Hypertext And/As Collaboration in the Computer-Facilitated Writing Classroom

by Douglas Eyman


Abstract

Hypertext can be used--in nearly any type of computer-assisted class--to allow students to engage in collaborative, socially-constructed composition and meaning-making; this essay considers both the underlying theory which supports the use of hypertext in composition instruction and provides a range of pedagogical approaches. Various classroom arrangements are considered, from standalone computers with no internet connections to networked, internet accessible workstations; for each type of classroom a different hypertext assignment which emphasizes collaboration is provided as an example.

This web was peer-reviewed by Dean Fontenot, Lee Honeycutt and Dickie Selfe of the Kairos  Editorial Board.


Contact Douglas Eyman
About the Author
Douglas Eyman, now an independent scholar (late of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington), continues to pursue research in the field of computer-facilitated composition with a particular interest in hypertext and the possibilities it presents for making explicit a social-constructivist pedagogy.



KAIROS Enter the Archived Version of this Hypertext
Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments.
Vol. 1 No. 2 Summer 1996