File Management: The Writer’s Key to Online Happiness

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Sometimes Teaching the Technology IS Teaching Writing

On Saturday, February 23, 2002 I gave a talk at the Texas Community College Teachers Association and Texas Community College Association Convention. I've put the slides I used into a PowerPoint, which aren't annotated much. They were used to have something to talk about and show, but you're free to download them. Also here, you'll find links to useful documents on filemanagent, including one to Research Assistant Hyperfolio that opens in a new browser window.

1. The Talk Overheads (Power Point)
2. Saving Files and Folders
3. How to Save in Rich Text Format, a handout from my teaching
4. File Management and Plagiarism: An Argument for Research Portfolios
5. Research Assistant Hyperfolio: A Tool for Managing Research and Avoiding Plagiarism
   This link takes you to an overview of the program, but you'll also find links about requesting exam copies and other information.
6. The English Research Room by Mike Palmquist.
   Note: This site will be updated and redesigned when Mike's new book, The Bedford Researcher comes out in August 2002. Mike's book will also include advice and suggestions on how to use Research Assistant.
7. Electronic Research Exercises from the book companion site for The Bedfordford Handbook by Diana Hacker.
8. Research and Documentation Online by Diana Hacker with Barbara Fister.
9. Peer Review Suggestions.
   Since the talk dovetailed into Peer Review, I'm adding this link to Website I put up for a workshop on teaching with online tools for Houston Community Colleges. Feel free to download use anything's that useful.

• Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever by Arthur W. Chickering and Stephen C. Ehrmann.
  This short but very useful article describes how technology can help teachers apply The Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education.
• We also talked about how portfolios -- for research and writing -- are necessary. That is, responsible researchers keep records of their work, copies of their sources, and so on, and requiring students to do that with all their writing is good practice and concommitently makes the "chances of plagiarism vanishingly thin." Here are some resources to help think about portfolios, research portfolios, and online portfolios:
  
  • The Online Learning Record by Peg Syverson is one of the best examples of well-grounded online portfolio method that includes student self-reflection and goal setting.
  • "Portfolios" from The Digital Guide to Research and Scholarship
    This site offers suggestions on how to design research portfolios (and writing portfolios). It includes links to several other areas of use, including "Why Research," and "Research Plans." As teachers, you'll pick up some great ideas here.