Today, computer use is viewed from a functional perspective; do mundane tasks more efficiently i.e. word processing, more appealing visual presentations. Technology should be viewed as part of our culture; related to Zittrain’s generativity concept. The computer, PC, and Internet…
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Power Down Folks!
by lminnis209 • • 1 Comment
I read Ellen Seiter’s article about computer usage in the classroom and I could not argue with anything the women says I really agree with what she puts forth as a huge gap in education today. The fact that we…
Electronic Portfolio
by rhetdezigner • • 0 Comments
http://rhetdezigner.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/electronic-portfolio.pdf or here is the link to the CSTAN page http://www.csustan.edu/agstudies/internships.html
Scouting Report: Project Gutenberg
by kmontero • • 0 Comments
Although this report involved a minimal amount of scouting, the archive I discovered this past year is and has been revolutionizing internet users’ access to literature on the web. After thoroughly exploring the site and personally utilizing it for the…
Pianos and Computers–What’s the Real Game Here?
by Anne Engert • • 0 Comments
As I read Ellen Sieter’s article “Practicing at Home: Computers, Pianos, and Cultural Capital,” I found myself having trouble with her arguments on several levels—beginning with the analogy she draws between the current push for schools to teach computer literacy…
Using Blogs in the Classroom
by Ryan • • 1 Comment
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have defined literacy as “the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, compute and use printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.” They go on to say that “literacy involves…
Friend sites: How to express hatred without words
by Mariana • • 0 Comments
It’s funny that Kim posted these videos about the social problems that leak from the digital world into the real world through websites like Facebook because just this week one of my friends on Facebook posted this: For those of…
Scouting Report: ESL Class blog
by Mariana • • 0 Comments
In the field of ESL teaching, the four skills (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) are what are considered to be key components in achieving fluency in a language. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have drafted a…
The Journey to Literacy: Taking A Virtual Voyage
by Anne Engert • • 0 Comments
Educators from pre-school to university are concerned these days with computer literacy. And no wonder, since computers have become an unavoidable feature of modern life, both in the business world and on the personal level. Computer literacy today is as…
To Blog or Not to Blog, That is the Question
by Mike • • 1 Comment
The title may sound corny, but the topic (Using Blogs in the Composition Classroom) is worth reading about. What are blogs and how can they be utilized in the composition classroom? This is the question I will explore in my…