Potential Problems with the Internet:
1. accessing sites with inappropriate materials
2. safety and privacy issues for students
- online predators
- sales pitches aimed at children
- privacy issues
- cyberbullying
3. fraud on the internet
4. Computer viruses and hacking
- email attachments with viruses
- downloaded files and programs with viruses
5. Copyright and plagiarism issues
Types of search engines:
major search engines
- Google
- Yahoo!
- Bing
metacrawlers: use more than one search engine at the same time to locate things
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Using the Internet to Communicate:
teach with twitter: top ten ways
- Twit board: Notify students of changes to course content, schedules, venues or other important info.
- "summing up": ask students to read an article or chapter and then post brief summary or key points.
- "twit links" share a hyperlink to useful site they have found
- "twitter stalking" follow a famous person, like president, and document their progress
- Time tweet: choose a famous person from the past and create a Twitter account for them; choose an image and write regular tweets as this person might have
- Micro meet: hold discussions involving all subscribing students
- Micro Write: progressive collaborative writing on twitter
- Lingua tweeta: good for modern language learning
- tweming: start off a meme(idea); agree on a common hash tag
- twitter pals: find a twitter penpal. good for learning about people from other cultures
Bulletin Boards: are sometimes known as "threaded discussions" and are very common in educational content management systems such as blackboard and Moodle.
Blogs: a web page that serves as a publicly accessible location for discussing a topic or issue.
Wikis: integration strategies: document research projects, build collaborative bibliographies, design online courses by using it as a content management system, provide a reflective tool for teachers and students in any learning experience
- Dog pile
- vivisimo
- kartoo
- mamma
Using the Internet to Communicate:
- Twit board: Notify students of changes to course content, schedules, venues or other important info.
- "summing up": ask students to read an article or chapter and then post brief summary or key points.
- "twit links" share a hyperlink to useful site they have found
- "twitter stalking" follow a famous person, like president, and document their progress
- Time tweet: choose a famous person from the past and create a Twitter account for them; choose an image and write regular tweets as this person might have
- Micro meet: hold discussions involving all subscribing students
- Micro Write: progressive collaborative writing on twitter
- Lingua tweeta: good for modern language learning
- tweming: start off a meme(idea); agree on a common hash tag
- twitter pals: find a twitter penpal. good for learning about people from other cultures
Bulletin Boards: are sometimes known as "threaded discussions" and are very common in educational content management systems such as blackboard and Moodle.
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