Marie+Warlick

My name is Marie Warlick. I teach English I, II, and III as well as creative writing at the Alternative Education Center in Marion, NC. My class size is twelve and under. The students I serve are classified as "at risk" or "high risk". My goal for today is to learn about wiki spaces and how they can be of practical use in my classroom. I am not currently a 1 to 1 classroom, but I've been informed that the AEC is to move to this next year. The challenges I foresee are exactly what happened for the past fifteen minutes. Technology problems/issues have taken up my time so I am now behind everyone else. Class time is important to use well. The tech issues put me in an awful frame of mind as I realize my lesson plan is useless until such problems are solved.

Reflection on Break-Away session: SAS offers students ability to be more independent in editing essays/written work. Students can cut/paste Word documents into SAS and then look for grammar issues such as sentence structure, organization, voice, etc. Students can edit it there, submit it via printing, saving, or emailing it to the teacher. Some teachers create an email address for each period they teach which automatically groups all submitted final drafts. This site is a tool for teachers in every main discipline to use to teach writing.

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