The one-term workshop involved a French literature class of ten students. The teacher of this literature class chose to work on an eZoomBook with a pre-constructed structure and guidelines to help the students organize and structure their work. The teacher selected a corpus of 16 texts to study. The student input (work on vocabulary, text analysis, comments) was pre-defined, and the class activities required students to work outside class. Each student worked on his or her individual eZB, with all of the eZBs merged into one at the end of the semester.
The teacher’s objective was to work on a corpus of texts around the theme of the ‘femme fatale’ and to teach students how to organize their note-taking in an eZB, which included the texts studied as well as seven tabs relating to students’ research and note-taking.
The structure of the eZB was a matrix structure designed by the teacher:on the axis of the ordinate, the teacher placed the 12 texts around the theme of the femme fatale.
On the abscissa, the teacher selected seven tabs for the student activities:
– Works chosen: original texts such as “À une passante”, “Le vampire” (C. Baudelaire), “Cantique de Saint-Jean” (S. Mallarmé), “Mon rêve familier” (P. Verlaine), “Ophélie” (A. Rimbaud).
– Personal impressions: first impressions of students reading the proposed texts;
– Sources, resources: the sources given by the teacher and supplemented by those that the students search on their own;
– My notes: notes written by students about work in progress;
– Language work: remarks on language or vocabulary;
– Analysis and comprehension: student analysis work, often driven by the teacher’s presentation;
– Writing activities: written work requested by the teacher.

In the classroom instruction, the French teacher navigated freely between different tasks that she had given to the students (search for information, writing, reading, presentations), and she encouraged them to collect everything in their individual eZBs. She also guided the students in their note taking and gave them advice on how to structure their notes.