The Cyber English Project was conceived to provide a forum for sharing, learning, collaborating and communicating within the entire educational community, including students, parents, teachers, administrators and the public. Teachers create webpages that include curriculum, standards and rubrics, lessons, materials, homework and other course-related resources. Students create digital portfolios, or Webfolios, with links to each of their classes. They post their classwork and homework online. This provides our students with an authentic audience for presenting their scholarly work, helps them develop their information literacy skills, and prepares them to be effective global communicators and collaborators, skills that are required for this changing world. Our goal is to make them self-directed learners.
Students learn html for several important reasons, primarily literacy. They must refer to html style sheets, then apply what they read to the development of their webpages. Additionally, writing html requires that students carefully scrutinize their work. The necessary proofreading becomes habitual and a natural part of their academic writing process.
Students are more engaged. Attendance and test scores improve demonstrably. Students take owndership of their webpages, using them as means of self-expression and empowerment.
Feel free to check out my Cyber English curriculum here.