Electronic Publishing
Essay Exchange Unit Lesson Three
Final
Drafts
- Grade level: High School
- Subject Area: Social Studies and Language Arts
Brief Description
Lesson 3: Final Drafts. Students develop final versions of
their position papers. Final versions are added to the school's web pages. The final
projects are announced over the Internet via e-mail discussion lists and World Wide Web,
local bulletin board systems, national computer networks such as the World Message
Exchange, RIMEnet, and commercial on-line services. Duration: one week.
Objectives
Students will:
- Have their writing skills and ideas challenged by the publication of their
projects on the Web.
- Further their writing skills by responding to feedback both
from the instructor and electronic reviewers.
Materials and Resources Needed
In developing our lessons and activities, we made some
assumptions about the hardware and software that would be available in the classroom for
teachers who visit the LETSNet Website. We assume that teachers using our Internet-based
lessons or activities have a computer (PC or Macintosh) with the necessary hardware
components (mouse, keyboard, and monitor) as well as software (operating system, TCP/IP
software, networking or dial-up software, e-mail and a World Wide Web client program,
preferably Netscape, but perhaps Mosaic or Lynx). In the section below, we specify any
"special" hardware or software requirements for a lesson or activity - over
and above those described above - as well as our sense of the Internet access required
to do the activity.
- Special hardware requirements: None.
- Special software requirements: Word processing software and an HTML editor.
- Internet access: Medium-speed (28,000 BPS via modem), or High-speed (greater
than 1 MBPS via network) connection.
Activity
Description
- Students write and submit their final drafts.
- Translate student essays into HTML format. You may choose to have each group learn
how to do the conversion, have student volunteers work with you to translate the student
essays into HTML format, or do it yourself. For more information on how to do HTML
translations, visit some of the sites we have listed below.
- Notify e-mail discussion lists and correspondents about the project. See the list
of potential sites below.
Internet Resources
The following are
a brief list of some sites where you might submit a notification about social science
related essay exchange projects.
- Intercultural E-mail Classroom
Connection
[http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc/]
St. Olaf College site
lists a number of places where you can join e-mail discussion lists to connect with
classrooms around the United States and the world. h the United States and the world.
- Humanities Net e-mail discussion list on hypermedia
[H-MMEDIA@MSU.EDU]
Send e-mail to this address to join a discussion list moderated by a history
professor interested in integrating computers and multimedia.
- Humanities Net e-mail discussion list for history teachers
[h-teach@MSU.EDU]
Send e-mail to this address to particatipate in H-Teach. H-Teach is a list
dedicated to teaching history on the college-level.
- Humanities Net e-mail discussion list for Teaching Social Studies in Secondary
Schools
[H-HIGH-S@MSU.EDU]
Send e-mail to this list to participate in
discussions on secondary social studies.
- Ednet
[ednet@noc1.oit.umass.edu]
This e-mail discussion list is a general
education list that led the way in educational e-mail discussions.
- Edweb Discussion List
wwwedu@elanor.oit.unc.edu
An e-mail discussion list
run by Andy Carvin, based at Edweb.
The following sites are places you can go to learn about making HTML documents.
- Setting Up
A Web Site For Your School: An On-line Presentation
[http://bigdog.fred.net/nhhs/html2/present.htm]
A site developed by George Cassutto
which explains terminology and outlines steps you can take to establish your own web
site.
- Beginner's Guide to HTML
[http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html]
A good place to
start learning about html.
- Web66
[http://web66.coled.umn.edu/]
The sections on technology and information offer help
on issues such as setting up a server, getting started with e-mail and other Internet
needs.
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