1. Digging Deep to See the Potential:
Cultivating All Learners in the Online
Writing Classroom
Carrie Finn and Nancy Pinkston
Hawkeye Community College
Waterloo, Iowa
Connie Miller
MN West Community and Technical College
Worthington, Minnesota
TYCA Midwest - Lincoln, NE
October 11, 2012

2. Think and Ink:
What unique challenges do you
think this type of student faces in
your (writing) classes?
List as many challenges as you
can.

3. Pair and Share:
Share the challenges you
identified with your team
member.
Then work together to identify
ways in which you each try to
teach with those challenges in
mind.

4. Understanding Our Students and Their Challenges
• Basic Writers
• Non-Native English Speakers
• Non-Traditional Students
• Veterans
• Technology Challenged
• High School Students

6. Who are we?

7. Who are we?
What are our goals today?

8. Tools and Strategies I Use:
• Collaborative Writing - a poem
• Brainstorming and Notes on corkboard.me or mural.ly
• Reading Assignments to Target Specific Types of Students
• A Bit of Handholding Using remind101.com
• Peer Review

9. Digging Deep to See the Potential:
Cultivating All Learners in the Online
Writing Classroom
Carrie Finn and Nancy Pinkston
Hawkeye Community College
Waterloo, Iowa
Connie Miller
MN West Community and Technical College
Worthington, Minnesota
TYCA Midwest - Lincoln, NE
October 11, 2012