CW2001 Program - Computers and Writing

3:45 — 5:00 Session D.3
Electronic Communication Across the Community:
Service Learning and Technological Literacy
RB 112
Judi Kirkpatrick, moderator
Jonathan Alexander
Text/Context/Community: The Politics of Combining Service Learning
and Web Publishing in First-Year Writing Courses
I explore what happens pedagogically when we combine both service
learning and Web publication in a first-year writing course in which
students (1) participate in a service learning project involving victims of
AIDS and (2) produce a collaborative Webtext about their experiences.
I discuss how experiential knowledge is used to construct Webspace
that, from the start, seeks communal and even political intervention.
Christopher Dean
A Country OWL Visits the City:
A Tale of Service-Learning and Technology
I talk about the practical concerns of using a low-end technology, such
as an email-based OWL, to do service-learning work, and I also talk
about the sort of philosophical, pedagogical, and theoretical work that
is involved in using low-end technology to facilitate service-learning
praxis and theory.
Dennis Lynch
Is This Service Learning
I discuss a new educational program, called Engineering Enterprise, that
has been taking shape on various engineering campuses around the
country, and about which I ask the question, is this service learning
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