Quill

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Quill

• Reading and Writing with Microcomputers

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Quill

• Quill theory
• Functional learning environments

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Quill pedagogical goals

• Encourage writing for peers
• Develop writing skill in the context of
  meaningful communication with real audiences
• Encourage feedback from others
• Provide motivation to read the writing of others
• Facilitate revision
• Help with the mechanics of writing

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Quill options

• Planner Helps you to think of ideas for writing.
  You can take notes and get a list of your notes
  when you are finished.
• Library Stores your writing so you can change or
  add to it later and others can read it.
• Mailbag Allows you to send messages to your
  teachers and your classmates or read
  the messages they have sent to you.

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Library goals

• Creating a communication environment in which
  students write for their peers as well as for the
  teacher.
• Organizing writing in different ways.
• Providing easy access to stored pieces of writing

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Library options

• See Read Library entries by choosing keywords or
  titles
• Add Put a new entry into the Library
• Change Change an old Library entry

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Library activities

• Kids Review
• Classified Ads
• Newspaper
• Animal Encyclopedia
• How To Do It

• Poetry, novels, journals, . . .
• Television scripts
• Portfolios
• Selecting a Text

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Choose an entry by using

• Keywords
• Title and author
• Entry number

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There are entries for these keywords

• 1. Reviews 6. Entertainment
• 2. Food 7. Delicious
• 3. Pizza 8. Italian
• 4. Animals 9. Games
• 5. Restaurant 10. Movies

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There are 3 entries with the keyword Pizza

• TITLE AUTHOR 1 AUTHOR 2
  
• 1. Rita's Pizza Steve
  Keywords Pizza/Review/Italian
  
• 2. Gigliotti's Joan Vinnie
  Keywords Pizza/Restaurant
  
• 3. House of Pizza Ed
  Keywords Review/Pizza/Delicious
  

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Library example

• Pizza lovers, stay away from Rita's Pizza! I'm
  sorry to say that poor Rita hasn't the knack for
  making pizza. When I ate there, I had to wait 25
  minutes for my pizza. The crust was mushy and
  the sauce tasted like tomato juice. The center
  of the pizza had too much oil on it and it
  dripped all over my hands and the table when I
  picked it up. Maybe I went there on a bad day.
  It just seemed like everything was lousy. The
  only good thing about Rita's Pizza was that it
  had a room with video games.

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Menudo novel
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Mailbag goals

• Encourage written communication to diverse
  audiences
• Allow different kinds of writing to occur
  (informing, persuading, instructing,
  entertaining)
• Motivate students to write more by personalizing
  the experience

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Mailbag options

• Read Read messages to you, a group, or the
  Bulletin Board
• Send Write messages to other people, groups, or
  the Bulletin Board

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Read mail

• See YOUR OWN mail
• See the mail of a GROUP
• Look at the BULLETIN BOARD

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Send mail

• Send this message to a PERSON
• Send it to a GROUP
• Post it on the BULLETIN BOARD

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Mailbag activities

• Clubs
• Bulletin Board
• Secret messages
• Confidential Chat
• Jokes riddles
• Feedback on writing

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Planner goals

• Supporting the collection of notes or data for
  writing
• Encouraging the organization and revision of
  ideas
• Providing an environment for idea generation

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Planner options

• Use Use a PLANNER to start working on your
  writing
• Create Make a new PLANNER
• Modify Change an old PLANNER

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Planner activities

• Book reviews
• Science reports
• Narrative
• Editorial
• Interview

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A restaurant review planner

• What is the name of the restaurant?
• Where is it?
• On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the
  restaurant
• Would you go back again?
• Who owns it?
• What kinds of foods are served there?
• What is their specialty?
• How is the service?

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Garden planner
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Writers Assistant goals

• Composing
• Seeing what changes need to be made
• Revising
• Producing final copy
• Peer editing and feedback

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Writer's Assistant to revise

• Drugs are Dumb
  Benjamin M.Darren
  S.
• What is bothering us the most in New Jersey is
  underaged kids are taking drugs. their not
  getting enough education. Some kids even get
  killed! Adults should educate their children not
  to take drugs. It would take a few months or
  weeks to get over this problem. It is important
  to solve this problem because sometimes people
  get killed.
• Keywords /psychiatrist/drugs/children/killed/edu
  cation/

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Revised version

• Dangerous Damaging Drugs
  Benjamin M. Darren S.
• What is bothering us the most in New Jersey is
  underaged kids are taking drugs. They're not
  getting enough education. Some kids even get
  killed! Adults should educate their children not
  to take drugs or not to get involved with drugs.
  To get help you should go to a psychiatrist for
  help! It would take an unlimited amount of time
  to get over this problem. It is important to
  solve this problem because sometimes people get
  killed. So be smart, make sure you don't take
  drugs!
  
  
• Keywords /psychiatrist/drugs/children/killed/edu
  cation/

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MIXing paragraphs

• We'll tell you some things about Shungnak.
• In the winter it is very cold.
• In the summer it is very warm.
• A lot of people in Shungnak like to go hunting
  and go get wood.
• They shoot a lot of animals and bring them home
  and share.
• A lot of people go camping in the summer.
• If they seine they will get a lot of fish.
• They smoke salmon fish for the long winter.
  
  
  
  
  

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Paragraph form

• We'll tell you some things about Shungnak. In
  the winter it is very cold. In the summer it is
  very warm. A lot of people in Shungnak like to
  go hunting and go get wood. They shoot a lot of
  animals and bring them home and share. A lot of
  people go camping in the summer. If they seine
  they will get a lot of fish. They smoke salmon
  fish for the long winter . . .

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Quill Teachers Guide

• "Where I'd Like to Live Students write about
  places theyd like to live, using encyclopedias,
  travel brochures, maps, and magazines.
• Animal Encyclopedia Students create their own
  reference book using their own categories.
• Disease Digest Students create and publish a
  digest of childhood diseases indexed with
  keywords such as "contagious," "headache," and
  "spots."
• Classified Ads Students create classified ads
  for things they want to sell or exchange,
  announcements, or services they need or have to
  offer and post them on the Bulletin Board in
  MAILBAG.
• Television Series Students plan a television
  (or radio, play, movie, or book) series. They use
  a LIBRARY disk to store character descriptions
  and successive installments in their series.
• Game Review Students write a Game Review
  planner and use it to create a disk with reviews
  of their favorite games.
• QUILL Cookbook

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Quill teacher support-day 1

• Introductions
• Overview of QUILL
• Writing workshop
• Introduction to the Apple II
• Beginning Writer's Assistant edit a simple file
• Use MAILBAG to SEND and RECEIVE messages

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Day 2

• CREATE and USE a restaurant review planner
• Discuss integrating PLANNER into writing projects
  
• ADD a restaurant review
• SEE others' reviews
• Comment on these texts using MAILBAG
• CHANGE a restaurant review

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Day 3

• Teacher's Guide
• Advanced Writer's Assistant
• Utility disk
• Discuss classroom issues

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Other support

• classroom visits
• local facilitator
• hot line to provide follow-up help
• electronic mail
• monthly mailings containing samples of student
  work, ideas for activities, and software tips.
• year-end conference

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Realizations in the classroom

• New ways of writing
• Students writing to other students (writing with
  a purpose)
• Students writing for themselves (writing to
  learn)
• Too Late! (writing with an audience)
• The Menudos (students writing together)
• Holy Cross brochure (integrated learning)

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Milling around
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Other examples

• Telida calendar, bilingual, with poetry
  artwork
• mail order catalogs
• USS Alaska
• Cupik/English dictionary
• autobiographies
• interviewing elders, writing biographies
• native studies writing

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Creating learning environments

• Lab reports
• Mail
• Teacher-student dialogue
• Telida Current (editing for the audience)
• The Black History Show (changes in the writing
  process)
• Revising becomes editing