Teacher Resources on the World Wide Web

Using Computer Technology in Writing Instruction
With the use of compoters rapidly becoming an integral part of Writing Programs everywhere, the separation of this page from other resources may seem arbitrary. Still, computers, networks, and the World Wide Web are specific tools which can be used regardless of one's pedagogy, so it makes sense to isolate the information about how others are using this technology in teaching composition.

Naturally, this topic gets a lot of space on the World Wide Web. In the interest of making the information accessible, this page approaches the use of technology in sections. (Clicking on a link will open a new browser window on your desktop.)

The Issues
Here, you will find links to (mostly scholarly) commentaries addressing the terminology, theory, and pedagogy of using various technological resources in teaching composition.

Rheingold, Howard. "Comments on Intelligent Agents"
Rheingold. "Computers, Ethics, and Schools"
Rheingold's Tools for Thought (book)
Rheingold's Virtual Community (book)

The Tools
Here are links to definitions and discussions of widely used instructional technologies. Some of these tools were developed by theorists, while others took on a life of their own and were cataloged by the experts only after becoming well established in practice.

• Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN)
  Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN)
  Hawisher and Pemberton, "Writing Across the Curriculum Encounters Asynchronous Learning Networks"
  Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN)
  
  
• Distance Education
  American Center for the Study of Distance Education (ACSDE)
  Distance Education Clearinghouse
  Johns Hopkins Center for Distance Ed
  
  
• MUDs, MOOs, MUSHs, etc.
  Rheingold, Howard. "Building Fun Online Learning Communities"
  Schwartz, Alan (UCLA Berkeley) "Comments on MUD Research"
  
  
• The World Wide Web
  SITES Computer Tools for Teaching on the Web by UNC's Daniel Anderson.

The Organizations (and their Journals)

Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education (AACE)
Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC)
Campus Computing Project
CAUSE/EFFECT ("...managing and using information resources on college and university campuses")
Composition in Cyberspace
Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine
Computers and Composition: Online Journal
Computer Writing Research Labs: U of Texas Austin
Computer Writing, Rhetoric and Literature (CWRL)
Currents in Electronic Literacy
Epiphany Project: Computers and Writing
Syllabus Web (Technology in Education)
T.H.E. Journal (Technological Horizons in Education)
Technology Source
Daedulus Integrated Writing Environment Software, publisher of WINGS: Daedalus Newsletter
World Association for Online Education, sponsor of the Journal of Online Education

Other Online Resources
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