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  • NEW Writing, Thinking, Technology (laptops required)

    (December 4 – December 6, 2009)

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    This new version of Writing and Thinking explores different ways of using technology to enrich students’ understanding of the composing process, to foster collaboration, and to stimulate critical thinking. Activities include:

    • Close reading and annotation conducted digitally and collaboratively
    • Online research in the composing process and working together on a common text in a networked classroom
    • Working with digital "post-it notes" and comment boxes
    • Digital text rendering--recording and looping readings with the visual depiction of a text
    • Writing a collective essay on screen

    Participants also read and respond to texts that present the case for and against the uses of technology in the writing class and web-based learning spaces and chat rooms.