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    SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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    EDUCATION
    383-3
    SPECIAL TOPIC: WRITING IN THE ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM
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    (E1.00)
    Spring Semester, 1991
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    Instructor: Trevor Owen
    (January 6 - April 3)
    PREREQUISITE:
    Educ. 4011402.
    DESCRIPTION
    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
    program, which has been operating at Simon Fraser University
    since 1988.
    Given the time of this intersession course, it may also be possible for students to participate
    in
    WIRED.WRITERS,
    the 1992
    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 our own learning, working collaboratively in online conference groups.
    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.
    U06111301; 1 1 - I
    Mindweave: Communication, Computers and Distance Education
    R. Mason and A. Kay
    (Eds.), Oxford: Pergamon Press. ISBN 0-080-037755-6.
    New-Voices,
    Writer in Electronic Residence project, SFU, 1989
    Wired. Writers,
    Writer in Electronic Residence project, SFU, 1990
    Wired.Writers,
    Writer in Electronic Residence project, SFU, 1991
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    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, Robert J.
    Sawyer and others.
    It is recommended that students consider taking 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., More Than Words Can Say: Personal Perspectives on Literacy.
    Woolf, Virginia, A Room of One's Own.
    STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS
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    EXPECTATIONS
    50% Participation in computer conferencing activities
    25%. Writing Folder (a kind of electronic portfolio containing any writing you do in
    response to the course & papers developed collaboratively in the computer
    conference.)
    25% A plan to implement language-based telecommunications into the curriculum of
    your classroom, school and/or district.

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