Readings for Wednesday, August 15

For Wednesday, you might want to read the article suggested for today, on theorizing the dangers and risks of introducing free-for-all online discussion into your classroom teaching. This is an article called "Adams Sherman Hill meets ENFI". It references some of the early work of Trent Batson and others who used online discussion to teach writing; Trent may or may not refer to it but he knows that I've mentioned it to you.

As to the Bean Chapter 4 reading suggested for Thursday: do it at your leisure. When we planned this workshop, we imagined that people would express a lot of concern about how to teach grammar and style, so we wanted you to read what John Bean had to say on the topic. As a group, you've not expressed that concern, so we won't spend time directly discussing that reading on Thursday. We still think everyone should be familiar with it, so hope you will read it eventually, if not tonight.