Within the shared folder, each student had their own personal folder for all their writing. We also worked in one document together to generate questions after having read a text, for example. Often, we opened a document together to go over the content as a group, adding information or comments in the margins during the discussion. I created a shared folder in Google Docs for all written work. While connected through Hangouts, we worked in Google Docs and on the course site. When a connection was poor, a student would occasionally use sound only. Only one student experienced problems with the connection, mostly because the summer house on a Maine island where she was staying did not have a strong wifi signal, but otherwise we did not have a lot of issues meeting online. I chose to use Google Hangouts for this synchronous component of the course, mostly because it was free, easy to use for students, and did not require any software installation, only a Google account. The online component also has to “meet” daily, but for two hours. The Summer Writing Program takes three weeks, and the F2F classes meet Mondays through Thursdays for four hours each day. We spend a lot of time taking students through all the stages of writing, from close reading and asking questions about a text to drafting and revising. The program exposes students to college level reading and writing, and aims to open up the connection between reading, writing, and thinking so students become more confident readers of challenging texts and learn to approach writing as a process of exploration, investigation, and revision. Students in this program are mostly juniors and seniors in high schools from across the US, both private and public, although sometimes the program admits a high school sophomore or freshman college student. This past summer (2016) I designed the online section for The Cooper Union’s Summer Writing Program.
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