Your desktop or mine: Extending the reach of writing instruction

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Kayfetz, Janet L. Schulzrinne, Henning Sherwood, Timothy Tiwari, Mohit
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Student-teacher conferencing is an integral component of university-level writing instruction and a crucial element in the development of a student writer. The individualized conferencing session not only supplements traditional classroom activities but is the principal mode of mentoring and learning once a class has ended. While the in-person format is the most familiar practice for the writing conference, options for effective remote conferencing between a student and a writing instructor have not been explored. In this paper, we describe how desktop sharing provides a flexible medium for remote, collaborative text editing, and how it preserves the most important characteristics of an in-person conference. Computer Science PhD students who used desktop sharing with their writing instructor over a period of two years found remote editing useful and convenient as long as voice communication was intelligible and stable. We discuss the differences between remote and face-toface conferencing, and highlight the instructor’s challenges when using a remote editing approach for the mentoring of student writers, especially if student and instructor have no previous shared editing experiences.
Starting Page	129
Ending Page	140
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.18848/1835-9795/cgp/v03i03/40286
Volume Number	3
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://cs.ucsb.edu/~sherwood/pubs/UbiqLearn-10-desktop.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/papers/Kayf11_Your.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~sherwood/pubs/UbiqLearn-10-desktop.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/~sherwood/pubs/UbiqLearn-10-desktop.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.18848/1835-9795%2Fcgp%2Fv03i03%2F40286
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article