The Kecoughtan High School Writing Tutorial — developed by assistant principal Tiffany Sanzo of the Hampton, Virginia, school — is a very informative writing-process tutorial.
I especially like the “Annotating the Prompt” page, which goes step by step through analyzing and marking a writing prompt. The tutorial also features very detailed information on writing introductions, topic sentences, body paragraphs, and conclusions. All information is supported with graphic examples.
On the down side, I experienced a very annoying plugin issue with every page of the tutorial. The Quicktime audio playback plugin used on each page is apparently not compatible with the latest version of Firefox.
Because of this accessibility problem, every page downloaded slowly, I got an ugly error bar across the top of every page asking me to install something my browser considered “unknown,” and I was not able to experience the entire tutorial with audio, as intended.
None of this occurred in Internet Explorer.
Updates
- I emailed Chris Wyatt, Instructional Technology Resource Teacher with Hampton Schools, from a link on the site to explain my difficulties, the same day I posted this. He replied quickly, asking about my versions of Firefox and Quicktime, and although he tried to recreate my situation, said he had no difficulties. So it could be that it’s about my setup? If you try out the site, please reply here with your experience. =)
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