CYBER JOURNAL

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September Suggestions: Choose only one topic from the list
  • What is Cybercomp and how do you feel about being in this class?
  • What do you hope Cybercomp will do for you?
  • How does this class seem different from other English classes you've had in the past?
October Suggestions: Choose only one topic from the list
  • What's your favorite thing about your web page and why?
  • What have you learned by using computers in English?
  • Why is it important for you to have created and maintain a web page in school?
November Suggestions: Choose only one topic from the list
  • If an outsider visited your site, what would you hope he or she would think about it?
  • If you had more time to work on your web page, what would you change or improve about it and why?
December Suggestions: Choose only one topic from the list
  • What has been most challenging or frustrating for you in this class and how have you met the challenge or overcome the frustration?
  • Do you ever find yourself helping other students in CyberEnglish9 to learn something? How does that feel? Is this a normal role for you or new to you?
January Suggestions: Choose only one topic from the list
  • What steps have you taken to revise the work you have published on your web? Why did you decide to make these revisions?
  • How have you integrated your learning of literature with your web and technical learning?

 
February Suggestions: Choose only one topic from the list
  • Which new technologies that you have learned could you see using in other classes? Explain.
  • Do you feel more confident now than you did at the beginning of the year about any of your skills: computer? writing? reading? Explain.
March Suggestions:  Choose only one topic from the list
  • What are some of the educational or career goals you have set for yourself that Cybercomp may have helped you develop or understand?
  • Who have you met (online) and what is it about your correspondence with him or her that's interesting or important? (Web pal ?).
  • How is reading a text online different from reading a text on paper? Which is easier? Why? Which do you like better? Why? (What kind of hypertext reader are you)?
  • You can now log in to K12 Planetr to get all of your grades. How is this important to you?  How does having access to your grades help you be a better student?
April Suggestions:  Choose only one topic from the list
  • A recent panel of business people told us that one of the main things they need in their employees is the ability to work well as a member of a team. Think about what research project taught you about teamwork that would help you in the future.
  • Writing collaboratively can be challenging and rewarding. Write about your experience writing with another person.
  • Think about your multigenre experience. How was it? Was it easy, hard, fun, frustrating, interesting, confusing, liberating, or something else? Give examples.  And/or write about how creating a multigenre web project was like or unlike other big projects you've done.
May Suggestions: Choose only one topic from the list
  • How have you changed as a student through Cybercomp (if you have changed)? Be specific. What will you do with what you have learned in this class?
  • How has peer review helped you be a better writer?

End of the year reflection:

In May, write a longer journal entry, separate from your monthly entries. Label it "End of Year Reflection" and write about 350-400 words, minimum. In this piece, look back on the entire journey, the whole semester in Cybercomp. Write about how you are different now from who you were at the beginning of the semester.

You should look back at each of your weekly cyber journal entries to remind yourself about how you've grown. In addition, use the questions that follow to help you develop your reflection.

You should write a short introduction and a conclusion. Be sure that you write unified, coherent paragraphs. Each paragraph needs a main focus and a topic sentence. Check for conventions errors. Consider word choice carefully. Listen to your voice. Does this piece of writing express how you feel and think? Have you supported your ideas with reasons (that show why and how) and examples (to illustrate what you say)?

This part of your cyber journal is worth 50 points.

Here are some questions to help you generate ideas; you are not limited to writing "about" the following:

  • What have you learned?
  • Which skills that you have now that you didn't have at the beginning of the year are most valuable to you and why?
  • How have the skills you have acquired in this class helped you in other classes or in other areas in your life?
  • In what ways have you become a better writer? Be specific about how.
  • If you were nervous about making a web page at the beginning of the year, write about how your feelings have changed.
  • How does having a web page affect how you learn? How does it affect how you write? Has having a web page that you have made affect you in any other way?
  • Looking back, what do you wish you would have learned about that you didn't? Or, what would you do differently if you could go back, knowing what you know now?