emu – ict for educators

EMU – ICT for educators

February 2010

Program

9.30-10.30 10.45 - 12.00 13.00 - 14.00 14.15-15.15

Expectations:

• Mine• Yours• AOB?

In August XXXX, Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the first website

The first web site built was at http://info.cern.ch/ and was first put online on August 6, 1991.

“It allows people to exist in an information space which doesn't know geographical boundaries. My hope is that it'll be very positive in bringing people together around the planet, because it'll make communication between different countries more possible.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4132752.stm

What are the potential benefits of using technology?

• We empower the students• We can use our resources more creatively• We can expand the classroom contact• We can help students get in touch with the larger world• We can accept our role as a co-learner • We can use the students’ own interests to teach them• We can use the power of technology to engage the students (not

entertain them)

Adapted from : http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/johnson/johnson033.shtml

• Students become writers• Students teach us

“Computers, along with multimedia software and hardware, help us express our ideas as animations, video poems, slide shows, interactive movies, virtual environments, and other forms yet to be created. As we create these new texts, we are changing how we define literacy.”

(B. Reilly, 'New Technologies, New Literacies, New Patterns' (in C. Fisher, D.C. Dwyer & K. Yocam (eds.), Education and

Technology: reflections on computing in classrooms (San Francisco, 1996), p.218)

Warmer: Here's a list of everyone's names and e-mail addresses. You're going to send an e-mail not to your penpal,

but ‘keypal’ .

Write an email to your keypal. Include the following information

1. Tell him or her your name, and give him or her some information about your Internet use.

2. Do you have a computer and Internet connection at home? 3. Where do you usually use the computer or the Internet? 4. What do you usually use it for? 5. When you get a response, write back, commenting on what

you have learned.

Safety on the net• If you’re a parent, surf the web with your children

first. • Check out the sites they visit. • Kids should ask permission before posting any

personal information on a website.• Parents/teachers should check any profiles online. • Warn them not to enter any contents without

permission. • Never open an email from someone they don’t

know. • Teach kids how to run virus check programs • Keep up to date yourself:

Email and internet identity issues

How many email addresses do you have? How many different passwords? How do you/can you keep track of them all? Let’s look at a system.

Working with the Internet

• Is anything ever deleted? • Can you control information that you have put

on the web?

Nov 11, 1998

Internet vs WWW• Where does the Internet come from? Check this out. • Who invented the Internet? The WWW?

• 1957 - USSR launches Sputnik, first artificial earth satellite. In response, US forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the following year, within the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to the military

• 1966 - Lawrence G. Roberts, MIT: "Towards a Cooperative Network of Time-Shared Computers" (October)First ARPANET plan (NOTE: ARPANET existed until 1990)

• 1971 - 15 nodes (23 hosts): UCLA, SRI, UCSB, Univ of Utah, BBN, MIT, RAND, SDC, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, Stanford, UIU(C), CWRU, CMU, NASA/Ames

• 1976 - Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom sends out an email on 26 March from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE) in Malvern.

• 1982 - the word Internet is used for the first time

• 1991 – the WWW is invented by Tim Berners-Lee

• 1992 - the term surfing the Internet is coined by Jean Polly

• Nov 2, 2006 – the 10 millionth website was launched.

New Gmail/Google account

• For the purposes of this course, we’re going to set up a new e-mail account.

• You can use this account for every new website that you register to.

• Let’s demo it together.

What are the benefits of using technology?

1. we empower the students2. we can use our resources more creatively3. we can expand the classroom contact4. we can help students get in touch with the larger world5. we can accept our role as a co-learner 6. we can use the students’ own interests to teach them7. we can use the power of technology to engage the students (not

entertain them) Adapted from :

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/johnson/johnson033.shtml

Safety on the net• If you’re a parent, surf the web with your children

first. • Check out the sites they visit. • Kids should ask permission before posting any

personal information on a website.• Parents/teachers should check any profiles online. • Warn them not to enter any contents without

permission. • Never open an email from someone they don’t

know. • Teach kids how to run virus check programs • Keep up to date yourself:

Word tutorials

http://www.pitt.edu/~poole/onlinebooks.htm http://www.pitt.edu/~poole/

Office2007frame.html

http://www.archive.org/