This page is for the Instructional Applications of the Internet course, Summer, 2009, at Kent State University. Members of that class may add to this page as well as create and link to new pages.
The topic here is how to integrate the Internet into teaching at all levels. It used to be that meant just a couple of things: making a Web page and using email or discussion boards. No longer, we now have a variety of new technologies on the Internet including collaborative sites such as Google Docs or more elaborate ones, podcasts, wikis, blogs, Twitter, social bookmarking, and many others. In addition, one of the hottest topics in higher education at least is blended learning, where course designs try to make the best use of both the f2f classroom and online resources and interactivity.
What are some of the things that we could produce here?
- Process: how should teachers at all levels approach the question of integrating the Internet into their teaching?
- Research and Resources: how can teachers find the best information resources for their classes? How can students learn to do good research and evaluate the results?
- Collaboration: how can teachers get students genuinely collaborate in ways that enhance and expand learning?
- Technologies: how can we help teachers find the technologies that genuinely enhance their teaching rather than just going along with the latest fads?
Class members should use this wiki and its resources as well as the discussion board in Vista to decide what they want to do, how to organize it, who is doing what, and so forth. In the wiki, you should keep everything you do in this section. This page will be the home page, and you can easily create new ones with the link button in the editor. Keep the page names short and think about how the whole thing is organized and how somebody coming to this from the outside will be able to find useful information. You may link to outside resources, but it is important that the class develop original content as well.
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