Dallas TeleLearning

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Dallas TeleLearning
English Composition I
English Composition II
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Dallas TeleLearningWho We Are

• Video-based courseware Producer/Developer
• Over 35 years experience
• Have produced more than 40 courses used
  nationwide in areas of
• Accounting, Business, Earth Science, Economics,
  English, Government, Health, History, Humanities,
  Literature, Nutrition, Sociology
• More than 1,500 colleges and universities
  nationally have used our courses
• More than 2,000,000 students nationally have
  enrolled in our courses
• http//telelearning.dcccd.edu/

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Dallas TeleLearningInstructional Design/Course
Development Process

• 1-2 Year Process
• 1.2 Million Investment
• National and Local Faculty Advisory Team
• Development Team Content Specialist,
  Instructional Designer, Producer, Director, etc.
• Partner with Publishers Tie Courses to Texts

English Composition I John Mauk, John Metz The
Composition of Everyday Life A Guide to Writing
English Composition II John Mauk, John
Metz Inventing Arguments
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English Composition I IIThe Writers Circle
The Writers Odyssey

• Two video-based courses in English Composition
• Deliverable online, face-to-face, or hybrid
• Courses consist of
• Textbooks
• 26 video programs (13 videos each)
• Student Course Guides
• Faculty Guides
• Online/interactive versions containing additional
  resources, exercises and activities can be
  easily imported into course management system

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English Composition I IIThe Writers
CircleThe Writers Odyssey

• Course goals
• Help students grow as thinkers and writers
• Provide students with rhetorical tools and
  writing strategies

• Course objectives at course conclusion,
  students will be able to apply a variety of
• Invention strategies
• Organizational strategies
• Revision strategies

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English Composition I IIThe Writers Circle
The Writers Odyssey

• Course structure/design basic strategies
• Student-centered
• Focus on recursive writing processes of
  invention, delivery and revision
• Direct instruction about writing techniques and
  rhetorical tools
• Modeling of desired outcomes
• Application of skills to each stage of the
  writing process

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English Composition I IIThe Writers Circle
The Writers Odyssey

• Print, video, and interactive materials
• Deliver content
• Present realistic scenarios
• Present interviews with professional writers
• Provide samples for modeling skills needed in
  academic writing
• Provide the opportunity to practice writing and
  demonstrate progress via interactive activities
  and assignments in Student Course Guide

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English Composition I IIThe Writers Circle
The Writers Odyssey

• Course Demo
• Gurus
• Students
• Professional writers
• Quick Tips
• Interactive activities

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English Composition I IIThe Writers Circle
The Writers Odyssey

• Schedule The Writers Circle available now
  for Summer 2007 adoption
• The Writers Odyssey available for Fall 2007
  adoption

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Questions
Thank you! Diane Martin dmartin_at_dcccd.edu Janice
Christophel jchristophel_at_dcccd.edu