOW are available free of charge.

Basic design: Self-study component + Human interaction component

4 self-study modules: "Getting Ready to Write" "Developing Your Ideas" "Revising Your Work" "Editing and Polishing" + Tutorial on Plagiarism

All materials reviewed multiple times: • content reviews • educational technology reviews • usability reviews (Revisions after each review)

Demo

"Community of Writers: " Interaction with human tutors and with other students through • discussion boards • Individual writing assignments • feedback from tutors and peers

Pilot Project: blended learning

Pilot Project: online class

Pilot Project: blended learning 1 instructor + 1 “writing guide” online class 1 instructor + 3 “writing guides”

Pilot Project: Set up courses – 15 weeks each

Comment from a student: "Thank you for making this course available to me. I have certainly learned a lot and enjoyed being part of this workshop. I am also thankful for my writing guide who - in adition (sic) to the tutorials - has also proved very valuable and provided great assistance. Keep up the good work!"

More comments: "The ESL-WOW tutorials will benefit me to make my writing very perfect. " "All those tutorials are easy to understand very helpful. " "Using the ESL-WOW tutorials will help me writing better than before. "