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Internet in the K-12 Classroom |
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Week 1
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Welcome to the first of eight weeks. We will do a combination of reading, researching on the Internet and responding to our readings and to each other. Your first posting will be a biographical introduction. In addition to who you are and where you work and what you do, please share any Internet-in-the-classroom stories you may have from personal experience.
Each week will begin with a reading. Links will take you to various Educational Technology Journal sites. You will be given either a required article, a suggested article, or the freedom to chose your own. Read the article, summarize it and provide commentary in a weekly posting to WebCT.
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Weekly
Reader: Web-based Education
Commission 
For our first week we are going to get to know each other and learn some things about the Internet and its history in education.
Read the condensed version below from PBS Technology Timeline. Visit as many embedded links as you wish, and visit at least three of the sites listed at the bottom that give the history in more detail
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1950s-60s J.C.R.
Licklider's early vision of a research network eventually evolved
into the Internet.
Further reading: The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal |
1962 – 1969 The idea is conceived. Under the leadership of the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA), it grows from a paper architecture into a small network (ARPANET) intended to promote the sharing of super-computers amongst researchers in the United States.
1969 - ARPANET connects first 4 universities in the United States (See the original 1969 drawing). Stanford, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah.
1970 - ALOHANET wireless connection to the ARPANET developed at the University of Hawaii
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1972 -
The InterNetworking Working Group sets standards and governs the network,
followed by other standards-setting agencies.
Vinton Cerf is elected the first chairman of the INWG, and later becomes known as a "Father of the Internet." |
1988 – 1990 Security in the digital world. Terms like "hacker," "cracker" and" electronic break-in", are created.
Nov. 1, 1988 a malicious program called the "Internet Worm" temporarily disables approximately 6,000 of the 60,000 Internet hosts.
1988 - The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) is formed to address security concerns raised by the Worm.
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1989 - System
administrator turned author, Clifford Stoll, catches a group of Cyberspies,
and writes the best-seller "The Cuckoo's Egg."
The number of Internet hosts exceeds 100,000. |
1990 - A happy victim of its own unplanned, unexpected success, the ARPANET is decommissioned
1991 - The World Wide Web is born! The National Science Foundation's NSFNET, the backbone of the Internet, lifts restrictions on commercial use, clearing the way for the age of electronic commerce.
At the University of Minnesota, a team led by computer programmer Mark MaCahill releases "gopher," the first point-and-click way of navigating the files of the Internet. MaCahill calls it "the first Internet application my mom can use."
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Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN in Switzerland, posts the first computer code of the World Wide Web in a relatively innocuous newsgroup, "alt.hypertext." The hyperlink was born. |
Marc Andreesen and a group of student programmers at NCSA (the National Center for Supercomputing Applications located on the campus of University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) will eventually develop a graphical browser for the World Wide Web called Mosaic.
Required Links (visit at least three)
| Multimedia experience: | Plain text: | |
 Vastvideo has hundreds of short one and two-minute videos
about technology. Watch at least 3 – 6. |
__ | Computer.org's history Enter any decade and read forward and backward |
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Technology
Leadership Institute
This is a
huge 70-meg video-assisted PowerPoint presentation on the history of technology in the classroom. You
may watch a streaming Real Media video and PowerPoint,
or download just the PowerPoint portion at 3.6 megs or the whole package at 70
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Donna Ferguson of the University of Northern Colorado Read this page on Educational Technology and the two underlying pages linked under the words Technology and Theory at the bottom of the page. Follow any associated hyperlinks you prefer. | |
| Phd systems' History of the Internet | W3.org's History: Text summary 1945 - 1995 |
Brainstorming for Internet-Related Classroom Projects
There are approximately three billion Web pages on the Internet and thousands of sites that provide technology-integrating lesson plans. Teachers can spend weeks, months, finding, reading, and bookmarking lesson sites. This unit will narrow the field to just a few of the top resources that have enough material to help most any teacher develop a whole year's curriculum of technology-based lessons.
Keep in mind that Webquest, Filamentality, and virtually all the lesson-plan sites fundamentally provide some combination of three things:
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portals (collections of organized links)
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Ideas (the lesson itself)
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Resources (downloadable presentations; graphics; sounds; movies; online forms, games, quizzes, and so on)
Webquest Home Page
at San Diego State University. Webquest guides
teachers in creating their own HTML Webquest lesson plans. If you want to
build a Web Site as part of your Curriculum Development Project, Webquest
provides the needed elements.
Webquest Matrix of
Lessons
Webquest Building Blocks
Webquest Downloadable
Templates for creating your own HTML Web Quest
Filamentality
(Sponsored by SBC Pacific Bell) Filamentality helps teachers who don't know
how to create HTML files build a Web Site for a lesson plan. Filamentality
provides teachers with blank forms to fill out. It then generates the
hyperlinks and overall organization. If you want to build a Web Site as part
of your Curriculum Development Project, Filamentality provides the needed
elements.
Tour the Process
Search for Lesson Plans
(First, change the search location from Knowledge Network Explorer to
Filamentality) Put in a favorite topic keyword
During Week 5 you will learn the techniques needed for creating your HTML portal. Once you learn the process used by Webquest and Filamentality, you can begin developing your own online lessons from scratch.
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Week 1 Assignments (1-4): |
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1. Please introduce yourself. Share some of your personal, professional, and technological background. Why are you in this class? What are your aspirations? What do you want from us? Have you any Internet-in-the-classroom stories or successes to share? |
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2. What you feel to be the three most pivotal milestones or discoveries in the evolution of the Internet and how they have an impact on the classroom. Share one hope for the future |
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3. Visit all the Webquest and Filamentality Web links listed above. Learn how both techniques work. Share with the group you opinions on these Internet features. Share anything interesting you discovered |
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4. (OPTIONAL) Tell us what technology at your school has replaced the following classroom tools from the 1950s |
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