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2001 Annual MeetingFriday Sessions related to Technology
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Blogs as Communication Tools for Writing Projects |
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We hope that our session will stimulate interest in using Web logs as a communication tool and a teaching tool at Writing Project sites. After we demonstrate how we are currently using Blogs to share experiences with one another, we will showcase a variety of ways that teachers are using Blogs in their classrooms. We will ask participants to freewrite about ways that they think Blogs might be used by tc's at their sites. Finally, we will set up a new Blog to record participants' ideas and comments. We will invite participants to continue sharing ideas after the conference using this Blog as a site for cross-site collaborations. Our dream is to find several teachers will want their students from different parts of the country to collaborate on Blog projects.
Presenter(s): Kay Baughman, Paula Parsons, Dawn Rodrigues
Topic(s): Technology writing and learning
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Developing Leadership and Sustaining Community in Teacher Research: A Collaborative Effort | Thursday
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Participants in this session will examine a model partnership between a local school district and a writing project site which has as its goal the development of leadership for teacher research and the establishment of local teacher research networks within the district. Teacher researchers will share their struggles and their triumphs with the challenge of conducting their research while training ofr local leadership.
Presenter(s): Sharon Miller
Topic(s): Developing school partnerships, Developing site leadership, Technology writing and learning
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Global conversations: Facilitating Online Cultural Exchanges |
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In the tense cultural climate following 911, teachers may need some help
in planning activities that will teach students skills and sensitivity for
appreciating another culuture as well as meeting minimum standards for
research and writing.
Sharing her actual successful assignments and procedures,
Joan Anderson will outline her successful online cultural exchange project
that is adaptable for various grade levels. The project allows both groups
to learn a web based research process for completing a researched essay and
to learn how to address a culturally different audience in written exchanges on the WWW.
After a decade of teaching online research writing,
Joan shares her writing assignments, procedures, trouble shooting, and a flexible
plan for designing a web site to support the exchange.
Presenter(s): Joan Anderson
Topic(s): Developing school partnerships, Developing site leadership, Diversity, Technology writing and learning
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Pitfalls and Progress: Using Technology to Build Writing Project Programs |
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Pitfalls and Progress: Using Technology to Build Writing Project Programs
This short roundtable followed by open-ended discussion will focus on strategies for using technology to support programs and individual teachers' professional development at an NWP site. Drawing on the role that technology has played in several major program initiatives at the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project, panel members will share information illustrating an important trend in technology use at the KMWP. In each case, a teacher consultant will describe setbacks as well as progress achieved, both individually and for the site. Bernadette Lambert will trace the trajectory of her personal growth as a strategic user of email - how she moved from a resistant, irregular reader of email during two earlier KMWP initiatives to being an active manager of email to guide her team's collaborative activities in the current Keeping and Creating American Literatures project. Traci Blanchard will describe her professional progress moving from assembling a small website honoring KMWP-affiliated writers to designing and coordinating the building of a major program's website over several years. Scott Thompson will outline initial challenges he faced handling the logistics associated with the KMWP listservs but will then track the expansion of his role to include discussion starting and moderating. Bonnie Webb will describe the challenges and successes she had combining her work as KMWP tech liaison with technology projects she was doing for the Keeping and Creating American Communities program. The session facilitators will then invite everyone else attending the session to share experiences and questions.
Presenter(s): Tracy Blanchard, Bernadette Lambert, Scott Thompson, Bonnie Webb
Topic(s): Developing site leadership, Technology writing and learning
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Reviving Rhetoric: Rhetorical Analysis in the Advanced Placement Program and the National Writing Project |
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Reviving Rhetoric: Rhetorical Analysis in the Advanced Placement Program and the National Writing Project
While rhetoric has made its way back into the college composition classroom during the last two decades, it hasn't appeared in many high school curricula. Two programs, the College Board Advanced Placement Program and the National Writing Project, are working to return the principles of rhetoric to the study of English in high school classroom. A rhetorical perspective on writing and communication is essential in the AP English Language course, and informs best practice for participants in the National Writing Project. This session explores the overlapping and mutual interests of the two programs with an eye to current and future exchanges and collaborations among the two groups.
The presenters will provide background information on the College Board, its curriculum, and professional development programs and will discuss key ideas involved with bringing rhetoric analysis to the high school classroom.
This will be a highly interactive session and participants will be invited to participate in discussion as well as small group activities and brainstorming sessions.
We will invite discussion on a number of central issues including: understanding the rhetorical dimensions of writing and writing pedagogy, developing techniques for teaching rhetorical analysis, locating internet resources, and incorporating into the realms of writing and rhetoric a wide range of popular culture discourse types such as advertising, song lyrics, speeches, conversation, web chat, and visual media.
Presenter(s): Danell Jones, Renee Shea, Ronald A. Sudol
Topic(s): Site partnerships with community agencies, Technology writing and learning, Teaching writing
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Students Creating New Genres Using New Technology |
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The computer is the most open-ended tool created by man and in any practical sense is limited only by its software. Students almost universally are motivated by computers. Too often, however, the software selection available to students is too narrow--certainly constrained by tight budgets, sometimes defined by what the tech desk is knowledgeable in supporting. Thousands of software programs might be used by teachers and students in “unusual ways” with remarkable results. (Don’t we often identify our talented and gifted students as those who make unusual connections?)
The session will begin with examples of students making “unusual connections with unusual software.” Storytelling, narrative writing, expository writing and poetry are blended with computer animation, sound design, and video into new genres, new art forms. The result: talking books, audio web broadcasts, dancing fractal poetry, techno-tutorials, song spoofs ala Weird Al, and sci-fi mini-myths.
It is the purpose of this session for teachers to leave with a broader sense of what they and their students can do with technology. More than that, it is hoped that teachers will gain a deeper sense of the impact of the process of using technology on students. It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to suggest that the important part of work of this sort is not the resulting media, remarkable as it may be, but what students see modeled by the teacher: organizing complex digital media, breaking complex tasks into learnable bits, working patiently with small groups diverse in their backgrounds and experiences, pacing projects over extended periods of time, recognizing and celebrating creativity and originality. A teacher may not know how to accomplish a specific software task or even be terribly familiar with a particular software program. The teacher models the process of how to learn new software by sitting down with students, thinking out loud and speculating what steps might work and trying them out. As the teacher talks aloud, students inevitably chime in with suggestions and comments of their own, and the session becomes a collaborative learning experience. The Art of Learning New Software may be the most important skill we have to pass on.
Inevitably there will be questions. Which software do you recommend? How do you find out about different kinds of software? How do you learn new software programs? How do you teach students to use them? How do you afford software programs? How do these activities meet standards? Where do you find the time? Where does one begin?
Door prize: CD containing all examples used during the presentation.
Topic(s): Technology writing and learning
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Writing and Learning Supported by Technology across the Grade Levels—Poster Session | Friday
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Presenter(s): Joan Anderson, Glen L. Bledsoe, Cynthia Fuselier
Topic(s): Technology writing and learning
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Making Connections: Online Communities and University Partnerships | Friday
10:15am - 11:30am |
Learn about two models of online publishing by high school students in this session. One is an approach to online writing assistance for students who submit their writing and receive feedback from a writing center's trained writing assistant via the Web. A second model describes successful online publishing by students who interview local community and family members and publish a book of collected interviews. Session participants will be invited to share their experiences with online publishing projects.
Presenter(s): Sophie Bradford, Lynne Vance, Stephanie Vanderslice
Strand: Country Goes Tech, sponsored by the Rural Sites Network
Topic(s): Developing school partnerships, Technology writing and learning
Location: Laurel A
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Inquiry with Technology | Friday
10:15am - 11:30am |
The New York City Writing Project’s “Inquiry with Technology” is an advanced seminar, a three-week summer institute that is part of the site’s ongoing technology initiative. Institute participants engage in a "web-quest" around the theme of learning styles and how the computer affects the ways in which we learn. Using this experience as a model, participants adapt specific units of work to the web-quest format, works-in-progress that are posted on the Web at MyClassSite.org. The session includes a discussion of the work and examples of what participants have done with students so far this year.
Presenter(s): Paul Allison, Ed Osterman
Topic(s): Continuity programs, Technology writing and learning, Teaching Demonstration
Location: Laurel B
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Panel Discussion: Authors and Issues Online Conferences with Laurie Olsen and Jane Zeni | Friday
10:15am - 11:30am |
NWP Authors and Issues Online Conference is now in its third year, having previously hosted Don Murray and Ralph Fletcher. This year, NWP’s English Language Learners Network and Teacher Inquiry Communities Network will host issues-centered discussions between the NWP community and two authors in the field: Laurie Olsen, author of Made in America: Immigrant Students in our Public Schools, and Jane Zeni, editor of Ethical Issues in Practitioner Research. This session gives a preview of the online conferences with these authors in January and spring 2002.
Presenter(s): Shirley Brown, Gary Obermeyer, Laurie Olsen, Laura Paradise, Joan Taylor, Greta Vollmer, Jane Zeni
Topic(s): Continuity programs, ELL issues, Technology writing and learning
Location: Essex A , Essex B
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Documenting National Writing Project Institutes | Friday
10:15am - 11:30am |
Presenter(s): Carolyn Frank, Robert Land, Silvia Neves, Rosemary Staley
Topic(s): Evaluation / Documentation, Summer Institute, Technology writing and learning, Teacher research, Teaching writing
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Get the Technology to the Kids and Get Out of the Way! | Friday
1:00pm - 2:15pm |
The work of a dynamic group of rural high school students in Northern Arizona is changing the way technology is integrated into classrooms. The students work alongside teachers to design student-centered curriculum units correlated to state standards and district curriculum mandates. Participants in this session will see effective technology integration in action and discuss ways to make technology part of the everyday classroom experience.
Presenter(s): Ann Gardner
Strand: Country Goes Tech, sponsored by the Rural Sites Network
Topic(s): Standards and assessment, Technology writing and learning
Location: Atlantic
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We Know Drama: Teacher Stories from the E-Anthology | Friday
1:00pm - 2:15pm |
The E-Anthology offers an exciting online venue for response to TC writing and conversations about teaching writing. It deepens the experience of summer institute participants by encouraging them to share their writing with an extended audience, to take the next step toward publishing, and to carry on conversations with other TCs across the nation. This session will show how easy it is to participate, and offer a chance to experience the drama of teacher stories from the E-Anthology. Session participants will help shape the E-Anthology of the future by sharing ideas and suggestions.
Presenter(s): William Banks, Shirley Brown, Karen McComas, Mary-Lynne Monroe, Michelle Rogge Gannon, Shari Williams
Topic(s): Technology writing and learning
Location: Laurel B
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Writing the Online Learning Community: A High School Literature Class as a Case | Friday
1:00pm - 2:15pm |
Presenter(s): Bill Connolly, Shai Klima
Topic(s): Reading/writing connection, Technology writing and learning
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The Online Professional I: Writing and Response in the NWP E-Anthology | Friday
1:00pm - 2:15pm |
Presenter(s): William Banks, Peter Booth, Shirley Brown, Tim Mathew, Mary-Lynne Monroe, Michelle Rogge Gannon, Shari Williams, Shelbie Witte
Topic(s): Summer Institute, Technology writing and learning
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Technology as a Way of Learning and Using Language | Friday
1:00pm - 2:15pm |
Presenter(s): Paul Allison
Topic(s): Summer Institute, Technology writing and learning
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Digital Storytelling: A New Multimedia Presentation Format | Friday
2:30pm - 3:45pm |
Six teachers who have used an innovative multimedia format to document stories of classroom teaching, team building, and professional development will share their insights into potential applications for the new technique. Participants will learn about the process of creating digital stories and experiment with aspects of digital storytelling. Each teacher-presenter will host a poster session to give participants a look at how digital stories have enlivened discussion about teaching and learning.
Presenter(s): Sharon Bishop, Beth Calloway, Ann Gardner, Corey Harbaugh, Colleen Myers, Caleb Paull, Susan Willis
Strand: Country Goes Tech, sponsored by the Rural Sites Network
Topic(s): Technology writing and learning
Location: Kent C
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Technology and the Teacher Inquiry Communities Network | Friday
2:30pm - 3:45pm |
Many writing project sites are working on developing and sustaining their teacher research communities. One component of these learning communities is their use of technology—specifically email, MOO, and WebCT—to facilitate online interactions. This session will explore different possibilities for online learning communities and draw on the experiences of presenters as well as session participants.
Presenter(s): Del Arnold, Ruth Devlin, Karen McComas, Marilyn McKinney
Strand: Teacher Research, sponsored by the Teacher Inquiry Commmunities Network
Topic(s): Technology writing and learning
Location: Galena
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Writing and the Online Conversation: A Power Point of Interaction | Friday
2:30pm - 3:45pm |
Presenters in this interactive session will share their experience mentoring online professional development and integrating technology in the context of a workshop experience. Participants will interact in a simulated Web discussion on the topic of assessing writing. Opportunities will be provided for questions and answers and sharing of best practices.
Presenter(s): Angela Bodino, Cynthia Bolton, Donna Camp, Bill Connolly, Jocelyn Downs, Kelly McGuire
Topic(s): Technology writing and learning, Teaching writing
Location: Laurel A
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The Online Professional II: Supporting Young Writers Camps Online | Friday
2:30pm - 3:45pm |
Presenter(s): Del Arnold, Laura Tracy Baisden, Andrew McBee, Karen McComas, Amy McElroy, Irene Ray
Topic(s): Technology writing and learning, Youth development
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Electronic Conversations of Inquiry: Online Teacher Talk | Friday
4:00pm - 5:15pm |
With an NWP Rural Sites Network minigrant, the Connecticut Writing Project created an online teacher inquiry project. Teachers at the site discussed, via message board and chat room, such issues as assessment, the role of grammar in writing process classrooms, what it really means when we ask students to read a text, and cross-grade-level dialogue. These conversations led to the development of a four-step technology plan for the site. This session will demonstrate the role technology can play in developing teacher inquiry projects and share lessons learned in supporting the needs of rural teachers.
Presenter(s): Penny Baril, Mary Mackley, Sarah Malinoski, Kay Saur
Topic(s): Technology writing and learning
Location: Laurel B
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Technology and the English Classroom: New Perspectives | Friday
4:00pm - 5:15pm |
Changes in educational technology present enormous challenges to teachers of English and language arts. This session will examine the intersection of educational technology and assumptions about teaching and learning. A look at the current state of educational technology as it relates to teachers will be followed by a discussion of questions such as: Where do teachers learn to use technology? How well does that instruction link literacy issues to technology? What obstacles impede teachers in their use of technology? How do teachers find ways around these barriers? What support does the university offer teachers interested in learning about technology and literacy?
Presenter(s): Betsy A. Bowen, John Chiappetta
Topic(s): Technology writing and learning, Teaching writing
Location: Laurel A
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Two Interdisciplinary Writing Projects: Authentic Community Connections and Technology | Friday
4:00pm - 5:15pm |
This session features two interdisciplinary projects incorporating technology developed by third, fourth, and fifth grade students at Weil Technology Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Both projects showcase the relationship the students have to their community. Participants will have an opportunity to see the work of the students online.
Presenter(s): Monique McIntosh, Lora Turner
Topic(s): Technology writing and learning, Teaching writing
Location: Laurel C
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Viewing and Representing: It Sounds Great but How Do You Evaluate It? | Friday
4:00pm - 5:15pm |
Presenter(s): Kit Chiu, Trudy Driskell, Margaret Hill
Topic(s): Standards and assessment, Technology writing and learning
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D13 |
Explorers in Writing for the Computer Age | Friday
4:00pm - 5:15pm |
Presenter(s): Shayne Goodrum, Ruie Pritchard
Topic(s): Developing school partnerships, Technology writing and learning
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