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Instructor: Gary Ryan, phone: 314-985-6100 Extension 4019 OR email: or ryang@cbchs.org  Texts: Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century (Paperback) by David Franklin Warlick, and Ten
Easy Ways to Use Technology in the English Classroom: (Paperback)
by Hilve Firek..." The Teaching Writing With Technology Online Syllabus and Reading List Supplementary Texts: Writing Space by Jay David Bolter, Growing Up Digital by Don Tapscott, and How Teachers Learn Technology Best by Jamie McKenzie Logistics: This class meets on Mondays from 4:30 p.m.
to 7:30 pm, January 14– April 28.There will be an additional 6
hours of online distance learning. Location: SSB 102 Materials: Flash drives; paper, etc… While at
school, we will be working primarily with Microsoft Office (e.g.Word
and PowerPoint) and DreamWeaver. Away from UM-St. Louis, you will need
to work primarily on your own with a word program and access to the
internet. It will be your responsibility to work beyond the class meetings
in order to complete your web assignments and upload your materials
to the class website, including to your own UM-St. Louis web account.
The purpose of this course is to explore how digital tools
are changing the nature of teaching writing. Participants will
have the opportunity to investigate, experiment with and learn
to teach writing in an environment where all the participants
have computers, their primary course text is online, and everything
happens in a digital environment. Participants will set up their
own digital teaching (web-based) environment in order to effectively
exploit presentation software, the Internet, email, discussion
boards, web authoring software, blogs, and other multimedia programs. Participants will learn how to design research-tested writing assignments that encourage collaboration with peers, experts, and others to contribute to a content-related knowledge base by using technology to compile, synthesize, produce, and disseminate information, models, and other creative works, such as digital compositions and storytelling. In essence, you'll learn to survive teaching in the digital world. Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of computers and word processing, either Macintosh or IBM platforms. Course Objectives: After the completion of the course
students will:. Understand how the computer fits into the history
of writing technologies, from clay tablets, to codex, to manuscripts,
to the printed book, to the electronic page. Be familiar with
several popular writing software programs and environments and
their relationship to the writing process. Locate and retrieve
information on the Internet and be able to download and manipulate
files from the Internet in order to help them write texts. Connect
to and interact with a class discussion board for the purpose
of writing about their reading and work and getting peer feedback
(a kind of electronic reader response journal). Write, design,
and publish their own teacher website to sustain your own digital
community of learners. [This website will provide a scaffolding
for the rest of your teaching career, as you annotate your syllabus
and expand you abilities to communicate in this digital environment.]
Create a lesson plan that incorporating the use of technologies
and write a short essay detailing its benefits in the lesson.
Develop lessons that support student inquiry, by incorporating
meta-cognitive strategies that follows and models the way the
brain constructs meaning. Understand how teachers learn technology
skills and how to help them use technology in the classroom,
so you may help facilitate professional development in your own
school systems. Assess their own educational environment and
develop a written plan for incorporating technology into their
curriculums and training others in their systems to do the same. |
