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Telecommunications in Telecommunications in the Classroomthe Classroom
Kristie Korth Kristie Korth
Julie TroubaJulie Trouba Erica AdamsErica Adams Michelle PleissMichelle Pleiss
Telecommunications in Telecommunications in the Classroomthe Classroom
DefinitionsDefinitions Educational Educational
TelecollaborationTelecollaboration Distance Distance
Education/DistancEducation/Distance Learninge Learning
Classroom Classroom Equipment and Equipment and MaterialsMaterials
DefinitionsDefinitions
TelecommunicatioTelecommunicationsns
Tele-accessTele-access Virtual PublishingVirtual Publishing Tele-presenceTele-presence Tele-mentoringTele-mentoring Tele-sharingTele-sharing
Educational Educational TelecollaborationTelecollaboration
What is a What is a Telecollaborative Telecollaborative ActivityActivity
Telecollaboration Telecollaboration BenefitsBenefits
Telecollaboration Telecollaboration IndexesIndexes
Choosing Choosing TelecollaborationTelecollaboration
What to do after you What to do after you find the Perfect Projectfind the Perfect Project
What is a What is a Telecollaborative ActivityTelecollaborative Activity
It is an educational It is an educational endeavor that involves endeavor that involves people in different locationspeople in different locations
Most educational Most educational telecollaboration is telecollaboration is curriculum-based, teacher-curriculum-based, teacher-designed, and teacher designed, and teacher coordinatedcoordinated
Most use email to help Most use email to help participants communicate with participants communicate with eachothereachother
Many telecollaborative Many telecollaborative activities and projects have activities and projects have Web sites to support themWeb sites to support them
Telecollaborative BenefitsTelecollaborative Benefits
Students are being exposed Students are being exposed to differing opinions, to differing opinions, perspectives, beliefs, perspectives, beliefs, experiences, and thinking experiences, and thinking processesprocesses
Students can compare, Students can compare, contrast, and/or combine contrast, and/or combine similar information collected similar information collected in dissimilar locationsin dissimilar locations
Students are communicating Students are communicating with a real audience using with a real audience using text and imagerytext and imagery
Students are expanding Students are expanding their global awarenesstheir global awareness
Telecollaboration IndexesTelecollaboration Indexes
KIDPROJ www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ KIDPROJ www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ I*EARN Projects I*EARN Projects
www.igc.apc.org/iearn/projects. www.igc.apc.org/iearn/projects. html html
NickNacks Telecollaboration NickNacks Telecollaboration www1.minn.net/~schubert/ www1.minn.net/~schubert/ EdHelpers.htmlEdHelpers.html
Blue Web’n Blue Web’n www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/ www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/ bluewebn/bluewebn/
Innovative Teaching Projects Innovative Teaching Projects www.interserf.net/mcken/projects.www.interserf.net/mcken/projects.htm htm
Choosing the Choosing the TelecollaborationTelecollaboration
When choosing a When choosing a telecollaboration telecollaboration to join, the most to join, the most important criteria important criteria to use addresses to use addresses students’ learning students’ learning needs and needs and preferencespreferences
After Finding the Perfect After Finding the Perfect ProjectProject
Commit to participation, and Commit to participation, and communicate that decisioncommunicate that decision
Familiarize yourself with the Familiarize yourself with the specifics of participation specifics of participation requirements for your chosen requirements for your chosen projects*projects*
Schedule students’ project-Schedule students’ project-related work on your class related work on your class calendar allowing twice the calendar allowing twice the normally required time*normally required time*
Gather the necessary resources Gather the necessary resources that you will use to support and that you will use to support and enrich your students’ work*enrich your students’ work*
Tell your students what is Tell your students what is coming*coming*
Distance Distance Learning/Distance Learning/Distance
EducationEducation
The term “Distance Learning” The term “Distance Learning” is often interchanged with is often interchanged with “Distance Education”.“Distance Education”.
However, Distance Learning However, Distance Learning is really the result of Distance is really the result of Distance Education.Education.
Distance Education is defined Distance Education is defined as:as: the instructional delivery the instructional delivery that does not constrain the that does not constrain the student to be physically student to be physically present in the same location present in the same location as the instructor.as the instructor.
Defining Elements of Defining Elements of Distance EducationDistance Education
The separation of teacher The separation of teacher and learner during the and learner during the majority of the majority of the instructional processinstructional process
The use of educational The use of educational media to unite teacher, media to unite teacher, learner, and course contentlearner, and course content
Two-way communication Two-way communication between teacher, tutor, or between teacher, tutor, or educational agency and educational agency and learnerlearner
Distance Education Distance Education Delivery SystemsDelivery Systems
Synchronous:Synchronous: requires requires simultaneous participation simultaneous participation of all students and of all students and instructorsinstructors
Forms of deliveryForms of delivery - interactive TV, - interactive TV, audiographics, & audiographics, & computerconferencing computerconferencing
Asynchronous: Asynchronous: Does not Does not require the simultaneous require the simultaneous participation of all students participation of all students and instructors.and instructors.
Forms of deliveryForms of delivery - email, listservs, - email, listservs, audiocassette courses, videotaped audiocassette courses, videotaped courses, correspondence courses, courses, correspondence courses, and WWW-based coursesand WWW-based courses
Choosing Forms/ModesChoosing Forms/Modes
FirstFirst, determine , determine what your what your educational need or educational need or goal may be.goal may be.
Next, Next, you must you must assess the assess the characteristics and characteristics and needs of your needs of your learning audience.learning audience.
Potential Student LearningPotential Student Learning
““Integrated sound, Integrated sound, motion, image, and motion, image, and text create a rich new text create a rich new learning environment learning environment awash with possibility awash with possibility and a clear potential and a clear potential to increase student to increase student involvement in the involvement in the learning process” learning process” (Task Force on Distance (Task Force on Distance Education, 1992).Education, 1992).
Wiring your ClassroomWiring your Classroom
Input tools for the Input tools for the Classroom.Classroom.
How classrooms How classrooms are changing.are changing.
Input ToolsInput Tools
Digital CamerasDigital Cameras ScannersScanners CamcordersCamcorders Web CamsWeb Cams Music PlayersMusic Players
Digital CamerasDigital Cameras
New and Easy to New and Easy to useuse
Plug-and-playPlug-and-play Connect Connect
Computer to Computer to ComputerComputer
ScannersScanners
Import picturesImport pictures Scan high quality Scan high quality
picturespictures
How do kids use these How do kids use these items?items?
Produce filmsProduce films Add special Add special
effectseffects Manipulate Manipulate
soundssounds
ConclusionConclusion
Impact of Impact of telecommunicatiotelecommunicationsns
Classroom Classroom learninglearning
Student learning Student learning stylesstyles