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| Keypals projects are actitvities in which students worked in pairs as pen pals communicating electronically and choosing their own discussion topics. . The Hobart Malang Electronic Mail Project This site records the interactions of peers attending the Malang School in Indonesia. Australians and Indonesians electronically share messages, photographs, and artwork to help each other understand their perspective cultures, customs, and everyday lives as they discussed such topics as native animals, traditional folktales, homes, religions, and school curriculum. gsh.lightspan.com/weblib/models/FAHAN/INDO.HTM KID PROJ In this website, participants must answer four questions about themselves. Once completed they can log in and begin to interact.. www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/quick.html |
| Global classrooms are known as group to group exchanges. In this structure two or more classrooms in different locations can study a common topic during an agreed-upon time period. Their activities also seem better for focusing on specific content. They create a learning space , usually as one class extends its own topic discussion of a topic to other classes studying the same topic. Some projects are simple and short-lived, while others are quite complex and can involve students from all over for 1 or more semesters. Read to Write Project This website contains literature study. It sponsors activities accordind to literary genres, such as historical fiction or biography. www.rialto.k12.ca.us/curriculum/ReadtoWrite/Welcome.html Voices of Youth Students can take part in an electronic discussio about the future and discuss how the world can become a place where the rights of every chiild are protected. www.unicef.org/voy/ |
| Electronic Appearances are a one-time visit from a subject-matter expert, or SME; some guests or experts might even be famous. Most appearances are done with real-time text-chat or videoconferencing programs such as CU-SeeMe. This gives the participants a "telepresence" and accommodates the short -term nature of this kind of activity. Electronic appearance activities usually allow only relatively short periods of communiation between students and other people. Women of NASA This website acquaints visitors with the specializations, histories, and daily lives of more than 50 female NASA scientists, matmematicians, engineers and administrators. Each woman partakes in an autobiography and "day in the life." Monitores web chats with individuals participating with sciientistis. During these sessions participants discuss "math, science, space, etc. quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/ NASA Quest This website includes a series of online activities, chatrooms, and live videos with engineers, scientists, and experts. quest.arc.nasa.gov/ |
| Telemonitoring is when exchanges with SME's becomes more extended, and a 'teleapprenticeship" forms. Internet-connected specialists from universities, businessses, government, or other schools can serve as electronic mentors to students who want to explore specific study topics in an interactive format. The Electronic Emissary is a service that matches volunteer SMEs from around the world with teachers and their classes. The service helps a new team of SME, teacher, and students strucuture a mentoring project that focuses on students' curriculum -related inquiry in the SMEs field of expertise. after the project has ended, team members share what they learned with other visitors to the Emissary site. Electronic Emissary This website facilitatates email interactions with teachers, students, and professionals. It has a large database of resources. emissary.ots.utexas.edu/emissary/index.html Access Excellence-Mentor/Net This website provides opportunities for teachers to mentor other teachers or students in areas of expertise and unique skills, or to receive help in an area where help is needed. stone.web.brevard.k12.fl.us/mentornet/mentor.html |
| Question-and-Answer Activities are for students who either cannot find the information they need to answer or do not fully understand the information they have found on-line. the most common question-and-answer activities on the Web are "ask-the-expert" services. Ask an Expert divides its growing index of services into 12 subgroups (e.g., science and technology , health, arts, and law), and a search engine helps visitors locate the best expert service to answer a particular question. Ask an Expert In this website, teachers or students can ask questions to experts. www.askanexpert.com Ask Dr. Math Students or teachers may ask math-related questions to an expet. This information may include formulas or other probllem-solving techniques. http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/ |
| The impersonations structure is when at least one participant in an online group communicates as a character. These virtual performances are popular for both the actors and the participants. Impersonations provides a rich and motivating way for students to use telecomputing tools to help them explore curriculum -related topics in dynamic and interactive contexts. Search letters to Jefferson An education director at Monticello has impersonated that presdent by answering students' questions using email. www.monticello.org/education/asktj/letters.html Letters to Santa In this website, older students or adults assume the role of Santa Claus. They will answer letters by young children. www.qesn.meq.gouv.qc.ca/cc/santa/santa/.htm |
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