Teaching English in the Two-Year College - Volume 30, Issue 2, 2002

A curriculum of technology-enhanced and sustained content study helps ESL students develop literacy skills necessary for college work.

E-mail peer response teaches students about audience and text more effectively than synchronous peer response.

Unexpected and most welcome is the discovery that technology-mediated teacher evaluation can increase our access to our students’ world and help us be more responsive to their needs.

This article explores the possibilities of the paperless classroom achieved through e-mail strategies and the use of Blackboard, an e-learning software platform.

To overcome initial fears of technology, it is important to survey teachers, determine their concerns, and then provide training opportunities, including online courses, that illuminate the benefits and outcomes of online learning.

Discussion forum technology connects online students in interactive, real-life writing groups.

Reviews four books: Weaving a Virtual Web: Practical Approaches to New Information Technologies, ed. Sibylle Gruber; Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing, by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher; Readings Online: A Virtual Common Place, ed. Paul Amore; Reading and Writing in an Online World, by Dawn Rodrigues.