Significant
Partners in Cyburbia:
College Teacher
Certification Students Responding to High School Writers Via Email
NCTE 2004 Convention Session A37
November 19, 2004
Susan Callahan, Northern Illinois University,
DeKalb Illinois -- callsusan@niu.edu
Michael Day, Northern Illinois
University, DeKalb Illinois -- mday@niu.edu
Dan Warlop, Auburn High School, Rockford Illinois --
Dan.Warlop@rps205.com
If you are
interested, please copy down the URL for this web page:
http://www.engl.niu.edu/mday/ncte04.html
Handout:
Practical Application at Last! The Online College-High
School Connection
Excerpted from
“Language Arts Online – Technological
Literacy in the Secondary Language Arts Classroom,” a chapter in Strategic Alliances to Improve Secondary
Mathematics, Science, Technology, and English Education (AAHE,
2004).
1. Overview -- Michael Day
The Rockford/NIU
National Science Foundation Grant
Forming the
partnership
Class observations at
Auburn High
Planning the module
- Meeting district and state standards
- Influencing attitudes toward
writing
- Welcome to Cyburbia: Changing the
nature of interaction on the Internet
- Entering the conversation:
teachers, preservice teachers, and HS students
- Interactive electronic observation
for preservice teachers
Choosing media for
essay exchange and communication
- School email and Internet
limitations
- Managing the online exchange
2. Bridging the Secondary and
Post-Secondary Writing Experience -- Dan Warlop and Michael Day
First semester
transmitting and commenting on essays
Second semester improvements
Students submitted
electronic texts
3. A Grade Is Not a Response:
Preservice Teachers Learn the Difference --Susan Callahan and Dan Warlop
Technological improvements
4. Film clips
- Short clip of Auburn High School, interior and exterior
- Dan Warlop's class submitting essays on WebBoard
- Short clip of Northern Illinois University English
Department, interior and exterior
- Susan Callahan's class commenting on Dan's class's essays
5. Implications: What we learned and where we
might go --Susan Callahan, Michael Day, and Dan Warlop
6. Discussion: How can other schools form
similar partnerships? Why should they consider them?-- Open to audience
and panelists