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Workshop 9
Writing for the
Web
Workshop Description:
We read differently on
websites, and we need to write differently also. Longtime web
educator and blogger Crawford Kilian, author of Writing for the
Web 3.0, shows how to help students read and respond effectively
to online text. Participants will read and critique numerous
sites, and learn basic web-editing skills. For a preview:
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/
Presenter: Crawford Kilian
 Crawford Kilian has published
20 books and hundreds of articles and columns.
Born in the US, Crawford grew up in the US and Mexico. He and
his wife Alice moved to Vancouver in 1967. Both launched careers
in education, with Crawford also publishing children’s books,
novels, textbooks, regional history, and books on education
issues.
His most recent book is Writing for the Web 3.0 (Self-Counsel
Press, 2006), a handbook for Web content developers. He has
talked to educators and webwriters from Nova Scotia to Michigan
to Alberta, as well as in Brazil.
For several years he has blogged about topics that interest him,
from writing fiction (http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/fiction/)
to English usage (http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/english/)
to bird flu (http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/).
Crawford lives in North Vancouver, teaches at Capilano College,
and has plans for many more books. His current project is a
second edition of Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of
British Columbia, scheduled for publication on the 150th
anniversary of the arrival of the Blacks in the 1858 gold rush.
(His blog on the book is at
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/pioneers/ )
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