This document discusses three assistive technologies that can be useful for English teachers in secondary classrooms: Turnitin, the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL), and Teaching English with Technology (Tewt). Turnitin helps prevent plagiarism by checking student papers against an online database. OWL provides hundreds of writing resources for students and teachers, including style guides and answers to grammar questions. Tewt offers lesson plans and advice on incorporating blogs, wikis and other technologies into English and language arts lessons. The document argues that these resources can help engage students and give them tools to succeed as writers.

1. Teaching and Technology Assistive Technologies for English Teachers in the Secondary ClassroomChase BauerW200, Spring 2010

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3. Turnitin.comTurnitin is an excellent tool for guarding against plagiarism in college and high school classrooms. Both student and teacher utilize the databaseof more than one million student-generated papers to determine the amount of material that may be considered plagiarism.

4. More… Understanding why students might turn to plagiarism is a good way for educators to determine how they might help prevent it. While sometimes simply the pressure of a deadline might push a student to use work that is not their own, it is important for teachers to make sure their students understand exactly what plagiarism means.

5. ReflectionAs a future secondary educator, it is a relief to know abouttechnologies such as Turnitin.com because it will not onlyhelp me emphasize the importance of issues like plagiarism,it will help me prepare my high school students for life in the college classroom.

6. Purdue Online Writing Labhttp://owl.english.purdue.edu/OWL is the Purdue University Online Writing Lab. It offers hundreds of resources for writing students including style guides, ESL ESL strategies, answers to grammatical questions and much more. The OWL also offers valuable resources that cover the writing process for academic , research, and common writing. For educators, OWL has valuable resources to enhance classroom lesson plans and activities to sharpen the high school writer and prepare them for academic writing at the next level.

7. More…The advantages of technology like Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL) are invaluable to students and educators. This resource is available at the fingertips and has literally hundreds of helpful topics on the site. Students and educators can ask quick writing- related questions and get timely answers from a trained writing tutor to help them in a pinch.

8. ReflectionHaving used the OWL myself, I understand what it means to have a resource like this in your hip pocket from the concept to the creation of a paper. This technology is not only useful to college students, but is something to be introduced to high school students and to be used by educators.

9. Teaching English With Technologyhttp://www.tewt.orgTeaching English with Technology is a fantastic web site that helps English & Language Arts teachers bring technology to their classrooms.This site is full of resources for teaching common secondary-level literature, poetry and poets, has links to lesson guides and lesson plans and offers advice on the ESL classroom.

10. More…Tewt.org offers great advice on the advancement of technology in the classroom such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and online social networks for teachers and how to bring them to the classroom to enhance the learning environment.

11. ReflectionResources like tewt.org bring an element to the secondary classroom by adding not only the advanced technological element to the learning environment, it also gives teachers valuable resources and connections to fellow educators with common interests and goals.

12. Conclusion Resources like Turnitin, OWL and tewt will allow me to keep technology alive in my secondary classroom and keep lessons interactive and in an up-to-date fashion that will keep students engaged. Technologies like these give students the advantage of having more resources and contacts available to them to help them succeed. These assistive technologies will help me help them succeed.

13. Resourceswww.turnitin.comwww.owl.english.purdue.eduwww.tewt.org