The Internet: Mortar for Educational Building Blocks
Presented by David WarlickThe Landmark Project
919-571-3292
david@landmark-project.com
Session Description 
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Hosted by: NC Dept. of Public Instruction; NC Partnership Training System/UNC-Chapel Hill; North Carolina Central University; Alliance 2000 Project/U. of New Mexico; Center for Leadership, Development and Research, Inc., Washington, DC
The Internet: Mortar for Educational Building BlocksPresented by David WarlickThe Landmark Project 919-571-3292 david@landmark-project.com |
Session Description |
| Presentation Description: | During this demonstration, participants will observe how some of the fundamental tools and techniques of the internet can be used to enrich instruction and enhance instructional support. Examples include: using Internet-based information as a raw material for new information products, publishing student work for a global audience, collaborating on curriculum-based projects with students in other continents, conducting on-line conference that are independent of time and space, distributing valuable educational research and other resources to a wide audience -- cheaply, and setting up opportunities for teachers to beomce their own best support. |
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| Electronic mail is the most important tool for accessing the human resources on the Internet. Conducting e-mail usually involves the use of a mail account somewhere on the Internet, and mail address (person@place.com), and a piece of software such as Eudora for managing mail. A message is sent through the Internet by using the mail software to enter the electronic address of another Internet user, a message subject, and the body of the message, and sending the message to it's destination. If the receiver replies to the message, the reply is automatically addressed back to you and delivered to your account mail box where your e-mail program picks it up. | |
| Mailing Lists | Electronic mailing lists are roughly the equivalent of the paper version, with one important difference. In addition to being a way for one entity to broadcast information to a wide audience, the electronic mailing list can be a way for all list members to multicast to each other. A mailing list consists of a unique e-mail address and a corresponding file with a list of other e-mail addresses of people who are interested in a common topic of discussion. When any member send a message to the list address, that message is automatically copied to all other members. Some mailing lists are moderated by a human, who must approve the distribution of messages posted to the list. This is typically the case for lists that are used by children. |
| The World-Wide Web | The World-Wide Web is the most popular way of accessing the digital resources of the Internet. The web consists of millions of documents written in HTML (HyperText Markup Language) which allows specific words, pharases, and graphic images to be linked to other related documents. The links are accomplished by clicking on the coded words and phrases with the moust pointer. This process, called "hypertext" succeededs in organizing information logically, based on meaning and relationship, rather than in alphabetical or numerical order. |
| Learning Disabilities Association | The Learning Disabilities Association is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to advance the education and general welfare of children and adults of normal or potentially normal intelligence who manifest handicaps of a perceptual, conceptual, or coordinative nature. LDA of New Mexico (http://www.viva.com/nm/nmlda/), LDA of Texas (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/LDAT/), LDA of Alaska (http://www.lda.org/alaska/), Learning Disabilities Association of Manitoba (http://www.freenet.mb.ca/community/support/bscn/iphome/l/ldam/). http://www.ldanatl.org/
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| The Federal Resource Center for Special Education | The Federal Resource Center for Special Education (the FRC) coordinates the work of the six Regional Resource Centers for Special Education with the objectives of the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs, helping to foster a network of technical assistance and dissemination projects held together by ongoing collaborative efforts, whose goal is to respond quickly to the needs of students with disabilities, and the families, professionals, and communities who are associated with these students. http://www.aed.org/special.ed/frc.html |
| Gentle Teaching | Gentle Teaching is a non violent approach for helping people with special needs and sometimes
challenging behaviors that focusses on four primary goals of care-giving: - teaching the person to feel safe with us - teaching the person to feel engaged with us - teaching the person to feel unconditionally valued by us - teaching the person to return unconditional valuing to us Gentle Teaching is a strategy based on a Psychology of Interdependence that sees all change as being mutual and bringing about a feeling of companionship and community- symbols of justice and non-violence http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/gentle/ |
| Special Education Sites | This anotated list of Special Education resources is produced and maintained by Cleborne D. Maddux, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno. http://unr.edu/homepage/maddux/splinks.html |
| Peytral Publications | Peytral Publications is a small independent publishing company specializing on Special
Education materials. http://ally.ios.com/~robham19/ |
| SERI | The Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI) project is a collection of Internet accessible information resources which may be of interest to those involved in the fields related to Special Education. This collection exists in order to make on-line Special Education resources more easily and readily available in one location. This site will continually modify, update, and add additional informative links. http://www.hood.edu/seri/serihome.htm |
| Special Needs Education Network | Welcome to the SNE, the Special Needs Education Network. The SNE (es-en-ee) provides Internet services specific to parents, teachers, schools, and other professionals, individuals, groups, and organizations involved in the education of students with special needs. The SNE is a service provided under the auspices of the SchoolNet project, a cooperative initiative of Canada's provincial, territorial, and federal governments, in consultation with educators, universities, colleges and industry. http://www.schoolnet.ca/sne/ |