Telecommunications in the Classroom

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Telecommunications in the Classroom

• Kristie Korth
• Julie Trouba
• Erica Adams
• Michelle Pleiss

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Telecommunications in the Classroom

• Definitions
• Educational Telecollaboration
• Distance Education/Distance Learning
• Classroom Equipment and Materials

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Definitions

• Telecommunications
• Tele-access
• Virtual Publishing
• Tele-presence
• Tele-mentoring
• Tele-sharing

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Educational Telecollaboration

• What is a Telecollaborative Activity
• Telecollaboration Benefits
• Telecollaboration Indexes
• Choosing Telecollaboration
• What to do after you find the Perfect Project

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What is a Telecollaborative Activity

• It is an educational endeavor that involves
  people in different locations
• Most educational telecollaboration is
  curriculum-based, teacher-designed, and teacher
  coordinated
• Most use email to help participants communicate
  with eachother
• Many telecollaborative activities and projects
  have Web sites to support them

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Telecollaborative Benefits

• Students are being exposed to differing opinions,
  perspectives, beliefs, experiences, and thinking
  processes
• Students can compare, contrast, and/or combine
  similar information collected in dissimilar
  locations
• Students are communicating with a real audience
  using text and imagery
• Students are expanding their global awareness

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Telecollaboration Indexes

• KIDPROJ www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ
• IEARN Projects www.igc.apc.org/iearn/projects.
  html
• NickNacks Telecollaboration
  www1.minn.net/schubert/ EdHelpers.html
• Blue Webn www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/ bluewebn/
• Innovative Teaching Projects www.interserf.net/mck
  en/projects.htm

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Choosing the Telecollaboration

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

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After Finding the Perfect Project

• Commit to participation, and communicate that
  decision
• Familiarize yourself with the specifics of
  participation requirements for your chosen
  projects
• Schedule students project-related work on your
  class calendar allowing twice the normally
  required time
• Gather the necessary resources that you will use
  to support and enrich your students work
• Tell your students what is coming

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Distance Learning/Distance Education

• The term Distance Learning is often
  interchanged with Distance Education.
• However, Distance Learning is really the result
  of Distance Education.
• Distance Education is defined as the
  instructional delivery that does not constrain
  the student to be physically present in the same
  location as the instructor.

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Defining Elements of Distance Education

• The separation of teacher and learner during the
  majority of the instructional process
• The use of educational media to unite teacher,
  learner, and course content
• Two-way communication between teacher, tutor, or
  educational agency and learner

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Distance Education Delivery Systems

• Synchronous requires simultaneous participation
  of all students and instructors
• Forms of delivery - interactive TV,
  audiographics, computerconferencing
• Asynchronous Does not require the
  simultaneous participation of all students and
  instructors.
• Forms of delivery - email, listservs,
  audiocassette courses, videotaped courses,
  correspondence courses, and WWW-based courses

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Choosing Forms/Modes

• First, determine what your educational need or
  goal may be.
• Next, you must assess the characteristics and
  needs of your learning audience.

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Potential Student Learning

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

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Wiring your Classroom

• Input tools for the Classroom.
• How classrooms are changing.

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Input Tools

• Digital Cameras
• Scanners
• Camcorders
• Web Cams
• Music Players

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Digital Cameras

• New and Easy to use
• Plug-and-play
• Connect Computer to Computer

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Scanners

• Import pictures
• Scan high quality pictures

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How do kids use these items?

• Produce films
• Add special effects
• Manipulate sounds

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Conclusion

• Impact of telecommunications
• Classroom learning
• Student learning styles