Innovative Uses of Technology for the Language Arts Classroom

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Innovative Uses of Technology for the Language
Arts Classroom

• Miriam Fisch

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Don't Feel Distraught! There are innovative uses.
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Use Technology

• To energize students
• To engage students
• To excite students

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Evaluations of educational technology are
really evaluations of instruction enabled by
technology. Journal of Instructional
Psychology
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Using Technology in Creative Writing

• Students create stories with hypertext Ma
  rgo looked in her purse.

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Benefits of Using Hypertext.

• Develop ideas in-depth
• Stress attention to detail
• Use colorful language
• Explore multiple character perspectives -Engl
  ish Journal

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This is what happens when wereview writing
skills
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Why not try this interactive website?www.senior
.billings.k12.mt.us/6traits

• View strong/ weak papers
• Practice revising online papers
• Review and respond to rubrics
• from Learning and Leading with
  Technology

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Benefits of interactive revision

• Students move at their own pace
• Students practice revising
• Active participation Learning and Leading
  with Technology

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Online Book Discussion Benefits

• Facilitates participation from shy people.
• Provides time for people to formulate thoughts
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Work Cited
Bradley, Michelle. The Book Clique creating
and running a book discussion group
online. Public Libraries 39 (2000)244-5 Gardine
r, Steve. Teaming up to integrate technology
into a writing lesson. Learning and
Leading with Technology. 28 (2000)22-7 Kellen,
Katherine. Expanding Our Reach HTML commands
to create student hypertext writing
projects.English Journal January. 2000
122-124