The World Wide Web -

Insisting that the Writing Classroom Get Involved in School Reform

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Presentation made at:

Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of English/Language Arts
Erie, PA - October 18, 1996

Western Pennsylvania Writing Workshop
University of Pittsburgh, Pgh. PA - November 9, 1996

Mario Zinga



Background

Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh is a National Science Foundation testbed. Its goal is to investigate the introduction of wide-area-networks, the Internet, into the K12 environment.

An Initiative

3Rivers Poetry Forum an online forum for teachers and students.

Writing Resources on the WWW

Using the World Wide Web in the English/Writing Classroom a collection of resources for the English and Writing classroom.

The Next Step - Online Workshopping

Using the technology of the Internet for real-time distance workshopping.



What have we learned .....

Using Instructional Technology as a Cattle Prod for School Reform If we're serious about using the potential of the Internet for writing and publishing, then we have to become advocates and soldiers and insist on school reform.





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