Chapter 11

ROLES OF INTERNET AND THE WORLD WIDE WED IN EDUCATION

TOOLS FOR COMMUNICATION
     The internet has introduced a lot of developments especially on how teachers and students communicate and connect with each other.

   Communication can either be asynchronous and synchronous communication.

Asynchronous is a type of communication is a type of communication where the person communicates anywhere and anytime.

Synchronous communication is a type of communication where the people communicate in “Real Time”

EXAMPLES OF ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION

• Email 
• Discussion/forums
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Mailing list
• Tweets

EXAMPLES OF SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION

• Chat 
• Instant Messaging
• Text Messaging
• Video Conferencing

E-MAIL
It is the oldest and most common communication tool that is easy to use and very reliable.

APPLICATION OF EMAIL IN EDUCATION

• Allows communication among students, teachers, and parents.
• Teachers can provide feedback to the students.
• School documents can be sent through email

DISCUSSION OF BOARD FORUM
It creates social interaction for students and allows all students to have a ‘voice’.

APPLICATION OF BOARD FORUM IN EDUCATION

• Allows students to voice out their opinion
• Students can participate in the discussion board/forum
• Students who cannot recite in a face-to-face discussion can use this to join the discussion.

BLOG
Blog or “web log” is an online journal that is publicly accessible.

APPLICATION OF BLOG IN EDUCATION

• Blogs can be a source of information.
• It serves as a project site where students can post their opinions, make feedbacks, and can serve as an online portfolio.

WIKIS
It is a web-based communication tool that allows the teacher and students to work together, share resources and collaborate.
Students and teachers can write together or co-create knowledge and information.

Provide students the opportunity to decide whether the information they are getting is relevant and accurate.

MAILING LIST OR LIST SERVER
These are programs that store and maintain mailing lists.

APPLICATION OF MAILING LIST IN EDUCATION

• Send an email message to everyone on the list to share common interests or who belong to an organization.

TWEETS
Tweets are text-based posts that can be up to 140 characters that are posted within a person’s profile page.

APPLICATION OF TWEETS IN EDUCATION

• Teachers can create classroom hashtags to be used for discussing specific topics.
• Students can also search hashtags for research.

VIRTUAL MEETINGS/ WEBINAR
A webinar is a presentation, lecture, demonstration, workshop or seminar that is done over the web.

APPLICATION OF WEBINAR IN EDUCATION

• Flexibilit
• Invite resource person
• Course materials
• Cost effective
• Interactivity
• Targets children with special needs.

CHAT
Chat is widely used communication tool

APPLICATION OF CHAT IN EDUCATION
You can provide immediate feedback

INSTANT MESSAGING
Instant messaging of IM is a service that allows users to private chartrooms in which members alert each other when they wish to chat.

TEXT MESSAGING
Text messaging allows for instantaneous communication between people that is done with the used of cellphones.

VIDEO CONFERENCE
This means conducting a conference between two or more participants at different sites by using computer networks to transmit audio and video data.

SOCIAL NETWORKING
It allows user to communicate virtually key keeping in touch with each other, updating and sharing about life, interests and creating events to be shared with others.

APPLICATION OF SOCIAL NETWORKING IN EDUCATION

• Increase sense of belonging
• Build bonds between classmates
• Increase bonds between students and instructors

TOOLS FOR INQUIRY

2 GENERAL TECHNIQUES IN LOCATING INFROMATION
Browsing is based in a hierarchal directory of headings and subheadings. To locate information, select from these headings until you get to a listing of links appropriate to your interests.

Searching involves the use of an online database.

Search Engines- these are programs that look for documents in World Wide Web using specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found.

Index Search Engines-relies on a computer-generated index of the content of websites.

Meta-index or Meta crawler-accesses and returns from several search engines.


TECHNIQUES IN SEARCHING

• Use phrase search.
• Use negative search.
• Order search.
• Use AND or +.
• Use DOMAIN names.
• Use definitions.
• Use file types.
• Use nouns as query keywords.
• Use 6 to 8 keywords per query.
• Spell carefully and consider alternate spellings.
• Use good keywords.
• Use truncations and wildcards.
• Use search options.
• Use tilde operator.

TOOLS FOR CONTRUCTION
It refers to the internet as a vehicle for presenting products created by students at the same time a way to create lessons and activities for the students.

WEBQUEST
Web quests are web-based activities designed to help teachers integrate the internet into the curriculum.
An effective web quest...

• Engages the student’s higher order thinking skills
• Must have interesting and doable tasks.
• Utilizes resources on the internet
• Usually involves collaboration through group work.

BASIC PARTS OF A WEBQUEST

Introduction-an introduction provides the background of a webquest.

Task-The task indicates what the students are required to do.

Process- process gives details of the instructions on what the students are going to do.

Evaluation. The evaluation presents the rubrics on how the students will be graded.

Conclusions-the conclusion summarizes the entire lesson.

WEB PAGE CREATION

• Teachers can create their webpages and websites for their class
• Great way to communicate with your students
• Keeps the students informed of any updates
• Keeps parents in the loop.

 typical website for a class includes following components

• Course description
• Class rules and regulation
• Announcements/events
• Link related to the subject matter
• Materials
• Contact information
• Biography/teachers link
• Information for parents.