Slide 1: Communication Devices
Slide 2: E-mail
Regular mail was called “snail mail” once e-mail was introduced. Now what used to be the wave of the future is now being neglected by those of the N Generation.
Slide 3: Instant Messaging
Instead of e-mail, today’s students are sending Instant messages to one another.
Slide 4: Let’s look at similarities and differences
E-mail
Instant Messaging
Students use to send assignments to teachers Not in real time, there are delays in sending/receiving A person may not be online to receive your message Spam messages (messages from ad companies) interrupt your work Can be done on a cell phone that has web access Secure
Stud e n t p re fe rre d
Students use as a communication device Done in real time so responses are immediate You can tell when someone is online by looking at your device Only your friends (buddies) can contact you. Increases productivity Can be done on a cell phone without web access Not secure, messages can be hacked into
Slide 5: Use IM to your advantage
IM can be used in the classroom in a variety of ways:
• Share files, pictures, links, video, sounds • Virtual conference • Collaborate on projects • Create a chat room
Slide 6: Netiquette
Netiquette is defined as computer etiquette. How you act online reflects who you are as a person.
Slide 7: If you don’t mind your manners…
Undesired behavior to use on the Internet: • YELLING (typing in all capitals) • Flaming (yelling at a person in a chat room, message board) • Sarcasm (people may think you are serious) • Being a troll (made up person used to annoy others) • MUD (made up drama to instigate a fight) Spelling counts! If you have a lot of typos, grammatical errors, or spelling mistakes, the opinion others have of you is lowered. Netiquette doesn’t end when the computer is shut down. Disturbances continue via cell phones. • Talking loudly while in public, texting (txt) while in the company of others are all offensive behaviors.
Slide 8: Software and Web 2.0 Tools
Slide 9: Web 1.0 verses 2.0
Web 1.0 was about reading, Web 2.0 is about writing Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is about communities Web 1.0 was about client-server, Web 2.0 is about peer to peer Web 1.0 was about HTML, Web 2.0 is about XML Web 1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about blogs Web 1.0 was about portals, Web 2.0 is about RSS Web 1.0 was about taxonomy, Web 2.0 is about tags Web 1.0 was about wires, Web 2.0 is about wireless Web 1.0 was about owning, Web 2.0 is about sharing Web 1.0 was about IPOs, Web 2.0 is about trade sales Web 1.0 was about Netscape, Web 2.0 is about Google Web 1.0 was about web forms, Web 2.0 is about web applications Web 1.0 was about screen scraping, Web 2.0 is about APIs Web 1.0 was about dialup, Web 2.0 is about broadband Web 1.0 was about hardware costs, Web 2.0 is about bandwidth costs Taken from http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2006/05/29/web-20-vs-web-10/
Slide 10: Web 2.0
Slide 11: Plurk.com
Similar to twitter ( http://twitter.com/ ) It is a social networking tool Very short posts are posted in time line sequence according to day and time. You can earn “Karma points” and reach “Nirvana” if you earn enough. http://www.plurk.com/user/milasunshine click here and visit Dr.Smirnova’s Plurk http://blog.plurk.com/ click here to read a blog on plurking!
Pros + + +
•It has an attractive look •It has users from all over the world •It lets you in on the insignificant bits of life that really let you know who a person is.
Cons - - •I did see some young users on like 14 •Not safe for classroom use because there is no way to edit other peoples plurks and what they write.So students have access to all posts.
Slide 12: Ajax
asynchronous loading of content in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page
(wikipedia)
http://www.asp.net/ajax/ click here to get it!
With ASP.NET AJAX you can: (taken from the site above)
Create next-generation interfaces with reusable AJAX components. Enhance existing pages using powerful AJAX controls with support for all modern browsers. Access remote services and data from the browser without tons of complicated script. Take advantage of the improved efficiency and ease of use in Visual Studio 2008, with its built-in support for ASP.NET AJAX, improved JavaScript support, and a new Web page designer interface
Slide 13: RSS
Really Simple Sindication The benefit of RSS is the aggregation of content from multiple Web sources in one place. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with web sites in an automated manner that can be piped into special programs or filtered displays. An RSS document is called a feed or webfeed. You need an RSS reader to read the feed. Taken from Wikipedia
Slide 14: The Internet and the World Wide Web
The Internet is a world wid e, publicly accessible series of interconnected computer networks. It consists of millions of smaller networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked web pages and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW). The World Wide Web (a.k.a. the Web or www) is a system of interlinked hypertexts documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, a person can view Web pages that contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia.
Slide 15: Search Engines
One of the tools that we use to search the Web is called a search engine. We use search engines to find information on web pages, to find images, and other kinds of files. Web search engines work by storing information about many web pages, which they retrieve from the WWW. The pages are retrieved by an automated Web browser which follows every link it sees. Then the contents of each page are analyzed to determine how it should be indexed.
Slide 16: How to use a search engine
Most search engines give the choice to do a basic search or an advanced search. For example, for a basic search in Google, if I was looking for information on the parts of a flower, I would simply type those words in and click Google Search. A list of sites would pop up on that topic. I would then have to look at the sites to see which one I would like to get information from. I could also use advanced search in Google which provides a more direct search. In the advanced search, I might narrow my search by put keywords like “pistil” or “stamen.” I might also decide I don’t want the word “photosynthesis” to show up on any of the pages. I can so this in the advanced search.
Slide 17: Po pular se arc h e ng ine s and m e tase arc h e ng ine s
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2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
http://www.lycos.com/ http://www.yahoo.com/ http://www.altavista.com/ http://www.excite.com/ http://www.hotbot.com/ http://www.google.com/ http://search.aol.com/ http://www.live.com/
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http://www.metacrawler.com/ http://www.dogpile.com/ http://www.askjeeves.com/ http://www.savvysearch.com/ http://www.kartoo.com/
Slide 18: Implications for Teaching
Slide 19: Maximize teaching success by:
Understanding the students we are teaching Create environment that optimizes student strengths and their minimizes weaknesses
Slide 20: Who Are The Learners:
Recognize need to engage students in dialogue to better understand their perspective Recognize similarities and differences between students and faculty
Slide 21: Similarities
All students expect the social interaction of meeting people and networking with them
Slide 22: Differences
Mindset of net generation students and faculty differ because deal with information differently:
• Visual-spatial skills • Inductive discovery • Attention span • Response time
Slide 23: Create Optimum Environment
Student skills enhanced by technology can’t be ignored:
- Graphics awareness - Random access - Parallel processing
Exploit the following skills and needs
- Digital literacy - Multitasking abilities - Image-rich environment - Collaborative interaction
Slide 24: Optimum Environment
Active, social, learner-centered environment with appropriate use of technology and differentiation of instruction to fit all learning styles
Slide 25: Resources
http:// communication.howstuffworks.com/email.htm http://communication.howstuffworks.com/instant-me http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2006/05/29/web-20-vs http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2006/05/29/web-20-v http://www.albion.com/netiquette/ http://www.asp.net/ajax/ http://www.dogstar.org/drupal/node/435 http://www.mobileinfo.com/Current_Topics/instant_m http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ict/instantmessage.h http://www.wikipedia.org/
