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Flight: Writing for a Classroom Research Project

JMU Media Resources   Videotape no.2082

George Mason University and Fairfax County Public Schools Fairfax, Va. : The Production Center at Arthur Young [production company] ; [Alexandria, VA] : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c1984

1 VHS (30 min.):+ 1 discussion guide (60 p.)

Series: Teachers Teaching Writing; program 1

Follows the students in Suzanne Brady's fourth and fifth grade class as they write research reports on various aspects of aviation. Some of them look up information in the library; others conduct personal interviews with local experts. All of the students write several drafts of their report and finally share it with the whole class. Intended to demonstrate ways to teach writing in the elementary classroom.

            Creative writing (Elementary education) -- Study and teaching 

            School reports 

            Report writing 

            Child authors 

JMU Media Resources   Videotape no.7014

Rockville, MD : American Occupational Therapy Assoc. Inc., c1993

1 VHS (30 min.): + guide (25 p.)

This 30-minute video includes scenes from regular classrooms showing students from kindergarten through third grade completing typical classroom assignments involving printing and cursive writing. These scenes are included to illustrate student's performance in classroom during writing assignments.

            Writing 

            Penmanship -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- United States 

Learning to Confer: Writing Conferences in Action

JMU Media Resources   Videotape no.7837

Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2003     

1 VHS (30 min.) + 1 viewing guide

In her book Writing Through Childhood Shelley Harwayne set up a framework to guide teachers in responding to student writing. Now, with this video, watch Shelley conferring with several children about their writing. Based on the conference guidelines she explains in her book, the video follows Shelley as she gently inquires how a student feels about being asked to write, notices if a student takes risks as a writer, checks whether a student understands what writing is for, and ensures (once the above conditions are in place) that a student has strategies in hand for improving the work.

           English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Elementary)

Peter Elbow on Writing

JMU Media Resources   Videotape no.5322

~Connect to video online (JMU users)~

Northhampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c1995

1 VHS (43 min.)

Professor Elbow provides insight into how one works through problems in writing. He explains the role of feedback and the importance of readers and listeners to good writing.

            English language -- Rhetoric 

            Rhetoric -- Study and teaching 

Portfolios: Students as Readers, Writers, and Evaluators

JMU Media Resources   Videotape no.5125- 5127 

Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c1996

3 VHS (67 min.)

Contents: [v.1.] Students find value in themselves (20:45 min.) -- [v.2.] Students find value in each other (22:06 min.) -- [v.3.] Students find value in their work (23:30 min.)

Summary Focuses on a portfolio project which provides students and their teachers with evidence of who they are. Gives the students the opportunity to show others their special interests and gives evidence of their strengths which help them blossom.

            Portfolios in education 

            English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching 

            Education, Primary -- United States 

Teaching Writing: A Process Approach. Level I

Media Resources DVD 4707

Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences ; Lawrenceville, NJ : Cambridge Educational, c2005
1 DVD-R (45 min.) + 1 workbook (18 p.) and 1 viewer's guide (9 p.)

NOTE: workbook and viewer's guide are also used with DVD 4708 (Teaching Writing: A Process Approach. Level II -- see below)
This video outlines the process model of teaching writing, where instructors treats the students as fellow writers involved in a creative and unpredictable progression of ideas and actions. Contents: Introduction to the process approach -- Creating a writing culture in your classroom -- The role of reading -- Pre-writing -- Drafting -- Revising -- Presenting.

English language -- Writing -- Study and teaching
English language -- Composition and exercises
English language -- Rhetoric
English language -- Study and teaching

Teaching Writing: A Process Approach. Level II

JMU Media Resources DVD 4708
JMU Media Resources DVD 4707-4708 workbook
JMU Media Resources DVD 4707-4708 guide

Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences ; Lawrenceville, NJ : Cambridge Educational, c2005
1 DVD-R (45 min.) + 1 workbook (18 p.) and 1 viewer's guide (9 p.)

NOTE: workbook and viewer's guide are also used with DVD 4707 (Teaching Writing: A Process Approach. Level I -- see above)
This video outlines the process model of teaching writing, where instructors treats the students as fellow writers involved in a creative and unpredictable progression of ideas and actions. Contents: Introduction to the process approach -- Creating a writing culture in your classroom -- The role of reading -- Pre-writing -- Drafting -- Revising -- Presenting.

English language -- Writing -- Study and teaching
English language -- Composition and exercises
English language -- Rhetoric
English language -- Study and teaching

Write in the Middle: A Workshop for Middle School Teachers: An Eight-Part Professional Development Workshop

JMU Media Resources DVD 1974-1977

South Burlington, Vt. : Annenberg/CPB, c2004
4 DVD-R (ca. 60 min. each) + 1 workshop guide (80 p.)

Series: Professional Development Workshop
Illustrates effective ways teachers can help their students become confident and proficient writers. Middle school teachers from across the country share specific strategies they use with their students, and extensive video from each of their classrooms gives viewers an opportunity to see those strategies in action. Contents: Disc 1. Creating a community of writers -- Making writing meaningful -- Disc 2. Teaching poetry -- Teaching persuasive writing -- Disc 3. Teaching multigenre writing -- Responding to writing : teacher to student -- Disc 4. Responding to writing : peer to peer -- Teaching the power of revision.

English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching --(Middle school)

Writers

JMU Media Resources   Videotape no.2083

Fairfax, Va. : The Production Company at Arthur Young production company; Alexandria, Va.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development [distributor], c1984 

1 VHS (24 min.) + 1 discussion guide (46 p.)

Series: Teachers Teaching Writing; program 6

Shows how Jim Musante tries to help all the third-graders in his class feel happy and confident about writing. In this tape the children work on interviewing, organizing, and revising as they write personal profiles of each other to go inside their own published storybooks.

            Creative writing (Elementary education) -- Study and teaching

            Children's writings

The Writing Code

Media Resources DVD 4205-4207

Harriman, N.Y.: Ways of Knowing, c2007
3 DVD-R (171 min.)
Forty-eight authors, linguists, historians, anthropologists, and poets discuss the history of writing, explaining how written communication has shaped the last 5000 years of human history. Prg. 1 - The greatest invention: A look at the creation of various systems of writing, from Egyptian hieroglyphs to Cherokee. Prg. 2 - The art and the craft: A look at the physical and psychological craft of writing, from Gilgamesh to the blogosphere. Prg. 3 - The literate society: A look at the process of learning to write, from clay tablets in Sumer to the modern American public school system.

Writing -- History
Written communication
Literacy -- History
Educational television programs

Writing Online

JMU Media Resources

~Connect to video online (JMU users)~

Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2006

1 DVD (29 min.)

Series: Writing Lessons

"From blogs, to e-books, to online reviews, this program introduces viewers to what it's like to be a writer in a technological age. Brief stories of blogs such as Washingtonienne and Belle de Jour that became books (and one book, Jim Munroe's An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil, that masqueraded as a blog) and a quick interview with a successful e-book publisher are balanced by two short panel discussions: the pros and cons of e-books, with York University's Caitlin Fisher and columnist and unapologetic Luddite Linwood Barclay, and the value of online book reviews by readers, with author Marnie Woodrow and book reviewer James Granger" -- container.

Online journalism
Authorship -- Data processing
Blogs
Electronic books
Electronic publishing

The Writing Process : Research

JMU Media Resources

~Connect to video online (JMU users)~

Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2007

1 DVD (26 min.)

In this program famous authors, Roddy Doyle (Oh, Play That Thing), Andrew Pyper (The Trade Mission), Kerri Sakamoto (One Hundred Million Hearts), and Ray Robertson (Moody Food), discuss creative strategies in writing and research methodology and explain why solid facts make great fiction.

Authorship
Creative writing
Research -- Methodology