Fortune Regained: Online Collaborative Writing Tools

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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.

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Christopher R. Friend | UCF | CEA2011

Lost Fortune: Learning from the Downfall of Google WaveChristopher R. Friend

Texts & Technology PhD student

University of Central Florida

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Texts & Technology PhD student

University of Central Florida

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Fortune Regained: Online Collaborative Writing Tools

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Composition Classes

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Composition Classes

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} Our students do stuff.

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Our Pedagogical Focus

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Traditional Comp. Research

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Traditional Writers

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Modern Writers

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Publishing

Revising

Writing

The Classic Writing Process(Clark)

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Prewriting

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Cyber-Interactivity(McMillan)

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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)

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P P

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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)

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One Solution

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The Sales Pitch

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See inside the “black box”

Watch the process happen

Allow Cyber-Interactivity

Focus on the Student

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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.

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2010

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New Possibilities

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Thank you.

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Christopher R. Friend

University of Central Florida

chrisfriend@knights.ucf.edu