Tuesday, June 10, 2003

Teaching English at Holderness / Technology Conversation   Some of the tools we can use in our teaching, the same tools we want our kids to know how to exploit in their learning, are becoming swankier all the time. Some of the ways we use these tools will enhance our kid’s learning, and some may turn out to be silly. However, the capabilities of these tools, while part of our focus at the moment, is not the point of our work together. Improving our teaching and learning is! So, take a minute and reflect on what you’ve seen and done here, and comment on one or two ideas you think are worth pursuing (though not necessarily by you), and why. After initial posting, we’ll read each others’ comments and respond.   Write in Word, then cut and paste your work into the comment section below. -- PJC 12:39:08 PM    comment []

	Monday, June 09, 2003

The Holderness School English Department Technology Session   June 10, 2003 – Patrick J. Clements                  (red or underlined sections below are live links)   Goals To show some work by a regular teacher that colleagues at Holderness can examine, reinvent, reject, or otherwise use to help grow as teachers. To join in the conversation about how best to work as teachers for these kids.  Three Threads Receiving, marking, and returning students’ work electronically Publishing students’ work – intramurally and externally Discussion and electronic conversation – changing the nature of discourse 1. Responding to Student Writing – Mechanics                 Receiving MSWord documents as e-mail attachments                                 Save messages & files. Create a naming pattern beforehand.                 Responding:                                 MS Word ‘s “Reviewing” Tools                                                 Click: View / Toolbars / Reviewing.                                                 “Track Changes” &  “Comments”                                                 Toggle between Viewing text in “Normal” or “Print Layout”                                 “Save As” in new folder or w/ altered name.                 Returning:             Send as e-mail Attachment                 Benefits:                Difference in time / form / archiving / handwriting…                                                 See Dean Sluyter at the Pingry School, NJ (www.pingry.org)                 Sample:                  Examine and do.   2. Publishing Students’ Work --  Formally and Informally                 On line at school                                 At Holderness: who and how?                                 Intramurally at Peddie:                                                 Principio, 1994-2001 – Students’ Work                                                                 Sample: Lauren Bonilla’s “Portfolio”                                                                                                                Peter Kraft’s History Essays                                                                                                              Sample: Jannely Almonte’s “Women in Bondage”                                                 PJC 2002 Literature of Travel Students’ Work                                                                 On “Weblogs” and other new inventions. Easily done.                                 http://radio.weblogs.com/0119709/                                 PJC and Spring 2003                                                                 Beyond – yikes!   3. On-line Discourse: Seminars and the Nature of Discourse                                 PJC samples                                 PJClements' English 11 Syllabus,                                 A conversation on Paul Watkins’ Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn                                 An on-line chat on The Scarlet Letter                                 Tools:                                                 NetMeeting, Instant Messanger (synchronous)                                                 Weblogs (asynchronous)                                                 Many databases (asynchronous but nested, yet no text)                                                 Webbed Resources: 9:36:34 AM    comment []

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