CLASS LINKS FOR: English 200

 

Plans, Writing, and Reading Requirements

Syllabus   Techology in Class   Jan-Feb Plans    March Plans   April-May Plans

Final Letter to Will

Writing Studio

Paired Fiction Writing    Keeping your Class Notebook as a Learning Journal

Idea Structuring      Rubric    Class Rubric     Journaling Instruction   Designing Web Pages

What to do when absent  Tips on doing well in this class  Extra Credit Readings 

Analyze your critical thinking ability     Guidelines for college readers

Grammar?    20 Common Errors  Error and "Non-Error"    Pseudonym and Gender  

Peer Review Reasoning  Peer Review Nuts & Bolts   Peer Review Worksheet  

Story of a Comma    Does Spelling Count?    Spelling and Grammar Checkers--Use with Caution!  

Waging War & Peace: Words from Soldiers  Louis Menand on Lynn Truss and Writing

Ben Yagoda on Style   Instructions for online responding    PeerReview Onion Style

Whitesmoke Writing Promo    Anti-Grammar Reasoning   The Elements of Style

Key Advice from On Writing Well by William Zinsser   Truthiness   

Video Clips of Princeton's Harry G. Frankfurt's On Bullshit   

Writing Center  SCSU Computing Resources   Writing, Word Count, & Real Writing is not a skill!Thinking?

Entertaining Short story about Writing and Rejection   Grammar Girl's Helpful Blog

Writing is a gift of self!   MLA Formatting Instruction   Grammar?

 Instructions for online responding Key Adivice on Integrating Sources

Arguing Advice    The Ecstasy of Influence--A Mind Blowing Essay about Plagiarism and Writing

Beyond Exception: The Writer's Life by Will Hochman  The Writer Revised by Will Hochman

The Web of Language--A blog by Dennis Baron

Lonelygirl15   Web Review

 

Using Visual Literacy

Period Chart of Visual Literacy

 

Campus Computing

SCSU Computing Resources   

Instructions for Web Weaving at SCSU

Professor Beaudin's Front Page Web Weaving Instruction

Web Weaving in Word Instruciton

 

Computer Origins?

Histories and origins of the Intrernet  The Internet on the Internet

Wikipedia on the Internet

"The DNA of Information: Bits and Atoms" by Nicholas Negronte

Johnny Mnemonic by William Gibson   Learn about Virus Myths & Hoaxes

Laptop Lab Proposal     Taming the Computer    Humanizing Technology?

Making Intelligence Less Artificial   A Converging of Learning Litearcies by Will Hochman  

TechnoMagic    Moore's Law   Creative Commons

 

Computers and Democracy

Calling All Luddites   Voting with Computers?     Internet Politics

Instruction on submitting an Op-Ed (very short essay) to the N.Y. Times

Not All Web Information Is Free--Should It Be?   Media Literacy Love Our Technology?

Is Technology Political?--an NYTimes OpEd essay by Thomas Friedman

Big Computing vs Big Pharma--Creativity's Crossroads

GPS...in CONTEXT

 

Computers and Teaching

The Computer Delusion     Nu Shortcuts in School     Teaching With Computers by Matt Mroz

 The Book, Then and Now    Liberal Arts & Computers    Literacy in the Information Age? 

"Hypertext: Of Mouse and Man" by Sven Birkerts   Teaching despite technology

"The DNA of Information: Bits and Atoms" by Nicholas Negronte   Techno-Pedagogical Explorations

David Noble on Computers and Higher Education   Wired Libraries   

A Re-Vision of Teaching; Portrait of a Teacher in Process  Slate Review of Online Paper Mills

Professor Video Game   Why Heather Can Write    The Grammar Coach

Technoliteracy@SCSU   Hypertext 101   Richard Rodriguez on Literacy and Technololgy

Texas Wireless School    Wired student advice for parents   Cyberspace Affecting Maturation?

Google Books?   Web 2.0...The Machine is Us/ing Us    How to use often viewed sites...

Identity 2.0   Are College Students 'TechnoIdiots'?   Introducing the Book    Students v Turnitin.com

Academic Blogging    Laptop Lesson

 

Searching and Evaluating Web Sites

Teach Yourself to Use Google more effectively    Google's Financial Choice

Article on Google     Search Engine Competiton?   Google Site Analysis

Teach Yourself to Evaluate Web Sites    Web Style Guide   Wikipedia?

Tutorial on developing a resesarch question     What kind of search engine do you need?  

Wikipedia vs Britanica

Cyberspace?

Did you know?   Intelligent, Youtube-like sources for any and all class writing

Alternative Museum   The Internet Isn't Disneyland   ComedyNet

"The DNA of Information: Bits and Atoms" by Nicholas Negronte

"Hypertext: Of Mouse and Man" by Sven Birkerts  

Overhearing Marshall McLuan and William Gibson   The Internet Isn't Disneyland 

Apple's New Music Store      Not All Web Information Is Free--Should It Be?  

Deliberately Distorting the Digital Mechanism    Pod People   Flaming

Does Spelling Matter in Cyberspace?        Does Vengeance Matter in Cyberspace?

Wired, Yes, but Drawing the Line     Surf on the Wild Side of Cyberspace   Glossary

Live Internet Help Searching Almost Anything   Computer Haiku

Online Teenage Life   Advergames   Controlling the Internet?

The Internet on the Internet (GREAT LINK TO SOURCES!)

Google's Effect on Advertising   From Napster to Grokster to Snocap

Doug Hesse's Email Research   Social Computing?