from smoke signals to the Internet

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FROM SMOKE SIGNALS.
to the..
.INTERNET
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Session Outline

• Introduction
• hands on (chat, bulletin board)
• discussion

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from smoke signals to the Internet

• Man - the compulsive communicator
• (David Attenborough)

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Revolutions in Communication

• print
• telephone
• fax
• video conferencing
• cmc (computer mediated communication)

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Suspicion (the Luddite view)

• telephones would never work
• role of women - initial resistance
• majority of Internet users are now female (55)

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Computer Mediated Communication (CMC)

• email
• text based
• voice
• forums/bulletin boards
• chat
• typing talking
• voice chat
• video

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Why should I bother?
2004 - only 14 of jobs WILL NOT require some
degree of technological fluency. (networking 99
conference)
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WHY ONLINE DELIVERY?

• approx 1M Australian households now with Internet
  access (1998)
• Australia has 4M Internet users 20 of the
  population!
• QLD TAFE Study 18 - 20 have the capacity, and
  want online delivery option

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SA TAFE - POTENTIAL DEMAND(1998)

• if 18 - 20 of TAFE SA students want online
  option..
• currently 90,000 TAFE SA students
• 18 of 90,000 16,200 students!

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What does it mean to be online?

• It can be done in the classroom
• Think to a future when all classrooms have
  computers (like this one)
• use the Internets communication tools as an
  adjunct to classroom delivery

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DMI server
CF5
TAFE server (city)
destination
the journey of an Internet message
Uni of Adelaide
USA
Sydney
satellite (over the Pacific)
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Today

• ESL Talk (SA TAFE ESL Homepage)
• chat
• bulletin board
• Group Email List (ESL_SA)

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THE PALACE
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The Palace 2