ET630 Agenda Class 2

• Announcements and Questions
  • Check out examples of projects from previous semesters
  • Questions
• Discussion of Readings
• Bruce, "Education Online: Learning Anywhere, Any Time"
• Shade, "Protecting the Kids? Debates Over Internet Content"
  • What problematic material exists on the Web?
  • What has Shade suggested are the possible solutions?
  • What works?
• Harris, Chapter 1 "Why Activity Structures?"
• Reference Material for Review
  • Email
    • Introduction to Email Addresses
    • Loyola's Groupwise System
    • Electronic Mail Etiquette
  • Listservs
    • List of Educational Listservs
    • List of More-Likely-To-Be-Active Listservs
    • Listserv Etiquette
• Internet Projects on the World Wide Web
  • Science Resources and Projects
  • The World Weather Watch Project In-Depth
  • A Closer Look at 3 Projects
    • GLOBE Project
    • World Weather Watch Project
    • Signs of Autumn/Signs of Spring
• Creating a Blog
  • http://www.blogger.com/
  • http://www.edublogs.org/
• The Case of "Black Invention Myths"
  • Find your group. Discuss what the Shade article might say about this site.
• Assignments:
  • Take survey by tonight (everyone already has--thank you)
  • Create a blog account and email the address to the class
  • Read Nunberg, Teaching Students to Swim in the Online Sea
  • Read Bruce, "Credibility on the Web" (PDF file, Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
  • Read Harris, Chapter 2, pp. 15-40 "Curriculum Based Telecollaboration"

This page was prepared by: David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.

Last updated: September 19, 2008