San Francisco State University
November 24, 2003
9 AM: Presenter Introductions: Michael Day, Nancy Patterson, Rich Rice, and Pat Schulze
9:15: Getting to know YOU: Online Introductions
using WebBoard.
- Log in to Michael Day's WebBoard at Northern Illinois University.
- Click on NEW USER and fill out only the boxes with red circles next to them.
- Choose a user name something like your real name, and a password that you will remember, and leave USE FRAMES checked.
- Then click on CREATE.
- Find our ACE 2003 Workshop Conference and read the first posting, WELCOME AND INSTRUCTIONS.
- Follow the instructions to introduce yourself and explain how you would or would not use a communication technology like WebBoard with your students.
- When done, click on POST (in the right side of the window, NOT at the upper left), REFRESH, and read the responses of other workshop participants.
- Finally, find a posting that doesn't have a + next to it, and respond to at least one other person.
9:45: Nancy Patterson: Overview of
computer technologies for the language arts clasroom
We also looked at the Romeo
and Juliet in IMspeak parody!
10:20 AM: Ten minute break
10:30 AM: Pat Schulze: Cybersophomore English Class and ReadWriteThink
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (please try to meet someone you don't know and talk over technology issues!)
1:00: Rich Rice: Word and Powerpoint Strategies: Track Changes, Hyperlinking, and Portfolios
1:50: Ten minute break
2:00: Nancy Patterson: Autobiographies Using Netscape Composer
2:50: Ten minute break
3:00: More Fun Things: Michael Day (We probably can't get to all of these, but you can choose what you like to hear about and try out from the topics below)
1. Web Page Evaluation
Go to Michael Day's Web Evaluation Site
2. Generating Ideas: Hands on Activities You Can Try
Prewriting, Freewriting, Blindwriting, Clustering.
Investigate software:
Rosemary West's Poetry Generator and Electric Mind
3. Finding New Ideas in Language Arts on the Web: Resources and Discussion Groups
NCTE's Home Page and Communities
4: Synchronous Communication Tools
Log in to Interversity
MOO and follow our instructions.
Some further resources:
1. Ideas for English class activities, stand-alone or non-networked computers:
Lorrie Felts’ compilation of activities from the Teacher to Teacher mailing list
Strategies on how to organize equal sharing of one computer in the Language arts classroom.
Jeanine DuBois: Going Solo: Creative Ideas for the One-Computer Classroom
Good ideas for having students use online resources such as almanacs and encyclopedias, create multimedia presentations, and even games.
Serena Roberts’ One Computer Classroom
A theoretical overview, as well as activities using skills tests, college test preparation banks, brainstorming software such as Inspiration, and a link to a bank of collaborative activities you can borrow.
Janine Lim’s The One Computer Classroom
Information on using offline browsers such
as WebWhacker, ideas for class projects, links to educational software
sites, teacher aids, and class management tools.
2. Ideas for English class activities on the Internet or in networked classrooms:
A case study and model web site for those interested in using the Internet in high school English classes. Be sure to look at some of the published reviews, look through the course syllaweb, and browse through some of the amazing online reference materials.
Nancy Patterson's Middle School Student Web Sites
Like Ted, Nancy is another pioneer in using
the Internet and the Web to their fullest in the secondary language arts
classroom. Check out what her students have done!
3. General resources for English and Composition Teachers:
The National Council of Teachers of English Home Page
Links to standards, position statements, guidelines, articles, references, discussions, and much more.
The NCTE Assembly on Computers in English
The group within NCTE concerned solely
with using computers and the Internet. Check out the links to the ACE
Journal.
Last Update: November 23, 2003
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