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xanadu-classroom:

Xanadu-classrooms or a "perfect" and "idyllic" classroom could be argued as a dream every teacher secretly wishes to one day inhabit. The term "xanadu-classroom" was inspired by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem "Kubla Khan" (1798) and was conceived to emphasize that an ideal classroom environment occurs not only in "formal" academic face-to-face classrooms, but also extends to other spaces, outside the classroom. The distinction between "formal" and "informal" classroom spaces has begun to overlap and "formal" learning has been seen to occur in what traditionally might be considered "informal" educational space (Kirkland 12).

Teachers can consider making a wiki of their own (for instructions view "Wikis in Plain English" by commoncraft below). You can also visit the below Xanadu-classroom (click here) to see a working wiki that will be used as a future space for an extension of a face-to-face high school classroom.

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Also, for another fantastic wiki resource, you may also visit Troy Hicks' resource wiki page for digital writing and digital teaching athttp://hickstro.wikispaces.com/.

Currently, there are spaces provided on the wiki for "Author's Chair" and "Refrigerator Door" simply to serve as examples. The "Author's Chair" and "Refrigerator Door" activities were presented to me in E402 - Teaching Composition. Every student in the class signed up for a day to read a piece of writing of their choosing, which was given the name "Author's Chair." Students then were instructed to post their writing sample online so their instructors and their peers could access the sample in its written form. I read "The Crown of Sin," seven sonnets I wrote in E513B - Form & Technique in Poetry. "Refrigerator Door" was an ungraded, online space where students could post and present any writing they wanted to share. I posted a sonnet, titled "Noah's Crystal," on the "Refrigerator Door."