Tammy White, Nick Mauriello, and Gian Pagnucci

The goal of this workshop is to help composition teachers at all levels in moving from traditional classrooms to electronic environments. We will begin by sharing our personal experiences of adapting traditional writing courses to those taught in networked classrooms. Specifically, we will discuss easy ways to begin using basic technology applications: email, chat rooms, the Internet, and listservs. We will also describe some more advanced applications such as electronic portfolios, hypertext research papers, electronic peer response, and distance collaboration.

Using a "Classroom Transition Form," each participant will be asked to identify three course features that they hope to convert to an electronic environment. The facilitators will then use these forms to illustrate concrete examples of how to adapt and implement these course features into electronic pedagogy. After polling the participants on the most common need for their writing courses, we will lead the entire group through the development of all phases of a specific electronic lesson (including lecture, student discussion, class activity, assignment and evaluation).

The workshop will conclude by sharing a list of on-line resources. In addition, a listserv of workshop participants will be established in order to provide assistance and a forum for future discussions as they work on introducing technology into their classrooms in the coming academic year.

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