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EDUCATION 383-4

SPECIAL TOPIC:

Intersession, 1991

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PREREQUISiTE:

Permission of Instructor. Educ. 401/2 or equivalent.

DESCRIPTION OF COURSE:

WRITING IN THE ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM

will explore the impact of

telecommunications on the writing process, the experience of written

interaction both online and in the classroom, and the role of reflection in

written expression in projects such as the

Writer in Electronic

Residence

University since 1988.

Given the time of this intersession course, it may also be possible for

students to participate in

WIRED.WRITERS,

the 1991

Writer in Electronic

Residence

project.

OBJECTiVES:

This course will be undertaken electronically, using telecommunications to

link participants throughout the province. Students will examine several

online writing projects and consider the impact of telecommunications on

the writing process, classroom interaction, and the use of original student

writing as reading material in existing English and Language Arts

programs. We will also use telecommunications technology to undertake

Accordingly, there are two objectives for this course:

(1)

to consider the medium of telecommunications as an instrument of

language-learning, both for our students and ourselves; and,

(2)

to develop models of implementation appropriate to our own

classrooms and school districts.

Students will require access to a computer with word-processing and

telecommunications software, and a 1200 or 2400 baud modem. Access

to a printer is highly recommended. Previous computer experience is

not required, but participants will be expected to be able to use their

equipment for the course.

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REQUIRED READINGS:

Mindweave: Communication, Computers and Distance Education

R. Mason

and A. Kay (Eds.), Oxford: Pergamon Press. ISBN 0-080-037755-6

Electro-Poets,

Writer in Electronic Residence project, SFU, 1988

New-Voices,

Writer in Electronic Residence project, SFU, 1989

Wired. Writers,

Writer in Electronic Residence project, SFU, 1990

A collection of journals and readings will be available from the

instructor in either print or electronic versions. Participants in this

course will also be asked to contribute student publications from their

own schools that feature original student writing.

RECOMMENDED READINGS:

Any of the works by Canadian writers participating in the Writer in

Electronic Residence programs: Lorna Crozier, Katherine Govier,

Lionel Kearns, Crawford Kilian, Emily Hearn, David McFadden, Susan

Musgrave, Daniel Poliquin, Rick Salutin and Robert J. Sawyer.

Students will also be asked to take out a one-year subscription to

The

Computing Teacher,

and

T.I.E.

(Telecommunications in Education)

News,

ISTE, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

Frye, Northrop,

The Educated Imagination

MacNeil, Robert,

Wordstruck

Knowlton Nash, et al.,

Perspectives on Literacy

Woolf, Virginia,

A Room of One's Own

STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS AND EXPECTATIONS:

50% Participation in computer conferencing activities

25% Writing Folder (including a research paper developed collaboratively

in the computer conference, and a portfolio of professional writing,

which includes contributions to the computer conferences)

25% A plan to implement language-based telecommunications into the