Re: grammar tricks (fwd)

[DOSSINMM@SPLAVA.CC.PLATTSBURGH.EDU]

Date sent:  26-NOV-1996 09:01:16 
Hi to those of you interested in info on cybertutoring. I had begun 
replying to this off list but will be happy to do so on list if others are 
interested.

Our owl is in its infancy right now.  We give writing assistance over email 
and fax (fax because our uploading anddownloading procedures are very 
cumbersome right now.  This is supposed to change.)  Right now ours serves 
nursing students who take courses at remote sites over distance learning 
technology. They are the perfect target for an owl since they can't get 
tutoring at their site campuses because they're not enrolled as students 
there. And, they never or rarely come to Plattsburgh,so they don't use our 
writing center here.

One thing I quickly realized was how important our tutoring skills of 
making a session a truly human interchange was important in owl work too.  
Perhaps even more important, in fact, for an audience that has minimal 
contact with the university in other ways.  I also learned that, just as in 
ftf tutoring, the request will be for grammar assistance when the real 
needs are more substantial.  this can be tricky to negotiate over email.

Well, that's enough for now.  I'll be glad to answer any questions about 
how we do things here.  We're a very simple and unsophisticated setup right 
now but are planning expansion and new technologies when the distance 
learning project here becomes a campus-wide project in a few years (right 
now it's limited to the nursing program.)

Have a good thanksgiving, folks!
Mary Dossin
dossinmm@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu


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>Yea, Mary Dossin -- I'd love to hear more about how your 
>cybertutoring works.  We are just -- as we post -- setting up a 
>program so we can start receiving and commenting on papers via 
>e-mail.  Rick Leahy at Boise State U. has been doing it for a year or 
>so -- this is not the high-tech real-time on-line stuff, but 
>infinitely more do-able for us, we think.   Rick -- are you there? 
Mary M. Dossin
Claude J. Clark Learning Center
SUNY Plattsburgh
Plattsburgh, NY  12901
518 564-6138
dossinmm@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu