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Writing in the Digital Age: Topics

What is hypertext:

Copyright:

"There's a pretty simple rule when it comes to the net. If you didn't write it, and you want to reproduce it, ask the creator. Most people don't really need to know much more than this. If you do, check the other documents."
- by Brad Templeton, http://www.templetons.com/brad/copyright.html

 

 

Inquiry Based Education: Here are some sites that will show the development of Web Activities beyond information searches to true critical thinking activities.
   
  Web-and-Flow: online It's an interactive design site, a just-in-time workshop, an interactive book, an expert system, an HTML editor., a Web host., a learning community. http://www.web-and-flow.com/
  Filamentality: Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into learning activities. It combines the "filament" of the Web with a learner's "mentality".
   
Both of above programs suggest a process of developing lessons that support student inquiry. Another important aspect to creating lessons is the Constructivist Method that follows the way the brain constructs meaning.
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 CONSTRUCTIVIST LESSON PLAN
(follows the way the brain constructs meaning)

Teachers Facilitate

Teachers carefully and deliberately collect the kinds of "stuff" students are exposed to.

Teachers facilitate learning by guiding students into examinations of information.

Students Explore:

Allow students to "play," express their curiosity through hands-on experiences, ask questions, make comments and observations by providing a safe atmosphere.

Allow the element of wonder in the classroom.


Dialogue

Teachers develop concepts through specific, content-centered information that students need to enhance understanding, for example, definitions, historical context, significance, relationships, important details.


Teaching With Webpages

Teacher Website Design:


Appearance: Quality of the graphics, legibility of text, overall layout, color schemes

Content: Usefullness of information provided for students and parents, quality of writing, subject matter, current information

User Friendly: Ease of navigation, accuracy of links, logical structure

UEN Web Academy: Tutorial on building a teacher website using DreamWeaver

Module Ten: Creating a Web Page

Designing A Web Site: Classroom School District-A cool PowerPoint Presentation

Writing Software packages: pros and cons (Aspects, Daedalus, Commonspace, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint)

What Happens When the Web Becomes and Extension of the Course Textbook?

 The Web as Reading and Writing Text

 One of the best educators dealing with online learning is Dawn Rodrigues. Here are a selection of her websites.

 :"My Reading and Writing in an OnlineWorld (Prentice Hall 200), is a small textbook with a large web space, that includes many elements traditionally found in print textbooks. Among those elements is a startup online anthology. My intent is for that anthology to grow, for I view the Web as the best source for online reading/writing texts that will support classroom inquiry "(Reading and Writing in an Onlline World http://www.prenhall.com/onlineworld).

--Presentation at the National Writing Project National Convention in Atlanta, 2003.
 

 

 

Owls, Discussion Boards, Blogs, Wikis, Nings

Beyond the Classroom: Online Schools

Profile: Lemon Grove School District-The Web-based School

Extending Literacy

"Students are able to access the Internet as well as resources at school from home. With increased access at home, children can complete homework assignments online and submit them via e-mail. Parents can easily communicate with teachers. Research is made easier. This connection extends literacy beyond the traditional classroom, not only for students but the rest of the family members and other subscribers in the community as well.

The New Classroom Environment

The evolution of technology integration in the classroom environment has brought about changes in the structures of teaching and learning. With every computer on the network connected to the Internet, teachers are able to develop web-based instructional units and incorporate guided web-searching activities into daily classroom lessons."

LemonLINK: Project to incorporate technology in the school district.

 

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