Innovative Writing Instruction: "Does My iMovie Suck?"--Assessing Teacher Candidates' Digital Composition Processes

Autor/in	Staples, Jeanine
Titel	Innovative Writing Instruction: "Does My iMovie Suck?"--Assessing Teacher Candidates' Digital Composition Processes
Quelle	In: English Journal, 99 (2010) 5, S.95-99 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-8274
Schlagwörter	Student Teachers; Writing (Composition); Writing Processes; Media Literacy; Teacher Educators; Teaching Methods; Scoring Rubrics; Writing Instruction; Preservice Teachers; College English; Higher Education; Web Sites; Films; Evaluation; Pennsylvania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehramtsstudent; Lehramtsstudentin; Referendar; Referendarin; Schreibübung; Media skills; Medie competence; Medienkompetenz; Teacher education; Education; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Scoring formulas; Auswertungsbogen; Schreibunterricht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Web-Design; Film; Evaluierung
Abstract	Considering ways to assess digital compositions and their results (i.e., media products) is an important part of the author's pedagogical practice as a teacher educator. Discovering ways to evaluate the quality, effectiveness, and efficacy of these compositions and products presents an important aspect of responsive, critical instruction. Yet this practice is somewhat complicated because media products take on a number of different forms and functions, ranging from websites to podcasts. By teaching Media Literacy in the Classroom over time, the author has designed an approach to assessing digital compositions and the media products that emerge from them. To share this approach, the author first presents some guiding questions she discusses with student teachers in her course. These questions help her to support students' composition with critical lenses and thoughtful action. They center several "big concepts" in media, literacy, and teaching/learning. Second, she shares her general rubric for examining these texts. Finally, she presents ideas for thinking about assessing digital compositions and the importance of this practice in student teachers' understanding of "new" writing. (Contains 2 figures.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10