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Reissman, Rose – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1994
Discusses ways for teachers to develop their own writing workshops. Discusses briefly four teacher-generated workshops. (RS)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Teacher Developed Materials, Writing Improvement
Jukes, Ian – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Presents an interview with Niki and Alan McCurry, who discuss the uses and features of the "Alaska Writing Program," a computer software product that can be used in writing classrooms. Explains its origins, shows how it centers on the writing process, and discusses ways of using the program in the classroom. (HB)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computers, English Instruction, Higher Education
Linett, Deena – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1994
Describes the New Jersey Writing Project, a total immersion in writing, theory, and practices offered as two three-credit summer courses at Rutgers University. Suggests that the power and authority people gain from writing workshops is so dramatic that once teachers have experienced it they have no choice but to learn to use workshops in their own…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Coe, Gretchen; And Others – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1994
Presents six teachers' responses to the "Private Eye" workshop (which encourages thinking by analogy and incorporating writing in many forms into content area teaching). Notes that the workshop was described in two articles in the November/December 1993 issue of this journal. Notes the energy that flows out of the teachers' writing about…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Response
Pollock, Jeri – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1994
Presents a case study of an inservice writing workshop (at Our Lady of Mercy School in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) designed to give teachers hands-on experience in applying computer writing to their individual subjects. Describes how a computer culture was developed at the school. (RS)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Networks, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Franklin, Sharon – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1994
Presents a conversation with Linda Rief, a middle school language-arts teacher, concerning writing workshops in the classroom. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Interviews, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
