Ways to Integrate the Internet in the Classroom

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Ways to Integratethe Internetin the Classroom

• Teresa Almeida d'Eça
• Escola Superior de Educação de Beja
• 16 Abril 2002

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• Breaking the ice
• introductions
• personal/professional experiences with the
  Internet

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• The Internet and the Classroom
• why integrate the Internet in the classroom?
• is the choice of activities necessarily dependent
  on the cognitive level of the students?

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• Suggested online activities
• interactive exercises
• projects
• webquests
• email
• chat

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• Interactive exercises
• (download and install)
• http//web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/

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Hot Potatoes lets you create customized online
interactive crossword puzzles (JCross) (http//www
.malhatlantica.pt/teresadeca/euroland(xword).htm)
matching exercises/quizzes (JMatch) m-choice
exercises/quizzes (JBC) gap-fill or cloze
exercises/quizzes (JCloze) word order
exercises/quizzes (JMix)
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• Interactive exercises
• (work on or off line)
• http//www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/

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Filamentality "helps combine the "filaments" of
the Web with a learner's "mentality" is an
Interactive Website that guides you through
creating five different types of Web pages
Hotlists, Multimedia Scrapbooks, Subject Samplers
(http//www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/samtrav
ellite.html), Treasure Hunts or WebQuests" and
posts them directly on the Internet! VIP(oint)
prepare your work off line and paste it on line!
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Filamentality advisable to read User Guides
(http//www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/guides.html)
where the chart below presents the general aims
of the different Activity Formats and links to an
example of each
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Filamentality Activity Formats
(http//www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/formats.html)
with the main goals and an example of each
format related to different subjects or Six Paths
to China (http//www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/)
with an example of each format related to the
same subject a PowerPoint Introduction to
Filamentality may be helpful (http//www.kn.pacbel
l.com/support/filtrain/fil.ppt)!
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• WebQuests
• (prepare off line and post on line)
• http//webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html

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WebQuests "are an inquiry-based activity where
all or most of the information comes from the
Internet, with specific tasks and roles for
students and pre-selected website resources"
(Dodge 1995) generally consist of 6 parts
introduction, task, information sources, process,
guidance, conclusion generally are group
activities within a single discipline or
interdisciplinary activities
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WebQuests advisable to read Some Thoughts about
WebQuests, by Bernie Dodge, the creator of this
activity http//edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec596/ab
out_webquests.html helpful to get an idea of
WebQuests available for learning
English http//webquest.sdsu.edu/matrix.html
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WebQuests interesting Webquests Of Mice and
Men, a Cloning WebQuest (Phil Benz) http//www.ard
ecol.ac-grenoble.fr/english/cloning/cloning.htm T
he Copacabana Restaurant (Barbara
Dieu) http//the_english_dept.tripod.com/foodquest
/index.html The American Dream Immigration to
America (Fernanda Rodrigues) http//www.rede-nonio
.min-edu.pt/es/sebgama/immigration/index.html
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• Projects
• (plan your work off line)
• http//fyi.cnn.com/fyi/teachers.ednews/

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• Projects
• The Euro is here to stay (Teresa Almeida d'Eça)
• http//www.malhatlantica.pt/teresadeca/euroisheret
  ostay(9ano).htm
• Final student text
• http//www.malhatlantica.pt/teresadeca/studentwork
  (esa).htm

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• Projects
• (plan your work off line)
• http//www.nytimes.com/pages/education/index.html

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• Projects
• (plan your work off line)
• http//www.nytimes.com/learning/

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• Email
• http//groups.yahoo.com

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Yahoo Groups allow you to contact group
members (students) through email send personal
or group messages chat individually or in a
group (with your students) read and post
files create your folders and files
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Yahoo Groups get your Yahoo ID
(teca2002pt) join a group start a group (with
your students or with colleagues) advisable to
click on Help (top right) and read about the
different possibilities available http//groups.ya
hoo.com/
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• Chat
• (download and install)
• http//messenger.yahoo.com/

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Yahoo Messenger allows for a one-on-one/several-t
o-several live conference, or to venture into
more 'daring' experiences through voice and video
chat with family, friends, colleagues and
students through text voice video (web
cam) see if the person you want to contact is
online and available send instant messages to
call a friend
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Suggested hands-on activities HOT
POTATOES browse through the online tutorial
index read 'Introduction to HP' attentively try a
couple of the exercises to get the feel of their
learning potential! if you like the experience,
download it!! and get to work!!!
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Suggested hands-on activities FILAMENTALITY thin
k of a (curriculum-based) subject/topic create a
short Hotlist or Treasure Hunt http//www.kn.pacbe
ll.com/wired/fil/pages/listeflfunlso.html http//w
ww.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/hunt.html post it on
the Web
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Suggested hands-on activities WEBQUESTS browse
through the webquests for learning English choose
an appropriate webquest for your
students explain/justify your choice PROJECTS bro
wse through the three sites presented and check
their potential choose an article outline/plan an
activity for your students
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Suggested hands-on activities EMAIL and
CHAT browse through the Yahoo Groups or Yahoo
Messenger main page think about its advantages to
the learning process and professional
development create two columns (LP, PD) and jot
down your ideas for each one
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VISIT MY WEB PAGE! www.malhatlantica.pt/teresad
eca/ EMAIL ME! tmvaz_at_mail.telepac.pt LEAVE A
VOICE MESSAGE! www.malhatlantica.pt/teresadeca/wim
ba.htm
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