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The Paperless Classroom: Teaching CyberEnglish. William Bass – Amy Johnson Technology Integration Specialists Parkway School District. wbass@pkwy.k12.mo.us ajohnson@pkwy.k12.mo.us http://www.pkwy.k12.mo.us/tishomepage. http://www.mrbassonline.com _ http://wbass.edublogs.org. Contact Us.
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The Paperless Classroom:Teaching CyberEnglish William Bass – Amy Johnson Technology Integration Specialists Parkway School District
wbass@pkwy.k12.mo.us ajohnson@pkwy.k12.mo.us http://www.pkwy.k12.mo.us/tishomepage http://www.mrbassonline.com_ http://wbass.edublogs.org Contact Us Other Resources
Beginnings • NCTE Conference 2004 • Ted Nellen • http://www.tnellen.net/cyberenglish/__ • Dawn Hogue • www.mshogue.com__ • Pat Schultz • Cybercomp__
CyberEnglish Tenets • Make it Public • Students publish work • Peer Review • Editing process is continual • Pass it on • Share student work with others
How is it taught • Teacher web site • Policies • Assignment instructions • Poetry_ • Web integrated resources for teacher and student (Ex: Purdue Owl__) • Virtual Filing Cabinet: assignments, handouts, etc. • Parkway Moodle_
Student Created Work • Personal Web Pages • html • Adobe Dreamweaver • Microsoft FrontPage • NVU – Free html editor • Webfolio • Blogs
Course Content Integration • Interactive instructional sites • Purdue Online Writing Lab • Online texts available • Online resources • Textbook company sites • Publish work online • Collaboration
Benefits • Environmental • Work load • Improvement in writing skills • Audience • Hypertext writing • Connections • Development on non-linear thinking
Benefits (cont.) • Technology Skills • Web • E-mail • Word Processing • HTML • Diversify instruction • Communication
Email Yahoo Gmail Hotmail Gaggle Wikis Pbwiki Wikispaces Blogs Learnerblogs.org Edublogs.org Blogger 21publish 21class.com Other Tools Moodle Elgg United Streaming Bloglines Free Tools
Needs • Administrator support • Student Computers • Basic knowledge of schools network • AUP – Acceptable Use Policy • Email Access • Web Server for teacher and student websites • Support • Adventurous spirit
Examples • Keiarra • Solomon • Jahad • Symone • Melia • Brittany • http://bassclass.pbwiki.com • http://www.mrbassonline.com/cyberenglish/index.htm • http://www.mrbassonline.com/examples.htm
Questions wbass@pkwy.k12.mo.us http://www.mrbassonline.com http://www.pkwy.k12.mo.us/tishomepage