Saturday, June 2, 2012

Chapter 7: Distance Learning and Role of the Internet

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
  • Dog pile
  • vivisimo
  • kartoo
  • mamma

Using the Internet to Communicate:

teach with twitter: top ten ways
  1. Twit board: Notify students of changes to course content, schedules, venues or other important info.
  2. "summing up": ask students to read an article or chapter and then post brief summary or key points.
  3. "twit links" share a hyperlink to useful site they have found
  4. "twitter stalking" follow a famous person, like president, and document their progress
  5. 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
  6. Micro meet: hold discussions involving all subscribing students
  7. Micro Write: progressive collaborative writing on twitter
  8. Lingua tweeta: good for modern language learning
  9. tweming: start off a meme(idea); agree on a common hash tag
  10. 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



        

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