Part two of a two part interview with Dr. Susan Antlitz aired on Saturday, March 1 on WMWK FM. Antlitz, the Community Issues program host, is also a writing instructor at Joliet Junior College.
In this episode:
- hypertext
- how I got started in CyberEnglish
- helping students become citizens of the Web
- 21st century technology, including Blogs and Wikis
- why students are more engaged in a CE class
2 responses so far ↓
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» NCTE’s “Shift” BlogWalker
// Mar 2, 2008 at 11:32 am
[...] Highway) has to offer. To name just a few: Dawn Hogue (who has just posted to her Polywog blog her second interview on CyberEnglish; Ted Nellen, whose posts to NCTE Talkies are always gems; and Bud Hunt, also a NWP colleague, whose [...]
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Jessica Brogley
// Mar 2, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Nice radio show Dawn. I agree about CE offering time for kids to think, whereas the traditional classroom is more spontaneous (this creates tension for most teens). I’ve had the same experience with kids telling each other, their parents, other teachers, and myself that they’re always on the computer in my class. My students are better writers by the end of the year than other years. Some day CE will be the traditional classroom! It’s natural for our kids today - how can we ignore that?!
I’ve experiences several hurdles along the way, some of which I don’t jump over very well. One: Finding an authentic audience for all those blogs. Finding our blogs would be like finding a needle in a hay stack. Two: Finding time to read them all. The kids will blog all day long and they’ll post multiple times. The volume of reading on my part and exploded! We have Moodle as well and I LOVE it, but it is lacking the truly public feature. We also have blogs at Blogger and Learnerblogs. I’m trying to figure this all out!
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