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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 436 787 CS 216 971 AUTHOR Gruber, Sibylle, Ed. TITLE Weaving a Virtual Web: Practical Approaches to New Information Technologies. INSTITUTION National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL. ISBN ISBN-0-8141-5649-5 PUB DATE 2000-00-00 NOTE 353p. AVAILABLE FROM National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 14. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096 (Stock No. 56495-3050: $19.95 members, $26.95 nonmembers). Tel: 800-369-6283 (Toll Free)T Web site: <http://www.ncte.org>. PUB TYPE Books (010)-- Collected Works - General (020) Guides Non- Classroom (055) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC15 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Audience Awareness; Cooperative Learning; Elementary Secondary Education; *English Instruction; *English Teacher Education; Hypermedia; *Language Arts; *Research Skills; *World Wide Web; *Writing Instruction; Writing Skills ABSTRACT With sections on using the Web to plan and structure courses, conduct research, and publish student work, as well as a reference essay that reviews Web sites for educators and students, this book reveals the rich variety of ways in which this technology can be used by English and language arts teachers at all levels. The 20 essays in the book explore a broad range of topics, including how the Web increases students' ownership of their learning and promotes empowerment; how technology affects the messages people send and receive; how the Web facilitates communication; and how the Web helps students focus on the concept of audience. After a foreword, preface, and introduction, essays in the book are: (1) "When Media Collide" (David Gillette); (2) "Encountering Hypertext Technology: Student Engineers Analyze and Construct Web Pages"(J. D. Applen); (3) "Preparing Future Teachers of English to Use the Web: Balancing the Technical with the Pedagogical" (Larry Beason); (4) "The Creation Project" (Emily Golson and Eric Sagel); (5) "Can Anybody Play? Using the World Wide Web to Develop Multidisciplinary Research and Writing Skills" (Elizabeth Sommers); (6) "Surfing the Net: Getting Middle School Students Excited about Research and Writing" (Jean Boreen); (7) "Foreign Language Resources on the Web: Cultural and Communicative Wealth on the Wires" (Jean W. LeLoup and Robert Ponterio); (8) "Building a Web for Literacy Instruction"' (Sarah Rilling and Eniko Csomay); (9) "Changing Writing/Changing Writers: The World Wide Web and Collaborative Inquiry in the Classroom" (Patricia R. Webb);(10) "Using the Web to Create an Interdisciplinary Tool for Teaching" (Aijun Anna Li and Margery D. Osborne);(11) "Alewives" (Katherine M. Fischer);(12) "Writing Images: Using the World Wide Web in a Digital Photography Class" (Anne Frances Wysocki);(13) "From Castles in the Air to Portfolios in Cyberspace: Building Community Ethos in First-Year Rhetoric and Composition" (Elizabeth Burow-Flak); (14)"Living Texts on the Web: A Return to the Rhetorical Arts of Annotation and Commonplace" (Dean Rehberger);(15) "Students as Builders of Virtual Worlds: Creating a Classroom Intranet" (Douglas Eyman);(16) "Using the Web for High School Student Writers" (Ted Nellen); (17) "Systems Analysis and Design Projects: Integrating Communities and Skills through the Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Web" (Joy L. Egbert and Leonard M. Jessup); (18)"Nobody, Which Means Anybody: Audience on the World Wide Web" (Catherine F. Smith);(19) "Donut Shoppes and Tea Rooms: Getting in the MOO(d) for Hypertext" (Mick Doherty and Sandye Thompson); and (20)"The Craft of Teaching and the World Wide Web: A Reference Essay for Educators" (Kevin M. Leander). 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Og lan, Helen Poole, Karen Smith, Chair, ex officio, Michael Greer, ex officio Weaving a Virtual Web Practical Approaches to New Information Technologies Edited by Sibyl le Gruber Northern Arizona University National Council of Teachers of English 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, Illinois 61801-1096 Staff Editor: Kurt Austin Interior Design: Doug Burnett Cover Design: Carlton Bruett NCTE Stock Number: 56495-3050 ©2000 by the National Council of Teachers of English. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. It is the policy of NCTE in its journals and other publications to provide a fo- rum for the open discussion of ideas concerning the content and the teaching of English and the language arts. Publicity accorded to any particular point of view does not imply endorsement by the Executive Committee, the Board of Directors, or the membership at large, except in announcements of policy, where such endorsement is clearly specified. Every effort has been made to provide current URLs and e-mail addresses, but because of the rapidly changing nature of the Web, some sites and addresses may no longer be accessible. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Weaving a virtual Web: practical approaches to new information technologies/edited by Sibyl le Gruber. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8141-5649-5 1. English philologyStudy and teachingTechnological innovations. 2. World Wide Web (Information retrieval system)Study and teaching. 3. Language artsComputer-assisted instruction. 4. Information technologyStudy and teaching. 5. Educational innovations. I. Gruber, Sibylle. PE66.W43 1999 808'.042'0285dc21 99-049330 Contents Foreword ix Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe Preface xv Introduction: Hypermedia Technologies for the Classroom xvii Sibylle Gruber I. Planning and Structuring Web-Enhanced Courses 1. When Media Collide 3 David Gillette 2. Encountering Hypertext Technology: Student Engineers Analyze and Construct Web Pages 14 J. D. Applen 3. Preparing Future Teachers of English to Use the Web: Balancing the Technical with the Pedagogical 25 Larry Beason 4. The Creation Project 43 Emily Golson and Eric Sagel II. Encouraging Research on and with the Web 5. Can Anybody Play? Using the World Wide Web to Develop Multidisciplinary Research and Writing Skills 59 Elizabeth Sommers 6. Surfing the Net: Getting Middle School Students Excited about Research and Writing 78 Jean Boreen 7. Foreign Language Resources on the Web: Cultural and Communicative Wealth on the Wires 91 Jean W. LeLoup and Robert Ponterio 8. Building a Web for Literacy Instruction 103 Sarah Rilling and Enikii Csomay vi Contents III. Supporting Collaboration and Interaction 9. Changing Writing/Changing Writers: The WorldWide Web and Collaborative Inquiry in the Classroom 123 Patricia R. Webb 10. Using the Web to Create an Interdisciplinary Tool for Teaching 137 Aijun Anna Li and Margery D. Osborne 11. Alewives 146 Katherine M. Fischer 12. Writing Images: Using the World Wide Web ina Digital Photography Class 161 Anne Frances Wysocki 13. From Castles in the Air to Portfolios in Cyberspace: Building Community Ethos in First-Year Rhetoric and Composition 176 Elizabeth Burow-Flak IV. Publishing on the Web 14. Living Texts on the Web: A Return to the RhetoricalArts of Annotation and Commonplace 193 Dean Rehberger 15. Students as Builders of Virtual Worlds: Creatinga Classroom Intranet 207 Douglas Eyman 16. Using the Web for High School Student Writers 219 Ted Nellen 17. Systems Analysis and Design Projects: Integrating Communities and Skills through the Web 226 Joy L. Egbert and Leonard M. Jessup 18. Nobody, Which Means Anybody: Audienceon the World Wide Web 239 Catherine F. Smith 19. Donut Shoppes and Tea Rooms: Getting in theMOO(d) for Hypertext 250 Mick Doherty and Sandye Thompson 8 Contents vii V. Resource Appendix 20. The Craft of Teaching and the World Wide Web:A Reference Essay for Educators 279 Kevin M. Leander Index 305 Editor 319 Contributors 321 9 ix Foreword Gail E. Hawisher University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Cynthia L. Selfe Michigan Technological University Weaving a Virtual Web: Practical Approaches to New Information Tech- nologies will prove an exceptional volume of essays. While it ostensibly demonstrates how instructors can use the Web ef- fectively in the day-to-day business of teaching, it also grounds itself deeply in the theory and pedagogy that have revolutionized writing and literacy instruction over the past few decades. Taking information tech- nologies into its field of vision, however, this book goes several steps further: it persistently looks to the future and to the important theoreti- cal questions of just what constitutes literacy and the teaching of literacy in the new millennium. Highly practical, as the volume's subtitle im- plies, the essays within explore the many ways in which the new online space of the Web can abet teaching and learning. But they do so with a sophisticated understanding of the many complexities that attend lit- eracy, always recognizing that the term itself is fraught with difficul- ties, its power more often than not elusive to those who pursue it. If there is one underlying theme in the volume, it is that although the many meanings of literacywith and without technologycon- tinue to evolve, the term never denotes simply a skill or set of skills that can be automatically transferred to online environments or that autono- mously ensures prosperity and success in educational or social situa- tions. As teachers of literacyand as two English professionals who have been working with computers and composition for almost twenty yearswe have not always been so smart about the complicated rela- tionship attending literacy and computers.