| If you selected one of the following
strategies ... |
... then the following technology tools
can help enable your strategies: |
| A. Conversing, Discussing |
e-mail, listservs, discussion boards, chat |
| B. Mentoring, Questioning, Supporting a
Partner |
e-mail; live, synchronous camera(s) for mentor/mentee to discuss; chat room
with white board, digital drop boxes for file sharing and written critiques |
| C. Debating |
e-mail, discussion boards, web sites that showcase controversies or experts
with opinions and theories; use resources as the basis for discussion, such
as www.ideachannel.com |
| D. Impersonating, Role Playing |
asynchronous tools (i.e., e-mail, discussion boards, chat) or synchronous
tools (i.e., Symposium, CU-SeeMe, live net-cams) |
| E. Sharing Data, Analyzing |
e-mail, listservs, spreadsheets, data analysis software |
| F. Developing a New Product or Artifact |
web page editors for students, e-mail and other communication tools, digital
drop boxes for file sharing, server space to post projects online, tools that
allow for voting on or attaching comments to students' work for the purpose
of recognizing best or improving weak artifacts |
| G. Traveling Virtually, Situating Curriculum
in the Context of Expeditions |
a significant grant budget may be required to create live expeditions,
consisting of technology to upload live broadcasts to satellites and back
down to Internet servers with live audio/video streams; alternatively, quests
could be videotaped and delivered at a later time via standard Internet video
streaming |
| H. Seeking, Collecting, Organizing,
Synthesizing Online Information (Research) |
web resources, either individual pages related to a course, or entire archives
from which students conduct research to identify topics of interest or
relevance to assignments |
| I. Exploring Real World Cases and
Problems |
web-page editors (e.g., Dreamweaver), photo editors (e.g., Photoshop),
perhaps video editors (e.g., Premiere) and knowledge of video streaming for
Internet (e.g., Real Producer) |
| J. Accessing Tutorials with Exercises,
Quizzes, Questions, Online Drill-and-
Practice |
for creating virtual exercises, knowledge of multimedia development
programs (e.g., Director, Flash) and/or mechanisms for placing them on the
Internet (e.g., Shockwave, Java) |
Hari Srinivas - hsrinivas@gdrc.org