How is technology reshaping literature classrooms?

Just as the printing press changed the way print texts were produced, accessed, and distributed, the Internet is reshaping literature today.
In recent years, more and more literary texts, both canonical and new, are being published in electronic text archives.

At the same time, the web is changing the face of literary scholarship, as academics create resources that take advantage of the immersive and encyclopedic digital medium.

The Internet makes all of these resources are available to teachers and teacher educators. For a good start, see Dr. Allen Webb's resources for teaching literature.

The new digital medium is also producing new literary forms. Democratic and creative in impulse, these forms include hypertext fiction, electronic magazines, web logs, wikis, and even video games. They may even make their way into a classroom near you.