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UM-St. Louis ENG/ED 317: Teaching Writing with Technology Gary Ryan, email: ryangary@cbchs.org
Gary Ryan is a Language Arts teacher at Christian Brothers College High School in St. Louis, MO where he teaches American Studies, American Literature, Composition, and Writing with Technology. In 1992, he was named as a founding board member of the GateWay Writing Project, one of the sites for the National Writing Project. He is also the First Vice-President of the Greater St. Louis English Teachers Association. In 1995, he was named to the Executive Board of the NCTE's Assembly on Computers in English. In 1997, Mr. Ryan was named the Technology Liason to the board of directors of the Missouri Association of Teachers of English.
Mr. Ryan's publications include "Epistemic Conversations: Creating Socratic Dialogue in Hypertext," Context, Intertexts, and Hypertexts, ed. Scott Lloyd DeWitt and Kip Strasma (Hampton Press, Inc, 1999). ISBN 1-57273-214-8 (cl). ISBN 1-57273-215-6 (ppb)
Dustjacket Blurb: Gary Ryan explores how collaborative conversations are shaped by hypertext applications in a high school setting in, "Epistemic Conversations: Creating Socratic Dialogue in Hypertext." Drawing on the work of Plato, Vygotsky, and Ong, Ryan argues that conversation provides a structure into which students can pour their ideas and solidify cognitive structures in the crucible of discourse. While teaching high school English, he extended epistemic discussions into the computer medium by taking advantage of hypertext tools to expand his students' abilities to participate in the making of a text. His students, he argues, have created a writing environment that replaces status with flux, product with inquiry.
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