Electronic Networks: Crossing Boundaries/Creating Communities

by Howard, Tharon

• ISBN13: 9780867094541
• ISBN10: 0867094540
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-11
• Publisher: Heinemann

Summary

In spite of all the hype about the Internet and the ways networks are changing the face of education, there is surprisingly little information of pragmatic value to teachers. This book addresses that problem head on.Electronic Networks is a book written by practicing classroom teachers about actual instructional computing projects in real classrooms. Rather than talk about "the classroom of the future," the authors provide the help teachers need to integrate instructional technologies in their classrooms. They do so by addressing the real problems and real successes of teaching in networked environments.One way to read this book is to look for specific conditions and activities that ensure success with computers. Taken as a whole, the book is an argument for building a human infrastructure at the same pace we are installing computers and writing; for developing effective ways to assess whether students are truly benefiting from technology; and for addressing issues of equitable use.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Dixie Goswami
Tharon Howard
Acknowledgments	xiii
I NEW TOOLS FOR THE CLASSROOM: AN INTRODUCTION TO NETWORKED LEARNING
Getting Started in a Networked Writing Classroom: Projects and Resources	1	(21)
Susan Hilligoss
A Brief, Selective, and Idiosyncratic History of Computers	22	(29)
John F. Barber
The World Wide Web: Driving on the Information Superhighway in the Classroom	51	(17)
Donna Ashmus
Hypermedia and the Future of Networked Composition: Inter/Disciplining Our ``Selves''	68	(26)
Tharon Howard
Jane Perkins
II STUDENTS AT WORK: USING THE TOOLS TO CREATE COMMUNITY
Webbing the Universe of Science Fiction	94	(18)
Elisa Kay Sparks
Beet Farmers, Bombs from Baghdad, and the Northern Lights: Crossing Cultures, Sharing Stories	112	(21)
Anna Citrino
Brian Gentry
Our Way or the Highway? Perceptions of Self and Other on the Electronic Frontier	133	(18)
Tom McKenna with
Robert Baroz
Reflective Voices: Constructing Meaning in the USjApanLINK Project	151	(9)
Kurt Caswell
Douglas E. Wood
Using Computer Conferencing to Extend the Bounds of the Writing Curriculum: Or, How I Quit the Symphony and Joined a Jazz Band	160	(21)
Claire Bateman
Chris Benson
III CROSSING BOUNDARIES: INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY
Walking in Many Worlds	181	(5)
Lucy Maddox
Rural Teachers and Students: Connecting and Communicating	186	(7)
Rocky Gooch
A School at the Crossroads of the Ancient and the Contemporary	193	(12)
Philip Sittnick
Reflections on Cross-Age Collaboration: Networking College and High School Students	205	(20)
Wayne M. Butler
Making Technology Count: Incentives, Rewards, and Evaluations	225	(15)
Rebecca J. Rickly
Contributors	240