Selecting Students

Patti manages a Title 1 computer lab and takes six students at a time into the lab for 30 minute lessons a day. She chooses one of the groups of six as the target group for the online writing program. The six students for the 1999-2000 project were in second grade. Last year and this year the students in the project are in third grade. All of the students are Title 1 and need lots of encouragement and support as they write. Students receive an Acceptable Use Policy for using the Internet which is signed by their parents. Permission (or not) for pictures on the WWW is included in the form.

Betty is a Title 1 reading/math instructor in a learning lab. She works with groups of six students at a time for one hour a day. First and second grade students are the focus for the lab. She chooses one of the groups of six as the selected group for the online writing project. The six students chosen for the 2000-2001 and 2001-2002 project were in the second grade. There were three third grade students selected for 1999-2000. All of the participants have been Title 1 students needing small group instruction with lots of reinforcement during their writing project. Students first receive an Acceptable Use Policy for using the Internet, which is signed by their guardian. Permission is also received for putting the students’ pictures on the web page to document the steps of the writing project.