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Quill
Reading and Writing with Microcomputers
Quill
Quill theory
Functional learning environments
Quill pedagogical goals
Encourage writing for peers
Develop writing skill in the context of meaningful communication with real audiences
Encourage feedback from others
Provide motivation to read the writing of others
Facilitate revision
Help with the mechanics of writing
Quill options
Planner: Helps you to think of ideas for writing. You can take notes and get a list of your notes when you are finished.
Library: Stores your writing so you can change or add to it later and others can read it.
Mailbag: Allows you to send messages to your teachers and your classmates or read the messages they have sent to you.
Library goals
Creating a communication environment in which students write for their peers as well as for the teacher.
Organizing writing in different ways.
Providing easy access to stored pieces of writing
Library options
See: Read Library entries by choosing keywords or titles
Add: Put a new entry into the Library
Change: Change an old Library entry
Library activities
Kids’ Review
Classified Ads
Newspaper
Animal Encyclopedia
How To Do It
Poetry, novels, journals, . . .
Television scripts
Portfolios
Selecting a Text
Choose an entry by using
Keywords
Title and author
Entry number
There are entries for these keywords
1. Reviews 6. Entertainment
2. Food 7. Delicious
3. Pizza 8. Italian
4. Animals 9. Games
5. Restaurant 10. Movies
There are 3 entries with the keyword: Pizza
TITLE AUTHOR #1 AUTHOR #2
1. Rita's Pizza Steve Keywords: Pizza/Review/Italian
2. Gigliotti's Joan Vinnie Keywords: Pizza/Restaurant
3. House of Pizza Ed Keywords: Review/Pizza/Delicious
Library example
Pizza lovers, stay away from Rita's Pizza! I'm sorry to say that poor Rita hasn't the knack for making pizza. When I ate there, I had to wait 25 minutes for my pizza. The crust was mushy and the sauce tasted like tomato juice. The center of the pizza had too much oil on it and it dripped all over my hands and the table when I picked it up. Maybe I went there on a bad day. It just seemed like everything was lousy. The only good thing about Rita's Pizza was that it had a room with video games.
Menudo novel
Mailbag goals
Encourage written communication to diverse audiences
Allow different kinds of writing to occur (informing, persuading, instructing, entertaining)
Motivate students to write more by personalizing the experience
Mailbag options
Read: Read messages to you, a group, or the Bulletin Board
Send: Write messages to other people, groups, or the Bulletin Board
Read mail
See YOUR OWN mail
See the mail of a GROUP
Look at the BULLETIN BOARD
Send mail
Send this message to a PERSON
Send it to a GROUP
Post it on the BULLETIN BOARD
Mailbag activities
Clubs
Bulletin Board
Secret messages
Confidential Chat
Jokes & riddles
Feedback on writing
Planner goals
Supporting the collection of notes or data for writing
Encouraging the organization and revision of ideas
Providing an environment for idea generation
Planner options
Use: Use a PLANNER to start working on your writing
Create: Make a new PLANNER
Modify: Change an old PLANNER
Planner activities
Book reviews
Science reports
Narrative
Editorial
Interview
A restaurant review planner
What is the name of the restaurant?
Where is it?
On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the restaurant
Would you go back again?
Who owns it?
What kinds of foods are served there?
What is their specialty?
How is the service?
Garden planner
Writer’s Assistant goals
Composing
Seeing what changes need to be made
Revising
Producing final copy
Peer editing and feedback
Writer's Assistant to revise
Drugs are Dumb Benjamin M.Darren S.
What is bothering us the most in New Jersey is underaged kids are taking drugs. their not getting enough education. Some kids even get killed! Adults should educate their children not to take drugs. It would take a few months or weeks to get over this problem. It is important to solve this problem because sometimes people get killed.
Keywords: /psychiatrist/drugs/children/killed/education/
Revised version
Dangerous Damaging Drugs Benjamin M. Darren S.
What is bothering us the most in New Jersey is underaged kids are taking drugs. They're not getting enough education. Some kids even get killed! Adults should educate their children not to take drugs or not to get involved with drugs. To get help you should go to a psychiatrist for help! It would take an unlimited amount of time to get over this problem. It is important to solve this problem because sometimes people get killed. So be smart, make sure you don't take drugs!
Keywords: /psychiatrist/drugs/children/killed/education/
MIXing paragraphs
We'll tell you some things about Shungnak.
In the winter it is very cold.
In the summer it is very warm.
A lot of people in Shungnak like to go hunting and go get wood.
They shoot a lot of animals and bring them home and share.
A lot of people go camping in the summer.
If they seine they will get a lot of fish.
They smoke salmon fish for the long winter.
Paragraph form
We'll tell you some things about Shungnak. In the winter it is very cold. In the summer it is very warm. A lot of people in Shungnak like to go hunting and go get wood. They shoot a lot of animals and bring them home and share. A lot of people go camping in the summer. If they seine they will get a lot of fish. They smoke salmon fish for the long winter . . .
Quill Teacher’s Guide
"Where I'd Like to Live: Students write about places they’d like to live, using encyclopedias, travel brochures, maps, and magazines.
Animal Encyclopedia: Students create their own reference book using their own categories.
Disease Digest: Students create and publish a digest of childhood diseases indexed with keywords such as "contagious," "headache," and "spots."
Classified Ads: Students create classified ads for things they want to sell or exchange, announcements, or services they need or have to offer and post them on the Bulletin Board in MAILBAG.
Television Series: Students plan a television (or radio, play, movie, or book) series. They use a LIBRARY disk to store character descriptions and successive installments in their series.
Game Review: Students write a Game Review planner and use it to create a disk with reviews of their favorite games.
QUILL Cookbook
Quill teacher support-day 1
Introductions
Overview of QUILL
Writing workshop
Introduction to the Apple II
Beginning Writer's Assistant: edit a simple file
Use MAILBAG to SEND and RECEIVE messages
Day 2
CREATE and USE a restaurant review planner
Discuss integrating PLANNER into writing projects
ADD a restaurant review
SEE others' reviews
Comment on these texts using MAILBAG
CHANGE a restaurant review
Day 3
Teacher's Guide
Advanced Writer's Assistant
Utility disk
Discuss classroom issues
Other support
classroom visits
local facilitator
hot line to provide follow-up help
electronic mail
monthly mailings containing samples of student work, ideas for activities, and software tips.
year-end conference
Realizations in the classroom
New ways of writing
Students writing to other students (writing with a purpose)
Students writing for themselves (writing to learn)
Too Late! (writing with an audience)
The Menudos (students writing together)
Holy Cross brochure (integrated learning)
Milling around
Other examples
Telida calendar, bilingual, with poetry & artwork
mail order catalogs
USS Alaska
Cu’pik/English dictionary
autobiographies
interviewing elders, writing biographies
native studies writing