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Artifact #1 - Proposal for a Technology Workshop

Tricks of the Trade: Infusing Technology in the Middle School Writing Process  

There is no better tool to help your students become better writers than technology. You will learn how to use technology throughout the writing process to increase the quality of your students’ work.  This workshop will help a teacher explore all of the uses of technology for the writing process, including concept-mapping software, digital editing, and online publishing.

Presenter: Erica Hartman, Sparta Middle School

Presenter Background & Qualifications:

6th grade Language Arts Teacher

Pursuing Master’s in Educational Technology at New Jersey City University

Member of Sparta Middle School Software Committee

Member of Phase One IDE Problem Based Learning Group

 

Prerequisites: None – Please bring a sample of one of your student’s writing and/or a writing unit of your own

 

Date:

Tuesday October 11, 2004

Location:

Sparta Middle School Computer Lab

Time:

3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Level:

Teachers of Grades 6-8

 

NETS•Students:

1- 4

NETS•Teachers

I- VI

 

Special Emphases:

Writing Process, Concept Mapping, Higher-Order Applications of Technology, Digital Publishing

Keywords:

Collaboratory, writing process, Inspiration, Smartboard, Microsoft Office,

E-mail:

erica_hartman1@hotmail.com

Objectives:


1. Identify the steps of the writing process
 
2. Effectively use Inspiration in the brainstorming/pre-writing steps.

3. Effectively use A Smartboard in the proofreading, revising, and editing steps.

4. Effectively use Microsoft Office and the world wide web in the publishing step

4. Allow participants to utilize projects and activities in their classrooms

 Higher-Order Applications of Technology:

Students must master keyboarding skills, become familiar with various software applications including Inspiration and Microsoft Office, and be able to navigate through the Internet in order to successfully complete assignments.

Outline:
  1. Review the steps of the writing process.
  2. Using the topic of “Halloween”, have teachers create a web on Inspiration complete with graphics and show them how to use the “outline” feature. Note how students can attach graphics and colors to their ideas.
  3. Using Microsoft Word, have teachers either write mock rough draft of a Halloween story or use a student’s writing sample.
  4. Emphasize the use of “inserting comments” in Microsoft Word and the power they have to convey constructive criticism.
  5. Using a Smartboard and an LCD projector, pull up a sample of prose. Using “Tools” in Microsoft Word, the writer can instruct the computer to check for particular spelling and grammar errors. Certain grammar errors can be targeted, such as capitalization and punctuation. Emphasize how teachers can use the Smartboard to peer review “anonymous” prose
  6. Using the list below, pick one site to publish the finished prose on.

Online Resources:

Click here to go to the Inspiration Web Site and download a trial copy of the software.

http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/

http://www.writersarea.com/

http://www.cyberkids.com/cw/

http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech042.shtml

http://www.geocities.com/phsmedia/pub.html

 

 

 

 

 

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