Writing+Idol

//presented by Angie D'Ambrosio// //reported by Richard Conner//

Students need to self assess their writing. Be your own BEST critic

Taught them to critique their own writing

Calibrate students by showing examples, scoring guides, and making sure they understand

Organization - "It looks like you put your ideas in a bag, shook it up, and pulled them out randomly on the page."

Formed student groups (judges), provided scoring guides, read a sample, then clicked in an answer with clickers (could use polleverywhere.com possibly)

Basically turned the calibration process into a game show. Broke the calibration into each domain; focus&coherence, organization, conventions etc.