Copy Rights & Fair Use Policy

Welcome to ETEC 424! We learned about Copy Rights and Fair Use Policy. I would like to hear what you have to say about it. Please explain what have you learned, the importance of respecting this policy and what will you do to make sure your students learn and follow the copy rights and fair use policy.

Web 2.0 Applications & Their Impact on Education

We continue learning about Web 2.0 applications. We already familiar with Blogs and Wikis and learned more about Socialbookmarking and VoiceThread. It is time to move forward and discuss the impact of those Web 2.0 tools on education.

I would like to hear from you how and when you will using wikis and blogs with your students. Provide an example. Are you interested in creating a VoiceThread? What do you think about Socialbookmarking?

Make sure you engage in discussion with your classmates.

Supporting Writing with Technology

Based on our in class activities tonight and your reading of Chapter 4: Supporting Writing with Technology (pg. 61-80), I want to hear what you think about following:

• How collaborative and presentation writing can be supported with technology
• Use of Web 2.0 applications, especially blog, for writing/collaboration purposes

Note: Your statements need be supported with assigned reading or with research conducted on your own.

Copyright & Fair Use

You read Wesley Fryer's article "Copyright 101 for Educators: Winter 2003" While reading section called "Guidelines for Teachers and Students" focus on 4 factors that everyone should consider when determining fair use. What do you think?

Meaningful Online Communications in Education

The online communications are great for the purpose of collaboration with pears around the world and present wonderful opportunities to connect people across the town, state, country and world. But, there are some theories about how these communication tools can sometimes create isolation(s) and disconnection(s). The relationships between students and teachers, just as family relationships, should never be damaged with these kinds of communication tools. In contrary, it should strengthen it by providing an additional way of communication.

Imagine a Thanksgiving dinner where no one talks because everyone is chatting online or texting on the phone. Not a nice picture, is it? Now, imagine a US soldier in Iraq who is not able to be with his/her family for Thanksgiving. He or she can log on Skype and video-conference with his family members and spend the Thanksgiving with them that way. This situation is just an example of how online communications can be beneficial. It is placing that missing piece of puzzle in the holiday picture - a member who is physicaly not able to be with them.

With that in mind, we need to establish a meaningful and purposeful online communication in education also.

Summer II - MAPping Activities

I am sure that your perception of searching the web has changed after MAPping activities this week. Post your comments here.

Information Literacy

I have seen how much you all enjoyed tonight's activities. What do you think about MAPing activities? How did you conduct online search for information before? How will you do it from now on? What will be different?

At the end, provide link to the blog you created tonight.