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"Multiculturalism"
Jula
Online forum on
the influence and impact of multiculturalism
in the field of children’s
literature. Discussion Archive
Multiculturalism -- the Endless Debate. Mail forum,
Articles, Reading Room, Authors &
Illustrators, Links, Dragons, Book Reviews,
Lists, Lewis Carroll.
A comprehensive
network of aboriginal Links covering various
fields of education:
teaching, learning, assessment, classroom
management, curriculum Resources, Library
Resources, multiculturalism, Reading/Writing.
Here are some
great links to other Multicultural Web Sites,
which links to multicultural studies
all over the world, covering a wide range of
issues like racism,
children’s lit, multicultural education,
and multicultural writing. Some of these sites are also
general educational resources.
Book Link is a
book distributor that specializes in ESL and
multicultural books, the books they sell
include British books, ESL books, and
Multicultural books. It also has
multicultural links.
"Technology in the
Writing Classroom"
Kelly
Satterwhite
- Barker,
Thomas T., and Fred O. Kemp.
"Network Theory: A Postmodern
Pedagogy for the Writing Classroom."
Computers and Community:
Teaching Composition in the Twenty-First
Century. Ed. Carolyn Handa.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Boynton
Cook, 1990.
This essay
stresses the need for changes in the writing
classroom. Barker and Kemp believe that
writing pedagogy has not changed with today's
students, who are much different than the
students of the past. The authors
explain the importance of creating a new
writing pedagogy that includes the use of
computers in the writing classroom.
- Moran,
Charles. "Computers and the Writing
Classroom: A Look to the
Future." Re-Imagining Computers
and Composition: Teaching and
Research in the Virtual Age. Ed. Gail
E. Hawisher and Paul LeBlanc. Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, 1992.
Charles Moran
argues that the traditional writing classroom
is not suited for writing students' needs. In
this essay, he explains the reasons why we
should re-evaluate the effectiveness of our
writing classrooms. Moran further explores
how writing classrooms can use computers to
benefit the writing process.
The University
of Missouri's extension teaching web page.
This class is offered entirely online.
Students participate through e-mail and
online conferencing. The instructor focuses
more on a student-centered classroom rather
than a teacher-centered
classroom.
A publication
that is published by Public Domain, a
non-profit collective based in Atlanta.
This site "explores the
connections between technology, art, theory,
and writing."
- Schroeder,
Eric, and John Boe. "Minimalism,
Populism, and Attitude
Transformation: Approaches to
Teaching Writing in Computer
Classrooms." Computers and
Community: Teaching
Composition in the Twenty-First Century.
Ed. Carolyn Handa. Portsmouth, New
Hampshire: Boynton Cook, 1990.
Schroeder and
Boe believe that writing teachers should
teach writing, not technology. They,
therefore, suggest a minimalist approach to
technology. Schroeder and Boe explain
that writing classes do not have to use
fancy, expensive computers and software to
serve their writing purposes. Instead,
teachers should choose computers and software
that benefit the students and
themselves. The computers and software
should not, and do not, have to take over the
writing in the classroom.
- Sommers,
Elizabeth. "Political Impediments to
Virtual Reality." Re-Imagining
Computers and Composition: Teaching
and Research in the Virtual Age. Ed.
Gail E. Hawisher and Paul LeBlanc.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1992.
Sommers
believes "we are in a crucial
transformational stage as our culture moves
towards virtual reality and we should be
leaders in shaping this new text validity,
but politics are preventing us from doing
so." This essay examines the problems
with training writing teachers in computers
as well as writing pedagogy. In
addition, Sommers gives possible solutions to
these problems.
The site for a
college writing course that combines both the
traditional writing course and the online
writing course. Students will be
expected to attend some classes in the
traditional classroom, as well as to
participate in online discussions. In
addition, students will learn about writing
through various projects, including web
projects.
A paper written
by Finn Bostad, faculty of Arts and Science
at The Norwegian University of Science and
Technology. Bostad questions,
"what happens to writing when texts in
'a world on paper' are replaced by messages
in 'virtual space?' " He claims that
"all writing is applying some technology
in the process of organizing, storing and
presenting information.
"The Integration of
Technology and the Writing Class"
Christy
Shannon
An interview
with he director of the Writing Across
the Curriculum program at Eastern Illinois
University. Dr. Calendrillo employs several
types of technology in her writing courses.
This website
discusses technology as a provider of
audience and a provider of a new medium of
publishing. It also gives lists of several
writing resources.
- ENG 4950
Class. Personal interview. 4 March 1999.
Students in
this class discussed the advantages and
drawbacks they encounter when technology is
integrated into the writing courses the are
taking.
- Ford, Kathy.
"Computer Assisted Instruction and
the Basic Writer." Thesis. Eastern
Illinois University, 1995.
This thesis
outlines ways in which instructors can use
technology to aid basic writers and gives
examples of several programs available to
writing instructors.
- Holdstein,
Deborah H. "Review: Technology,
Utility, and Amnesia." College
English 57 (Sept. 1995): 587-98.
This article
advocates the use of technology in the
English department and points out that
technology does not have to replace
traditional forms of text.
This thesis
describes the "slow integration of
computer technologies in the composition
classroom" and focuses on how one way of
bringing hypertext to the writing classroom
works in practice.
- Swords,
Stephen. Personal interview. 2 March
1999.
An interview
with a writing instructor at Eastern Illinois
University. Dr. Swords uses a more
traditional format in his writing courses,
where students not only compose several
texts, but they also present them to their
peers in class.
This
instructional website describes how to set up
a technology-integrated classroom and it also
outlines uses of technology in different
types of writing classes, such as technical
writing and freshman composition.
This website
includes an article published in the International
Journal for Teachers of Writing which
describes one teacher's study of the effects
of changes in teaching environments upon the
teacher.
- Welch,
Kathleen E. "Electrifying Classical
Rhetoric: Ancient Media, Modern
Technology, and Contemporary
Composition." Journal of Advanced
Composition 10.1 (1990): 22-38.
This article
discusses the changing of audience in
relation to technology and the effect that
technology has had on the rhetoric of the
ancient Greeks, such as Plato and Gorgias.
- Williams,
Daniel E. "Authoring the Author:
Heroes and Geeks." Early American
Literature 30.3 (1995): 264-74.
This article
emphasizes the importance of writing and
composition getting involved in the
technological revolution so as to avoid being
left behind. It also points out many of the
advantages of using technology for
collaboration.
"Writing versus
Literature -- The Argument"
Shannon
Thomas
Freewriting
advice based upon the studies of Peter Elbow.
- Elbow, Peter.
"The War between Reading and
Writing--and How to End It." Critical
Theory and the Teaching of Literature:
Politics, Curriculum, Pedagogy.
Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1995.
Peter Elbow
addresses the battle between writing and
literature in college and university English
departments, focusing on four areas: (1)
"Sites of conflict between reading and
writing; (2) How reading is priviledged over
writing; (3) Benefits of ending this
priviledge; (4) Ways to end the war and
create a more productive interaction
between reading and writing" (270).
Peter Elbow on
Writing page for the Writing Center at the
Tidewater Community
College. Advice about writing from
Tidewater.
Link to the
English Department at Penn State. Penn State
has a lot of information about
different stages of composition, including a
composition handbook.
". . .
[N]early 1300 departments--over 1000 in the
U.S. alone."
"A growing
list of English Department Pages, ranging
from dull to inspired, from catalog entries
to massive personal efforts, and from almost
empty to extraordinarily
full." Surf through some of these links
to observe how English departments from around
the world understand the battle between
literature and writing. Observe how
they organize their departments: Do place
both composition and literature under the
umbrella of English? Or do they separate the
two?
This site
offers some questions, comments, and things
to think about when considering the whole
idea of how and what students should be
writing, student comprehension about what
they read, and other things that make an
instructor go
"Hmmm?" Read her comments. Think
about how and what we should be teaching our students.
- LaGuardia,
Dolores and Hans P. Guth. Introduction. American
Voices: Multicultural
Literacy and Critical Thinking.
Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Pub. Co., 1993. 1-25.
Textbook full
of multicultural readings. The book focuses
on ways to encourage students to think
critically and write about literature
completely and insightfully.
Email interview
with Matt Landrus of Lake Land College,
Mattoon, Illinois, addressing practices
within the composition and literature
classroom. His name is linked to his
homepage; "Email interview" is
linked to a copy of his answers to my
interview questions.
Email interview
with Scott Starbuck of Lake Land College,
Mattoon, Illinois, addressing practices
within the composition and literature
classroom. His name is linked to his
homepage; "Email interview" is
linked to a copy of the actual interview questions and
his answers.
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