TechNotes Archive

These blog entries, written by Traci Gardner, were published in TechNotes, a free newsletter for writing teachers from Bedford/St. Martin’s. Nick Carbone, Director of New Media for Bedford/St. Martin’s, has archived all  TechNotes  posts on his blog.

• Web Works in Progress: Asks students to consider different versions of the same basic site in classroom discussions about Web sites as texts that are always “works in progress.”
• The Dos and Do Nots of the Internet Class: Discusses the rhetorical and pedagogical situations surrounding the choice of e-mail addresses by students.
• Did He  Really  Say That? Or Did She?: Considers what gender checkers catch and what they don’t–and ways to use them in the classroom.
• Point/PowerPoint:  Explores the ways that Microsoft’s PowerPoint is discussed as villian and hero in business and educational settings.
• Web Litterbugs:  Suggests ways to take advantage of the ever-changing pages on the Internet in the classroom.
• Spam, Spam, Spam, TechNotes, and Spam: Proposes discussion questions and related articles on spam.
• Computer Viruses: Who’s to Blame?:  Investigates the rhetoric of virus announcements and hoaxes.
• Let’s Chat: Discusses articles on Microsoft’s decision to no longer provide a free Chat service.
• AP Wire | 07/10/2003 | Study: 12th-graders can’t write well: Asks readers to consider whether students can’t write–or the testmakers.
• Slow Down. You Load Too Fast.  Reminds teachers of the importance of testing the speed of Internet resources that we ask our students to use.