Workshop topics:
1. Internet introduction. Tapping into the vast educational resource Surfing for educational links. Library and museum resources. College Links and scholarship information2. Searching the net - finding what you are looking for. Using Search engines effectively to exploring the net for content specific links.
3. Navigation and Interaction Finding ways to control your browser activities. Bookmarking favorite sites. Saving graphics.
4. Email Using email to communicate with colleagues and students. Pen pal opportunities for students to exchange ideas with students in other places.
5. Creating Digital Postcards Creating picture postcards with music and backgrounds will be demonstrated and implimented by participants.
6. Web page design Using a word processor to create html documents. Basic elements of HTML coding needed to create web pages.
7. Classroom integration session Helping students conceptualize how isolated software applications should merge together seamlessly, within the instructional setting.
8. Uses of educational technology that improve the quality effectiveness, access to or outcome of education. Uses that, for example create new educational opportunities, tools or techniques.
Discrete skills: Web page design, navigating the web, use of the search engines, making and using bookmarks, and sending email. Behaviors: Checking and answering email, researching relevant material, editing web pages, retrieving digital postcards and using bookmarks. Knowlege: Collecting bookmarks pertinent to discipline and instructional needs. Using search engine to address specific topic initiated inquiry. Collection of bookmarks for pen pal opportunities through student exchange and collaborations. Use of Internet as a content specific instructional resource.