CW2001 Program - Computers and Writing

10:00 — 11:30 Session G.4
Online Course Development:
What’s Out There What Do We Do With It Why
RB 292
Tyra Pickering, moderator
Terry Tannacito
Teaching Professional Writing Online with Electronic Response
In my presentation, I share not only examples of beneficial
electronic peer responses but also details on my preparation of
the groups and the dynamics of the groups that created those
beneficial responses. My experience convinced me that online
professional writing courses, although increasing for primarily
practical reasons, offer important opportunities to improve our
students’ writing through electronic response.
Marc Wilson
Taking What We Know to the ‘Net:
An Interactive Session on Creating Internet-Mediated Classes
I focus on how to build and nurture a student centered, interactive
learning environment in an Internet-mediated composition course. The
session starts with a quick overview of some of the tools available to
Internet classes. Following this, participants collaborate in identifying key
characteristics of student-centered teaching that they wish to focus on.
Paul Amore
Of Butterfly Ballots, Paideia, and the Idea of a University-in-a-Box
This presentation reviews various historical theories of rhetorical
education and the design strategies they offer as evidence and a
recommendation for this technological shift in the emphasis of rhetoric.
By offering a practical critique of Blackboard.com and WebCT, two
popular Web interfaces in their nascent stages as universities-in-a-box,
the talk demonstrates the benefits of this approach.
Charles Lowe
Open Source:
A Model for Resisting Current Notions of Copyright
The U.S. passed new, more stringent copyright laws at the close of the
twentieth century which undermine fair use and extend copyright terms.
Yet, an examination of the open source copyleft movement suggests an
alternative: make information easily available for everyone and protect
that availability under existing copyright law.
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