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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 videocassette (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
Getting a Grip on Handwriting/ Barbara Hanft
JMU Media Resources Videotape no.7014
Published Rockville, MD : American Occupational Therapy Assoc. Inc., c1993
1 videocassette (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 videocassette (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
Northhampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c1995 / a production of the Media Education Foundation
1 videocassette (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 / University of New Hampshire ; writers/producers, Kathryn Staley, James Hansen
3 videocassettes (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
Write in the Middle: A Workshop for Middle School Teachers: An Eight-Part Professional Development Workshop
JMU Media Resources DVD 1974-1977
Publisher South Burlington, Vt. : Annenberg/CPB, c2004
4 videodiscs DVD-R (ca. 60 min. each) + 1 workshop guide (80 p.)
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
Series Professional development workshopEnglish 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 videocassette (24 min.) + 1 discussion guide (46 p.)
Teachers teaching writing [videorecording] ; 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
Writing Online
JMU Media Resources DVD 2793
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2006
1 DVD (29 min.)
"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 DVD 2792
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
