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Breaking Tradition: A Faculty- Developed Open Writing Resource at VCU Bonnie Boaz, Meriah Crawford, Jessica Gordon, Andrew Marx, Hillary Miller November 2, 2016
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Breaking Tradition: A Faculty-Developed Open Writing Resource at VCU
Bonnie Boaz, Meriah Crawford, Jessica Gordon, Andrew Marx, Hillary Miller
November 2, 2016
Jessica B Gordon
Thanks for outlining this slideshow Hillary! Should we add a link to the site below the title or the authors?
Hillary Miller
Probably on the page where we want to switch to the site. Will that be at the very end?
Jessica B Gordon
I saw the link on Meriah's page near the end, but I would vote to have it here too. If this slideshow is going to be out on on the internet from here on out, a link at the start would be helpful to viewers and to the site.
Hillary Miller
Sounds good! Will this be posted on the conference site, or are we planning to post elsewhere? Either way, all images will need to be openly licensed or used under fair use, so anything decorative will have to be removed before we post.
History of Project
● Origins: OER Conference, 2015 in Washington D.C.
● Call for faculty participation
● Deciding on the Citation Guide
● Applying for VCU’s Quest Grant and reviewing other opportunities for funding
OER Resources by Markus Büsges is licensed under CC by 4.0
Jessica B Gordon
Seems important to cite media used in this slideshow since we are presenting at OER Conference. I used Ideal Attribution style for CC.
VCU’s Department of Focused Inquiry - Background and PracticesFocused Inquiry —UNIV 111 and 112—began with a pilot year in 2006-2007 with the advent of University College (UC)
Conceived as a course to supplant English Composition and provide foundational instruction in additional skill areasFocus on developing core skills/competenciesShared CurriculumHeavy emphasis on active learning pedagogyThematicSpiral curriculum
Courses became required of VCU first-year students as part of Core Curriculum in 2007-2008Focused Inquiry was still just a program, not a full-fledged departmentYear-long courseProgram overseen by UC administratorsFI curriculum developed and maintained by appointed coordinators and committeesInterdisciplinary faculty with shared interests in SoTL
Several years later ENGL 200 (Research Writing) moved to UC, becoming UNIV 200Became the second-year course in the new 3-course sequence
FI Program finally became a full-fledged department several years ago
VCU’s Department of Focused Inquiry - Background and Practices
Textbook use in the FI Program/Department
All textbooks adopted course-wide (for all sections) in UNIV 111/112/200.
For UNIV 111/112 this has included:
Reader (combination of thematic material and skill-centric content)
Critical thinking handbook (early years)
Summer and Winter books
Composition Handbook - A Writer’s Reference
Current OER project focused on replacing this
UNIV 200:
Textbooks/Readers on Research & Writing
A Writer’s Reference
Over the Years
Hacker & Sommers’ A Writer’s Reference
Data Supported Anecdotal Evidence
Hillary Miller
Is this a screenshot from the survey results? Is it possible to get a more clear version of the image? It looks just a little blurry now, and I'm worried it'll be difficult to read on a much larger screen when we present.
Bonnie Boaz
Hillary, it is a screen shot. Is there a way to import the image directly from Google form responses to Google slides? When I Googled this I found there is no direct way to move data or responses to slides. There's something called Google Apps Script. Know anything about it?
Hillary Miller
No, I don't. Is there any way to download individual images from the form responses? Or (and this is probably a long shot) if you enlarge the Google form responses to the full size of your screen (using ctrl +) before you screenshot them, does that increase the resolution? If not, I'm not sure it's worth trying to create new charts for the data, so we can just go with this.
Data Supported Need for OER Citation Guide
Strong Faculty Support for an OER Initiative
Partnering with the Library
Why partner with the library?Who within the library is a potential partner?What support can the library provide?
Design Meriah L. Crawford
Clever name pending:
Minimize big blobs of text (accordions)Mobile friendlyWhite space/thoughtful typographyConsistency
Photo by Anna. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Maintenance Concerns
Avoid code/use Wordpress
Issue and question support?
Big updates (MLA 8)
It’s Hard
SO hard
Not enough time
Seems easy
⇒ Result: Fame and Fortune!
Don’t reinvent the wheelPhoto by Pedro Szekely (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
