Internet Communication in Six Classrooms: Conversations across Time, Space, and Culture

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Foreword ix
• Preface xiii
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
• List of Contributors xvi
• I - Introduction 1
• 1 - Introduction to Internet Conversations as Intensely Social Activity 3
• II - Internet Communication in Six Classrooms 21
• 2 - Ruth Coleman's Fifth-Grade Classroom: Involvement Strategies 23
• 3 - Chris Meier's Fifth and Sixth-Grade Classroom: Village Stories That Entertain and Teach 40
• 4 - Hugh Dyment's High School Classroom: Talk Between Equals 55
• 5 - Kathy Plamondon's Seventh-Grade Classroom: Social Activity on an E-mail List 70
• 6 - Daniel Wilcox's High School Classroom: A Collegial and Public Kind of Teaching 90
• 7 - Kathy Nell's Fourth-Grade Classroom: Literature and Social Studies Activities on the Web 107
• III - Patterns 125

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Foreword ix
• Preface xiii
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
• List of Contributors xvi
• I - Introduction 1
• 1 - Introduction to Internet Conversations as Intensely Social Activity 3
• II - Internet Communication in Six Classrooms 21
• 2 - Ruth Coleman's Fifth-Grade Classroom: Involvement Strategies 23
• 3 - Chris Meier's Fifth and Sixth-Grade Classroom: Village Stories That Entertain and Teach 40
• 4 - Hugh Dyment's High School Classroom: Talk Between Equals 55
• 5 - Kathy Plamondon's Seventh-Grade Classroom: Social Activity on an E-mail List 70
• 6 - Daniel Wilcox's High School Classroom: A Collegial and Public Kind of Teaching 90
• 7 - Kathy Nell's Fourth-Grade Classroom: Literature and Social Studies Activities on the Web 107
• III - Patterns 125
• 8 - Continuity Across Classrooms 127
• References 139
• Author Index 147
• Subject Index 151