Telecommunications in Telecommunications in the Classroomthe Classroom

Kristie Korth Kristie Korth

Julie TroubaJulie Trouba Erica AdamsErica Adams Michelle PleissMichelle Pleiss

Telecommunications in Telecommunications in the Classroomthe Classroom

DefinitionsDefinitions Educational Educational

TelecollaborationTelecollaboration Distance Distance

Education/DistancEducation/Distance Learninge Learning

Classroom Classroom Equipment and Equipment and MaterialsMaterials

DefinitionsDefinitions

TelecommunicatioTelecommunicationsns

Tele-accessTele-access Virtual PublishingVirtual Publishing Tele-presenceTele-presence Tele-mentoringTele-mentoring Tele-sharingTele-sharing

Educational Educational TelecollaborationTelecollaboration

What is a What is a Telecollaborative Telecollaborative ActivityActivity

Telecollaboration Telecollaboration BenefitsBenefits

Telecollaboration Telecollaboration IndexesIndexes

Choosing Choosing TelecollaborationTelecollaboration

What to do after you What to do after you find the Perfect Projectfind the Perfect Project

What is a What is a Telecollaborative ActivityTelecollaborative Activity

It is an educational It is an educational endeavor that involves endeavor that involves people in different locationspeople in different locations

Most educational Most educational telecollaboration is telecollaboration is curriculum-based, teacher-curriculum-based, teacher-designed, and teacher designed, and teacher coordinatedcoordinated

Most use email to help Most use email to help participants communicate with participants communicate with eachothereachother

Many telecollaborative Many telecollaborative activities and projects have activities and projects have Web sites to support themWeb sites to support them

Telecollaborative BenefitsTelecollaborative Benefits

Students are being exposed Students are being exposed to differing opinions, to differing opinions, perspectives, beliefs, perspectives, beliefs, experiences, and thinking experiences, and thinking processesprocesses

Students can compare, Students can compare, contrast, and/or combine contrast, and/or combine similar information collected similar information collected in dissimilar locationsin dissimilar locations

Students are communicating Students are communicating with a real audience using with a real audience using text and imagerytext and imagery

Students are expanding Students are expanding their global awarenesstheir global awareness

Telecollaboration IndexesTelecollaboration Indexes

KIDPROJ www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ KIDPROJ www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ I*EARN Projects I*EARN Projects

www.igc.apc.org/iearn/projects. www.igc.apc.org/iearn/projects. html html

NickNacks Telecollaboration NickNacks Telecollaboration www1.minn.net/~schubert/ www1.minn.net/~schubert/ EdHelpers.htmlEdHelpers.html

Blue Web’n Blue Web’n www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/ www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/ bluewebn/bluewebn/

Innovative Teaching Projects Innovative Teaching Projects www.interserf.net/mcken/projects.www.interserf.net/mcken/projects.htm htm

Choosing the Choosing the TelecollaborationTelecollaboration

When choosing a When choosing a telecollaboration telecollaboration to join, the most to join, the most important criteria important criteria to use addresses to use addresses students’ learning students’ learning needs and needs and preferencespreferences

After Finding the Perfect After Finding the Perfect ProjectProject

Commit to participation, and Commit to participation, and communicate that decisioncommunicate that decision

Familiarize yourself with the Familiarize yourself with the specifics of participation specifics of participation requirements for your chosen requirements for your chosen projects*projects*

Schedule students’ project-Schedule students’ project-related work on your class related work on your class calendar allowing twice the calendar allowing twice the normally required time*normally required time*

Gather the necessary resources Gather the necessary resources that you will use to support and that you will use to support and enrich your students’ work*enrich your students’ work*

Tell your students what is Tell your students what is coming*coming*

Distance Distance Learning/Distance Learning/Distance

EducationEducation

The term “Distance Learning” The term “Distance Learning” is often interchanged with is often interchanged with “Distance Education”.“Distance Education”.

However, Distance Learning However, Distance Learning is really the result of Distance is really the result of Distance Education.Education.

Distance Education is defined Distance Education is defined as:as: the instructional delivery the instructional delivery that does not constrain the that does not constrain the student to be physically student to be physically present in the same location present in the same location as the instructor.as the instructor.

Defining Elements of Defining Elements of Distance EducationDistance Education

The separation of teacher The separation of teacher and learner during the and learner during the majority of the majority of the instructional processinstructional process

The use of educational The use of educational media to unite teacher, media to unite teacher, learner, and course contentlearner, and course content

Two-way communication Two-way communication between teacher, tutor, or between teacher, tutor, or educational agency and educational agency and learnerlearner

Distance Education Distance Education Delivery SystemsDelivery Systems

Synchronous:Synchronous: requires requires simultaneous participation simultaneous participation of all students and of all students and instructorsinstructors

Forms of deliveryForms of delivery - interactive TV, - interactive TV, audiographics, & audiographics, & computerconferencing computerconferencing

Asynchronous: Asynchronous: Does not Does not require the simultaneous require the simultaneous participation of all students participation of all students and instructors.and instructors.

Forms of deliveryForms of delivery - email, listservs, - email, listservs, audiocassette courses, videotaped audiocassette courses, videotaped courses, correspondence courses, courses, correspondence courses, and WWW-based coursesand WWW-based courses

Choosing Forms/ModesChoosing Forms/Modes

FirstFirst, determine , determine what your what your educational need or educational need or goal may be.goal may be.

Next, Next, you must you must assess the assess the characteristics and characteristics and needs of your needs of your learning audience.learning audience.

Potential Student LearningPotential Student Learning

““Integrated sound, Integrated sound, motion, image, and motion, image, and text create a rich new text create a rich new learning environment learning environment awash with possibility awash with possibility and a clear potential and a clear potential to increase student to increase student involvement in the involvement in the learning process” learning process” (Task Force on Distance (Task Force on Distance Education, 1992).Education, 1992).

Wiring your ClassroomWiring your Classroom

Input tools for the Input tools for the Classroom.Classroom.

How classrooms How classrooms are changing.are changing.

Input ToolsInput Tools

Digital CamerasDigital Cameras ScannersScanners CamcordersCamcorders Web CamsWeb Cams Music PlayersMusic Players

Digital CamerasDigital Cameras

New and Easy to New and Easy to useuse

Plug-and-playPlug-and-play Connect Connect

Computer to Computer to ComputerComputer

ScannersScanners

Import picturesImport pictures Scan high quality Scan high quality

picturespictures

How do kids use these How do kids use these items?items?

Produce filmsProduce films Add special Add special

effectseffects Manipulate Manipulate

soundssounds

ConclusionConclusion

Impact of Impact of telecommunicatiotelecommunicationsns

Classroom Classroom learninglearning

Student learning Student learning stylesstyles