Effective Uses of Technology Workshop

Effective Uses of Technology for Language Arts Educators
Summer 2001 Interactive and Collaborative Pedagogy Workshop
June 15-16, 2001
Georgia Southern University

Dr. Janice Walker, jwalker@georgiasouthern.edu
http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/~jwalker/
(912) 871-1327

Dr. Kim Ruebel, kruebel@georgiasouthern.edu
http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/~kruebel/
(912) 681-5236

Friday, June 15
10am-11am Orientation, COE 3153

11am-12:30pm Morning Module, COE 2167

Setting up email discussion lists (Janice Walker)

LAN-based
Internet-based
Netiquette guidelines

Ideas for the classroom (Kim Ruebel)

12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch

1:30pm-4pm Afternoon Module, COE 2167

Using synchronous communication forums (Janice Walker)

Local (i.e., DIWE)
Internet-based
Chat rooms and discussion boards
MOOs

List of resources (Kim Ruebel)

Saturday, June 16

10am-12:30pm Morning Module, COE 2167

Finding Reliable Information Sources (Kim Ruebel)

Evaluating Sources

Citation formats for online sources
Plagiarism and the Internet

12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch

1:30pm-3pm Afternoon Module, COE 2167

Best of the Best (Kim Ruebel)
Ideas for Sharing Writing (Janice Walker)

Word/WordPerfect comments & editing/tracking features
Strange ideas

"Build" an "essay" collaboratively in a MOO

Web projects

Workshop

3pm-4pm Workshop Wrap-Up, COE 3153

Resources and Readings

NCTE Standards for the English Language Arts, http://www.ncte.org/standards/standards.shtml
"Technology and the Face of Language Arts in the K-12 Classroom," Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments 5.1 (Spring 2000), http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/5.1/binder.html?coverweb.html
NCTE's TeacherFest Conference, http://www.ncte.org/teacherfest/
United Nation's CyberSchoolBus Global Teaching and Learning Project, http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/index.html
The Netoric Project's Tuesday Café, http://ORION.BSUVC.BSU.EDU/~gsiering/netoric/
TechRhet Discussion List, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TechRhet
Educause, http://www.educause.edu/
The Longman English Pages, http://www.awl.com/englishpages/
Microsoft Classroom Teacher Network, http://www.microsoft.com/education/mctn/
Pearson Learning Network, http://teachervision.com/index.html
Blue Web'N Learning Sites on the Web, http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/index.html
TeacherSites.Com, http://www.teachersites.com/
RESA Technology Planning and Funding, http://www.first-district.resa.k12.ga.us/techplanning/techplan.htm

Lesson Plan Sites:
CyberGuides for Literature, http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
Teachnet.Com, http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/langarts/index.html
AskERIC Lesson Plans, http://www.askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons/
Encarta Online Lesson Plans, http://encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/
Sample Book Ideas for Literature-Based Reading Enthusiasts, http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/yrca_samp.html

Literature Sites:
Resources for Language Arts and Reading Research, http://toread.com
Helping Children Overcome Reading Difficulties, http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/digests/d72.html
Index to Internet Sites: Children's and Young Adult's Authors & Illustrators, http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biochildhome.htm
Online Literary Criticism, http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
Childrenstory.com, http://www.childrenstory.com/tales/index.html
Books Every Child Should Read, http://www.homearts.com/depts/relat/bookintr.htm
Recommended Youth Reading, http://www.st-charles.lib.il.us/low/ythread.htm
English Literature, http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english.html
English Teacher's Web Site, http://www.mlc.vic.edu.au/english/
CyberTour: Edgar Allan Poe, http://dcls.org/x/archives/poe.html, http://gothic.net/poe, http://www.comnet.ca/~forrest/index.html
Mark Twain Resources on the WWW, http://marktwain.miningco.com
Walt Whitman's Notebooks, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wwhome.html
Lewis Carroll Home Page, http://www.lewiscarroll.org/carroll.html, http://www.rust.net/~kdonohue/aliceidx.html
Into the Wardrobe: The C.S. Lewis Web Site, http://cslewis.drzeus.net
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Searchable, http://tech-two.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/maryshel/maryshel.shtml
Treasure Island, http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/treasure/
The J.R.R. Tolkien Information Page, http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/relipper/tolkien/rootpage.html
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site, http://www.carolhurst.com
The Children's Literature Web Guide, http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
African Access Review, http://filemaker.mcps.k12.md.us/aad/
Asian American Literature, http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/asia.htm
Latino and Hispanic Images in Picture Books, http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/hispanic.html
Native American Images in Picture Books, http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/native.html
Native American Literature Units, http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/nativeamericans.html
Maurice Sendak, http://www.homearts.com/depts/relat/sendakf1.htm
R.L. Stine and the Goosebumps Series, http://place.scholastic.com/goosebumps/index.htm
Chris Van Allsburg, http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/allsburg.htm
My Little House on the Prairie Home Page, http://vvv.com/~jenslegg/
Myths and Fables from Around the World, http://www.afroam.org/children/myths/myths.html
A Collection of Poetry, http://eserver.org/poetry

Writing Sites:
CRAYON: CreAte Your Own Newspaper, http://crayon.net
KidNews, http://www.kidnews.com
Inkspot for Young Writers, http://www.inkspot.com/young/
The Writer's Workshop, Online Resources for Writers, http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/index.htm

Grammar Sites:
A.Word.A.Day, http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html
Online English Grammar, http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/
Vocabulary University, http://www.vocabulary.com
Word Play, http://www.wolinskyweb.com/word.htm
AltaVista Translation Service, http://world.altavista.com/r?F09

Virtual Field Trips:
National Civil Rights Museum, http://216.157.9.6/civilrights/
Virtual Field Trips Site, http://www.field-guides.com/
Yahoo's virtual field trips, http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Travel/Virtual_Field_Trips/
Geology Field Trips, http://www.uh.edu/~jbutler/anon/anontrips.html
Trips to Hawaii, http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/space/hawaii/virtual.field.trips.html
Volcanos, http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/kids/vrtrips.html
Vicki Blackwell's Virtual Field Trips, http://exit3.i-55.com/~vickib/vft.html
Surfaquarium, http://surfaquarium.com/virtual.htm
Virtual Tours of Museums and Factories, http://members.aol.com/mevft/
Online Field Trips, http://www.ibiblio.org/cisco/trips.html
More Online Field Trips, http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/
A sampling of all virtual field trips on the Web, http://homeschoolfaq.com/online_field_trips.htm

Ideas for Collaborative/Interactive Online Projects

Intercollegiate E-Democracy Project, http://www.trincoll.edu/prog/iedp/
United Nations CyberSchoolBus, http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/
Global Schoolhouse, http://www.gsn.org
Literature Circle Discussion Groups, http://www.LiteratureCircles.com
Intercultural Email Classroom Connections, http://www.iecc.org/

Peer Review and Online Writing Sites:

http://www.powa.org/
http://karn.wright.edu/~sg-ysu/
http://www.csuohio.edu/writingcenter/writproc.html
http://crayon.net
http://www.kidnews.com/
http://www.inkspot.com/young/
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/index.htm

Free Software Download & Courseware Sites

Course Management Sites:
Blackboard, http://www.blackboard.com/

WebCT: The Learning Hub, http://www.webct.com/english/home/

Classroom Connect, http://www2.classroom.com/

Nicenet's Internet Classroom Assistant, http://www.nicenet.org/

Daedalus Online, http://daedalus.pearsoned.com/index_main.htm

Free Web Site Hosting:

Homestead, http://www.homestead.com
Angelfire, http://www.angelfire.com

Create and Manage Your Own Free Discussion List:

Yahoo Groups, http://groups.yahoo.com/
The Core Rules of Netiquette, http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html

Viriginia Montecino's Computer-mediated Writing/Discussion/Groupware Web site, http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/platforms.htm

Workshops & Information on Synchronous Communication
MOOs, IRC, DIWE, etc., http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/~jwalker/tutorials/cte.html

Educational MOOs:

LinguaMOO, http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000/ (Encore Express Interface; no client needed)

ConnectionsMOO, telnet://connections.moo.mud.org:3333 (requires client) (See also Connections home page at http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~tari/connections)

Diversity University MOO, http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/moos/du.html (No client needed) (See also DU home page, http://www.duets.org/ or MOO Web gateway page at http://moo.duets.org:8000/)

DaMOO, http://damoo.csun.edu:8888 (Cup O Mud Interface; no client needed)

Steve Thorne's list of MUDs, MOOs, and MUSHes (including Foreign Language MOOs), http://www.itp.berkeley.edu/~thorne/MOO.html

Katherine Parrish's Site. See also her Web site on MOO Pedagogy for the K-12 classroom.

MOO Clients:

EnCore Xpress, http://lingua.utdallas.edu/encore/
Pueblo (MOO Client), http://www.slcc.edu/wc/pblo201.exe

Research and Documentation

Academic Resource Center Workshop on Finding and Evaluating Information, http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/~jwalker/tutorials/ARC.html
Classroom Tutorial on Evaluating Sources, http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/~jwalker/tutorials/eval.html

Search Engines:

Single Search Engines (search in ONE target area)

Meta Search Engines (usually search 10 single search engines at once)

Virtual Libraries

Search Directories

Specialized Search Engines

http://www.searchopolis.com/

Copyrights, Intellectual Property, and Plaigiarism
Intellectual Property in the Classroom, http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/papers/copyright/ipdummie.html

Plagiarism and detection sites:

"Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers," by Robert Harris. In Virtual Salt. Vers. 8 April 2001. http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm (10 June 2001).

Turnitin.com, http://www.turnitin.com
FindSame, http://www.findsame.com/
Plagiserve, http://www.plagiserve.com/

Documenting Sources:

Scott, Foresman Handbook Citation Manager (MLA, APA, CBE, & COS), http://longman.awl.com/sfh/citation.html
Columbia Guide to Online Style, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
NoodleTools.com, http://www.noodletools.com

Web Site Authoring
Creating a Web page with Netscape Composer, http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/~jwalker/tutorials/composer/
Ditto.com (A search engine to locate graphic images on the Internet), http://ditto.com

Last modified by J. Walker, 6 May 2005.