Thursday, June 03, 2004

Gmail - [techrhet] 10 Steps to Writing an Essay site

"Thanks for your comments, Chidsey. How did I do the interactive stuff?
Dreamweaver is the program of choice for simple interactions like this. You
can make layers appear and disappear, can make layers draggable, make pop-up
messages appear and disappear. Even animation is possible. "Coursebuilder"
is an extension you can add to Dreamweaver to give you more interactive
opportunities.

The focus of the instruction on these ten steps no doubt derives from the
type of writing assignments taught at AUC. All essays are arguments, none
personal narratives or other creative assignments. There is also almost no
literary analyses in our program either.

Although a student might learn a lot from my site, in class I don't think it
worked as a very good teaching tool. Knowing the material was written down
and easily accessible later made students lazy in class, rarely taking notes
or paying all that much attention. They found the interactive exercises
novel at first, but later learned to dread them because, lo and behold, they
required careful thought."

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