Designing Web-Based Applications for 21st Century Writing Classrooms

Designing Web-Based Applications for 21st Century Writing Classrooms brings together, for the first time, a group of scholars and teachers who have been developing, on their own initiative, web-based solutions to technical and professional writing instructional problems.

Pullman, George; Baotong, Gu

Introduction George Pullman and Baotong Gu PART 1 Writing Environments CHAPTER 1 Theorizing and Building Online Writing Environments: User-Centered Design Beyond the Interface Michael McLeod, William Hart-Davidson, and Jeffrey Grabill CHAPTER 2 : An Electronic Writing Space Ron Balthazor, Christy Desmet, Alexis Hart, Sara Steger, and Robin Wharton CHAPTER 3 Redevelop, Redesign, and Refine: Expanding the Functionality and Scope of TTOPIC into Raider Writer Robert Hudson and Susan M. Lang CHAPTER 4 The Role of Metaphor in the Development of an Instructional Writing Environment Mike Palmquist CHAPTER 5 Creating Complex Web-Based Applications with Agile Techniques: Iterations as Drafts Matt Penniman and Michael Wojcik PART 2 Individual, Standalone Applications CHAPTER 6 Visualizing Knowledge Work with Google Wave Brian J. McNely and Paul Gestwicki CHAPTER 7 Students Playing as Scholars and Selves: Academic Synthesis as Conversation Game David Fisher and Joe Williams CHAPTER 8 Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating a Web-Based Instructional Application for Technical Communication Classes David Chapman CHAPTER 9 Supplementing a Professional Writing Course with an Interactive Self-Learning Document Design Tutorial Suguru Ishizaki, Stacie Rohrbach, and Laura Scott CHAPTER 10 Developing a Web-Served Handbook for Writers Stephen A. Bernhardt PART 3 Open-Source Modifications CHAPTER 11 Peersourcing the PIT Journal: The Technosocial Pedagogical Hooks and Layers of Collaborative Publishing The PIT Core Publishing Collective CHAPTER 12 Blogs as an Alternative to Course Management Systems: Public, Interactive Teaching with a Round Peg in a Square Hole Steven D. Krause CHAPTER 13 Developing a Course Wiki for Accessibility and Sustainability Karl Stolley CHAPTER 14 An Interface for Interaction Design: Using Course Wikis to Build Knowledge Communities Steven T. Benninghoff Contributors Index