NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 1 May 2000 (#2000-244)
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1. UPDATED> [DUC] May-June Issue of The Technology Source
2. PROJ> [HILITES] Ages 7-10: Book Rap: Matilda
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Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 14:07:45 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: UPDATED> [DUC] May-June Issue of The Technology Source
From: "James L. Morrison" <morr...@unc.edu>
To: <d...@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 12:41 PM
Subject: [DUC] May-June Issue of The Technology Source
Below is a description of the May-June 2000 issue of The Technology
Source, a free refereed Web periodical at http://horizon.unc.edu/TS
Please forward this announcement to colleagues who are interested in using
information technology tools more effectively in their work.
As always, we seek illuminating articles that will assist educators as
they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools in
teaching and in managing educational organizations. Please review our call
for manuscripts at http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/call.asp and send me a note
if you would like to contribute such an article.
Jim
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James L. Morrison morr...@unc.edu
Professor of Educational Leadership CB 3500 Peabody Hall
Editor, On the Horizon UNC-Chapel Hill
http://horizon.unc.edu/horizon Chapel Hill,NC 27599-3500
Editor, The Technology Source Phone: 919 962-2517
http://horizon.unc.edu/TS Fax: 919 962-1693
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Greg Priest's vision of education transcends simply using the Internet to
supplement current teaching methods. In an interview with editor James L.
Morrison, Priest tells The Technology Source how technology can help
educators create targeted materials for each of their students, update
materials constantly for the most current learning experiences, and
collaborate not only with students at adjacent desks but also with
students half a world away.
As educators explore the potential of the Internet, options for
international education will undoubtedly blossom: Students studying
Spanish in San Francisco will be able to learn from an instructor living
in Madrid. Historians interested in the Incan empire will be able to
correspond with Peruvian professors working in Cuzco. Prospective
entrepreneurs in Moscow will be able to study under economics professors
based at Stanford or Harvard. In order to take advantage of these options,
educators need to know how to negotiate the linguistic, economic, and
sociocultural differences among themselves and with students. Stephen
Downes provides enlightening commentary on the issues involved in
international education.
Barry Willis gives away nine "secrets" about distance education in this
issue's second Commentary article. Uncovering the problems both with some
traditionalists' complete disdain for distance learning and with some
advocates' unthinking embrace of it, Willis reminds readers that
technology cannot alone transform the educational process. Instead, Willis
argues, technology must be handled skillfully and sensitively as educators
manage the dramatic changes he predicts it will effect.
Virtual universities often face many challenges in establishing themselves
as equal players in the field of education. As these new institutions seek
to earn prospective students' trust, they must prove not only that they
can provide good academic training but also that they can maintain online
privacy. As Gary Gatien tells Technology Source readers, trust will
develop only when virtual universities consistently and carefully nurture
quality relationships with their students.
When the Faculty Development Committee of the Indiana Partnership for
Statewide Education asked Indiana teachers how they had incorporated
technology to enhance their students' experiences, thirty faculty members
responded with enthusiastic reports. Nancy Millichap summarizes some of
their most exciting findings in this issue's case study. Some students had
their needs fully met for the first time; other students had their needs
fundamentally transformed.
In this issue's critical reading section, Gary Brown and Lisa
Johnson-Shull report on several recent investigations into the difference
between pedagogical theories of online education and actual classroom
praxis. Brown and Johnson-Shull also survey current research on issues of
student agency, involvement, and authority, as well as the balance between
course content and facilitated student interaction. Educators interested
in the most up-to-date research into online education won't want to miss
Brown and Johnson-Shull's analysis.
If you have ever wished for free Web-based e-mail, your own listserv
service, more efficient searching mechanisms, or a way to monitor your
favorite Web sites for changes, Bernard Glassman has some free and handy
tools for you. Drawing on his extensive explorations of the Web, Glassman
evaluates and recommends several sites that will save lots of time and
energy, leaving you with more of both to devote to reading The Technology
Source.
Bucknell University has seen the number of its faculty members with online
course materials increase threefold within two years. How has this
happened? The simplicity of the answer to this question may come as a
surprise. Robert Beard and a few of his colleagues, concerned about the
reluctance of some other faculty members and administrators to pursue
Web-based learning, designed a resource page that could connect interested
instructors with experienced ones, provide technical assistance to
beginners, and credit on-campus innovators in online learning. As Beard
tells it, the success they experienced in this easy faculty and staff
development effort makes their investment of just a little time more than
worthwhile.
When the men and women at the United States Department of Defense wanted
to ensure that cutting-edge training materials would be available to
members of our armed forces, they created this issue's spotlight site, the
Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative Web page. Stephen Downes tells
The Technology Source about the course models on the ADL page that are a
must-see for any reader interested in new models for Web-based education.
This issue's Letter to the Editor continues a debate about Heriot-Watt
University's distance learning MBA program, a conversation that began with
Fred Nichols' article on Heriot-Watt in our January-February issue. The
article prompted an exchange of letters printed in our last issue between
Nichols and Peter Calladine, educational services manager of the
Association of MBAs based in London. Now, a student in the Heriot-Watt MBA
program joins the fray with a passionate defense of his institution. Read
on to learn why Deepak Tripathi believes that Heriot-Watt deserves
"unqualified praise."
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Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 14:36:21 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: PROJ> [HILITES] Ages 7-10: Book Rap: Matilda
From: "Gary Francis" <gary.f...@KULUINSS.QLD.EDU.AU>
To: <HIL...@LISTS.LIGHTSPAN.COM>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 9:39 AM
Subject: [HILITES] Ages 7-10: Book Rap: Matilda
Project Information
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Project Author: Gary Francis <gary.f...@kuluinss.qld.edu.au>
Project Title: Book Rap: Matilda
Project Begin & End Dates: 5/02/00 to 6/12/00
Project Summary:
Email-based discussion by students, covering concepts raised in the Roald
Dahl book "Matilda".
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Project Details
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Project Level: Basic
Curriculum Area: Community Interest, Information Technology, Language
Technologies Used: Email
Project Sponsor: Nil
Full Project Description:
Each week I will post rap points to all registered on the mail list. The
students then respond and may respond also to the comments of others. The
rap points will be open-ended and are designed to promote thoughtful
responses.
Objectives:
1. To develop email skills.
2. To improve understandings of people from other cultures.
3. To develop critical thinking skills.
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Project Registration Information
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Project Email Address: gary.f...@kuluinss.qld.edu.au
Registration Acceptance Dates: 5/01/00 to 6/12/00
Number of Classrooms: open
Age Range: 7 to 10 years
Target Audience: Anyone
Project URL:
http://www.pa.ash.org.au/rite/projects/book-rap/form1/displaypage.asp?id=75
Registration Instructions:
For more information on Book Raps in general go to:
http://rite.ed.qut.edu.au/oz-teachernet/projects/book-rap/index.html
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Project Contact Information
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Gary Francis - mailto:gary.f...@kuluinss.qld.edu.au
mailto:franci...@hotmail.com
teacher - Kuluin State School
http://www.kuluinss.qld.edu.au
Kuluin, Queensland,AU
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