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E-mail? Instant Messages? NP! No Problem, that is! Students' understanding and use of digital technologies provide great opportunities for us as teachers. As Leila Christenbury tells us in the Winston Salem-Journal article listed above in the News section, students are "always going to create new things." Our job as teachers is to find ways to foster and support those new creations. The ReadWriteThink lessons What’s the Difference? Beginning Writers Compare E-mail with Letter Writing and Write Right Back: Recognizing Readers’ Needs and Expectations for E-mail Replies (E) outline opportunities for investigating the genre of e-mail in the classroom. For more information, read the article that inspired the lessons: "E-mail as Genre: A Beginning Writer Learns the Conventions" (E) from the Language Arts. Explore the language of electronic messages and how it affects other writing with the ReadWriteThink lesson Audience, Purpose, and Language Use in Electronic Messages (M). The English Journal article "Virtually Being There: Creating Authentic Experiences through Interactive Exchanges" (S-C) describes an e-mail writing exchange between preservice teachers and high school students, designed to help students develop conversations about writing as a tool for learning across the curriculum. For resources to structure your own writing exchange, check out the ReadWriteThink lesson Exploring Literature through Letter Writing Groups (S-C). The College English article "Distant Voices: Teaching Writing in a Culture of Technology" (C) considers the ways that technology can influence our teaching in light of "the increasing replacement of face-to-face contact by 'virtual' interaction via multimedia technology, e-mail communication systems, and the recently expanded capabilities of the World Wide Web" in our campus classrooms and in distance education. For more ideas, check out the Council Chronicle article "Rest Assured--Students, Teachers, and Language Are 'Alive and Kickn'" (G), which explains how "English Teachers See 'Teachable Moments' in Technology-Inspired Shorthand." NOTE: Free access to journal articles mentioned in this Inbox is provided
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