1. Sean Soules Wyandotte Public Schools TEACHING THE WRITING PROCESS THROUGH MOODLE MOODLE MOOT 2014

2.  Honors English 11 class and English 11  180 Juniors  ACT- Essay Writing/Informational Reading/Grammar  8 in-class essays  2 research essays In other words, I am grading:  1,800 essays  OR 9,000 paragraphs  OR 1, 989, 000 words BACKGROUND

3. SOMETHING HAD TO CHANGE FOR MY SANITY….

4. MOODLE AND ORGANIZATION

5. THE CALENDAR

6. QUICK LINKS

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8. Using Moodle Assignments, I develop a page that has the following: IN-CLASS ESSAYS: ASSIGNMENT FEATURE ACT Writing Prompt For the first four I provide a generic thesis For the first four I provide both pros and cons from PROCON.ORG Then, I replace the T-Chart with an article for information At the bottom of the page I provide the organizational structure I expect for every essay.

9. IN-CLASS ESSAYS: ASSIGNMENT FEATURE  47 Minute classes  Focus: Writing/Informational Reading/Grammar&Punctuation

10.  Students can submit their essays by:  UPLOADING their document  Typing their submission into a text box  Or Copying and Pasting into the textbox SUBMITTING ESSAYS: ASSIGNMENT FEATURE

11. GRADING: ASSIGNMENT FEATURE

12. IN-CLASS ESSAYS: ASSIGNMENT FEATURE

13. RESEARCH ESSAYS: THE BOOK FEATURE

18. RESEARCH ESSAYS: USING THE WIKI

19. EXTRAS: PLAGIARISM CHECK AND ADAPTIVE RELEASE

20. ADAPTIVE RELEASE: FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

21. EMBEDDING GOOGLE FORMS: MY ASSESSMENT

22.  Allows students to be self sufficient  Allows students to be proactive and accountable for their learning  Allows the instructor to give a variety of resources to their students in an easy-to-use, organized format  Promotes students to be engaged in the lesson  Easy to grade, easy to maintain TEACHING THE WRITING PROCESS THROUGH MOODLE