 Hello everyone and welcome to our next exciting session. I'm Lynne Taylor and I'm lucky enough to be chairing this session and in a minute I'm going to be delighted to introduce Patricia Dennis and she's going to tell us all about adventures of the writing process, digitising the writing process. This is a 20-minute presentation so Patricia's going to present for about 15 minutes and we'll have time to address your comments and the questions you've got for her. So please can you pop any questions or comments you've got in the chat comments and we'll get around to as many of those as we can at the end so without further ado Patricia it's over to you take it away. Alrighty good morning everyone well my side is 6 50 so um good morning if for anyone else if you're an afternoon good afternoon. Today I will be presenting my research and designing of TAWP which stands for the Adventures of the Writing Process. A link will be shared of the slide so that you all have access to go through the presentation as you feel free and let's get started. So I'm gonna share my screen all right and we're heading off to the presentation. So I'm going to actually add caption just you know for um accessibility purposes so you guys can see what I'm saying and let's get started. All right so again good morning and welcome to the Adventures of the Writing Process. My name is Patricia Dennis and I will be giving you guys basically an overview of my process and how OER played a role in me designing and creating this online learning tool for students and educators more particularly young students as in second third and fourth grade. So again welcome please spend like about two minutes you know so you can loosen up the chin chin um in the chat introducing yourself your location if you if you would like and one fun fact about you all also as you all do this I'll be inserting the link to my presentation in the chat or um more so my chair is going to be so I'll answer the question real quick myself again my name is Patricia Dennis I am located in Parsippany New Jersey but I am actually from um North New Jersey and a fun fact about me I besides being an educator I am also an artist I work with different mediums of art between traditional and digital so that's a little um fun little spiel about me so let's jump right into it so research overview of TAWP again TAWP is an acronym for the Adventures of the Writing Process which is compromise of e-learning and web quest websites that is designed to educate both students and instructors on the writing process so the inspiration of this of TAWP came about in my two years of observation observation within a second grade ELA classroom if any of you are not familiar with or are familiar with the organization that I did my work with students in the ELA classroom was called it's called AmeriCorps again um AmeriCorps and when we start well when I start uh giving you guys like kind of more feedback on what I do I'll give you guys a little more breakdown of what AmeriCorps is but in that role I acted as like academic support for these students and I was able to get a real i version of this phenomenon that appeared with in the students and it wasn't more so the constructing of sentences or spelling or punctuation but the actual functionality of going through their writing and they struggle so much and I would have students cry so with that I realized that I wanted to go for my masters to kind of tackle this problem and sure enough it brought me to the writing process so TAWP was created to educate and give guidance on the writing process the three methods methodologies that were used in and conducting the research and develop development of TAWP is the writing process theory which you um I'm going to talk about a little more and give you guys direction of where you can find more information on that reflect the blogging and website designing so the work the role of WordPress domains and other tools and research reflecting designing of course my overall research is about the writing process but OER and um other kind of creative and educational tools played a major role in both designing the um designing the sites and reflective learning so reflective collaborative learning WordPress domains host instruments for creating and using TAWP as a service and connecting research and reflective learning through blog posts this open approach in the master theory thesis writing course that I took in the fall of 2020 supported the research development within reviews from fellow classmates the updated research creation of TAWP blogs were shared from the course instructor Dr. Mia Zamora which I'm going to get into a little more WordPress domain with the intent to create open and collaborative resources on the open web so all right the first domain so this domain which um here you can access it and click on it and see the like the actual live site of it is reflective in the sense of every week we were so we were tasked to submit progresses on that we made through our um research so here in these images are just what I use in my blog headers for every week I did my design and I also gave snippets of a little bit of what I talked about for each week um right here I have presented week one week six and week 13 which again um is hyperlinked on the header and you could go check the blogs out more in detail and this helped in me producing my work and being constant and consistent with um what I'm developing all right the second domain which is uh where all the artifacts of TAWP is located so in this domain again you can click on the header and it's hyperlink it shows um from my research and methodologies the overall um 17 page research overview paper the learning science literature review review all the fun stuff that makes TAWP what it is from the end product to how it's made it's all hosted on the site which you have access to view so last but not least the third domain where we um where the development of math the master thesis actually comes into display and that reflective learning so here I have on picture are just snippets of Dr. Mia Zamora's wordpress which she uses in this thesis class and amongst other classes she teach to act as an open reflective learning on the open web so Dr. Zamora's wordpress the intent to create open and collaborative resources on the open web she also uses twitter which her twitter handle is at me as a more pd serves as communication for the posting of the reflective blogs for both my classmates and I using the hashtag unbound ec which she kind of um mentioned that in her presentation yesterday and thesis writing to share the coursework with other students and professional globally so it's been really interesting to um post my information on twitter which I'm going to have my twitter handle at the end of the presentation on um the open web of twitter because I follow different um ed tech and OER um accounts and they give really really interesting feedback I actually had um an account from um grounded theory follow me and give um their feedback on what they think about my work all right so the other tools that play the major role in developing twp so google sites and google slides were really really useful especially because um user security and you know you can um restrict certain access to what you want to um present to the open web or to a certain audience and I was able to make a user friendly mock version of um twp both the instructive version the student version and um the case study which I'm going to talk about later on the presentation and google slides also acted as kind of um note taking for students and or how I presented my information canva is what I used to design all the lovely images you'll be seeing on um twp sites canva really user friendly it creates really engaging um imagery and also I was able to add in my fun little bit mojita um again the adventure of the writing process I want it to stick to that theme of being engaging and not so strictly just academic because my target audience are younger students and educators prezi acted as the presentation medium for um all my twp content and definitely uh I like the interface of it because it's interactive it has that in and out motion and again keeping in mind my users and the people and the per person or people or educators who are going to be presenting it and last but not least I utilize youtube which now I've given you all access to view the videos that I've made for my student version so alongside the prezi presentation that is strictly for the instructors to explain to students I also have youtube videos where I break down more in-depth in-depth mom what the information I want students to convey when going through twp so it was actually really fun making these youtube videos I was able to use my ipad and um my phone recording to just play around with technology and see what I come up with all right so this is where we get into the nitty gritty of the education to practice where I put twp into work so currently I have not been able to actually put it into play with younger students but I was able to test the content and its relevance to um my undergrad students at St. Elizabeth University so again the a pilot site was created for students at St. Elizabeth University to test the learning content of twp the methodology used to teach the course was the writing process theory the purpose of twp content was to inform observed students reaction while learning the writing process throughout the undergrad fall 2020 semester so it was kind of like knocking three birds out of one stone not only was I able to test the content I was also able to observe the phenomena of how my students reacted to the information alongside um conveying and displaying this information for them because regardless of the fact I do um the writing process isn't just solely for younger students and educators but I want all students that I interact with or who just wants to learn about writing and making their writing easier um accessible for them so here I have um a snippet of the homepage of this site and again you can click on the hyperlink to access it in the um header I also have um snippets of what the pre the prezi presentations will look like all right so here's a student example my student Francesca was so gracious enough um to actually give me permission last night to display your information I really wanted to displace Francesca in particular because she is one of my ESL students who truly struggles with gathering her ideas and going through it so breaking down this writing process she explains how it was easy for her to go through her writing and afford to make sense to her because she was doing it in steps in the way I broke it down explained to her through the content of TAWP if you want to go look into more detail of Francesca's um work you hyperlink here below you can see her fall 2020 and spring 2021 on website where she displays her process of each essay of the writing process so I thought it was really cool to um give her input and as I said she was gracious enough and excited to um give her feedback all right so here the next steps for TAWP and this is probably where I'm most excited at so I've recently been accepted into a PhD in education program in instructional design and technology where I plan to take the the core fundamentals of instructional design and the ideologies of open educational resources to further my further my work in a dissertation of TAWP so um this is where you know I would love to hear some of your feedback in the um comments and see what do you guys think about what I've produced so far and again this is not the final stop of TAWP honestly I think I'm still in the beginning and early stages and um in designing and finding more information and finding more activities to implement into the sites so that is pretty much my presentation I wanted to make sure I leave enough time to just answer some questions at the end thank you for attending my session below you can find my contact information for further increase the little cutie that you see up here in the moving gif is actually one of my creations and she will be the main face of the adventures of the writing process when I begin to um construct my media design from scratch and um again I have my email address my professional sites and my social medias where you can follow me or contact me if you are interested in the work that I'm going to be producing in the far and the near and far future and again you guys all have access to this presentation and thank you for listening oh thanks so much Patricia so much affirmation and and enthusiasm coming through on the comments you probably haven't even had time to look at them because of your enthusiasm so um you've got people just saying how inspired they were from London Milton Keynes Oklahoma Kathy says her daughter's completing an mfa in teaching creative writing and she was very excited by your presentation and loved your enthusiasm um Sonia says thank you for getting up and joining us so very early and actually people are saying it was a fabulous presentation I think one of the one of the hallmarks of a fabulous presentation is that there are actually dozens and dozens of questions um because it was all put across so clearly so can you tell us a little bit more about the little guy behind us because you actually mentioned about your site so talk us through what all this is about um so just a little background about me um again I am from North New Jersey it's a really a hard knock city and when I was growing up I struggled with writing um I'm actually shocked at myself I became an English major so when I became when I got older and I started going into education and the audience of students I were working with were literally just like me students in an urban area who struggled with their writing and that's my alarm to tell me that 15 minutes was up and I really struggled and as I watched these students I saw me and I was sad and I was like I've been here before and I've done and I've done this as a kid I've experienced this what can I do to make these students writing easier for them obviously writing is a process that we go through throughout life it's it's like it's in the liberal arts um hindering on the arts so like of the fun fact I share with you guys that I am an artist art with any art regardless of what it is is something you need to practice on practice practice it's a process so with that said this is why I wanted to emphasize on writing being a process and not a product in which I kind of coined that from um Dr Murray well um Professor Murray where he um initiated this ideology and his theory of making writing a process and not a product and just making it easier for our students so with that um I decided to go and dig and do more research on the writing process and then I realized we are in a new age I'm not reinventing the wheel because again the writing process between Donald Murray and um my good my lovely inspiration Peter Elbow who I hope one day I can collaborate with um as they explain this it's it's writing is a phenomenon it's something that happens differently with different people so I wanted to make a core like kind of type of resource that this phenomenon can work with so with that I decided to digitalize the writing process this is where my love for ed tech um in designing came into play and this is where my fun little um person this is actually me when I had orange dreads so this is a um kind of recreation to me her name is little um little miss P because that's what my students know me as is miss Patricia I don't like from the company is Dennis I was telling them that's my mom's name um so little miss P is going to be the basically the face for TAWP when I um move it into um kind of getting away from using other people's design and kind of putting my own interpersonalness into it because I want students to see like listen I created this from the heart for you guys and that's kind of why I wanted to wear this shirt with humankind because that's what I want this program to feel like all right so wonderful design and I'm really sorry that you decided not to change your badge to it but I really think you should do that just get in there and change your OER badge there's so much affirmation coming through Emma says it was a fabulous presentation thank you Celine said it was very very inspiring as did Ed and Kathy says you are magic thank you now one thing I must say is we've had a few problems sharing some of the the slides do I think possibly to the length of the link so our lovely out helpers here have said that the shared slides are in the discord resources channel because the link has split so it's really important everybody please go to the discord resources channel we're coming up on time now but um obviously this video will be up on youtube so you'll be able to pop comments in there and also Patricia will be around on discord to carry on the the conversation about this fascinating topic I'm so glad that all of you came to my session honestly um again very nervous but it feels good to um actually speak my research into existence and what I want to do with um OER and education yeah I mean you've really put that across and I think you know speaking your research into existence is such a is such a powerful message and we couldn't tell that you were nervous it was it was absolutely brilliant all clear and you know really really um affirmative comments in chat everyone enjoyed it so much Patricia thank you no problem thank you for having me