Slideshow is created by Sherry Jones. Slideshow is co-presented by Sherry Jones and Kate Guthrie Caruso. Description: This is a presentation at the COLTT 2013 conference on rgMOOC, or "Rhetoric and Composition: The Persuasive Power of Video Games as Paratexts." rgMOOC is a type of gMOOC, or game-based MOOC. gMOOC is a term coined by Sherry Jones and Jack Park. This presentation details Sherry's development of the gMOOC theory and how the theory is implemented in the UX design of rgMOOC, as well as Kate's method of teaching Writing Composition via Youtube, Twitter, and other Web 2.0 tools. Register for rgMOOC 2! (Sep. 2 - Nov. 10, 2013) - http://bit.ly/rgmooc2form