Portland Middle School
Welcome to Nancy Patterson's classroom
The Big Idea Behind Integrating Hypertext in the Classroom
The student websites listed below were created by students in Nancy Patterson's language arts classes at Portland Middle School as part of the regular language arts curriculum. Computer technology is an important literacy tool, one that enables the writing processes. Hypertext or web technology further enables those processes by placing students in situations where they must make associations between chunks of text. It is those associations, those links between one concept and another, that literacy is really about.
As you navigate through the student websites, please remember that these middle school students are all at different places on the literacy continuum. These sites will contain spelling deviations and will show students' growing development in written language. They are not adults and have not yet developed an adult's literacy level. But they are getting there. And projects such as these help them grow their literacy through active involvement with language.
Chris and Adam doing their thing at the MACUL
Student Technology Showcase in Grand Rapids, MI.
Student web sites
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Lauren Kayla Derek Sara Trisha Rhonda |
Edison Web Mark Twain Sitting Bull Laura Ingalls Wilder Robert E. Lee Clara Barton Martha Washington Jackie Robinson |
Special Projects
Bald
Eagles by Caitlin
The
20th Century by Adam
Slavery
Web by Sara
