Michael Day: Projects
Keynote for 10th Annual Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing, 2006
Using Electronic Portfolios in Experiential Education --Invited Presentation for Midwest Cooperative Education and Internship 2006 Conference
Promises and Perils: Teaching and Learning in Cyberspace: Plenary for New Ideas in Communication And English 2006 Conference
Keynote for Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts Fall 2005 ConventionJapanese Values Through Modern Japanese Literature: Tradition and Change
Electronic Portfolios: From the 3-Ring to the E-Ring (New 12/2001)
(A project of my undergraduate research assistants Zach Gimm and Bob Taterka)Computers and the Internet in English Composition and Literature
NSF NIU-Rockford School District Technology Enhancement Workshop Links
The Online Job Search, Online Resumes, and Webfolios for the Job Search
Webfolios Unlimited: Electronic Portfolios for Class Assessment and Professional Development
Critical Thinking and The Internet Links
Evaluating Web Pages for Research
An Informal Rationale for Using Chats in the Composition Classroom
Community and Internet Discussion Groups: An Informal List of Features
Less Recent Projects
Until April 1999 I led the online discussion for the South Dakota Humanities Council's Reading Series.I have worked on two projects incorporating computer mediated communication into technical communications classes. "Writing in the Matrix" had students analyzing and participating in internet discussion groups in order to join professional discourse communities and learn their rhetorical conventions. A version of this assignment appears on pages 214 to 217 of The Learning Highway: A Student's Guide to the Internet (Toronto, Key Porter Books, 1995).
"Collaborative Workgroups on the Internet" had students in technical communications classes at South Dakota Tech, the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and the City University of New York grouped in teams of 6, 2 from each school, to complete a semester long collaborative project on the internet.
Every year, I generally moderate an online discussion as part of the Computers and Writing Online Conference. In 1996 I moderated a discussion list, CWC96EMAIL-L, on which we discussed both the pros and cons of Email for use with writing classes, and the value and structure of the Email thread as an argumentative form. Cynthia Haynes has webbed a transcript of our second MOO session, in which, as part of the ongoing C-Fest discussions on LinguaMOO, we discussed Email as an argumentative form.
In 1997, I led a workshop on planning and funding a computer-based writing classroom at the annual Computers and Writing conference.
In 1998, I led a panel on Learning Styles and the Computer-Based Writing Classroom at the annual Computers and Writing Conference
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