Overview and contact information

Deborah Healey - email Deborah.

http://oregonstate.edu/~healeyd/

Draft syllabus

Day 1 Monday
Theme: Communicating: Email, online discussion, Comments in Word

Email and online discussion: Yahoo Groups. Join our group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eamp2007

Nicenet for online discussion - www.nicenet.org.

Insert Comments in Word - regular and audio

More on your own: Keypals

Day 2 Tuesday
Theme: Effective web use: searching, sites

PowerPoint

Right-click on this template and choose Save. Put it in My Documents on your computer. Make sure you put your name on it, and that it is in My Documents. You'll add your sites from today to this PowerPoint. Add your name and email to page 1 of the PowerPoint show.

Searching the Web for research and teaching purposes

General web searching tips
Choosing the right search engine: www.noodletools.com/

Find a good search engine for biography, news, hot topics, and a subject area (math, science, languages)

Try some of the links at http://oregonstate.edu/dept/eli/techsem2006/internetpossibilities.html Add good sites to your PowerPoint.

Add your PowerPoint to our Yahoo Group – Files section. Make sure your name is on your PowerPoint!

Day 3 Wednesday
Theme: Creating material -Web pages, blogging and podcasting (if there's time)

Create a web page with Tripod - www.tripod.com

Create a blog with Blogger – www.blogger.com

If you have time, try Podomatic – www.podomatic.com . You will need a microphone to create a podcast. See a sample of what Aiden Yeh did with Podomotic at http://aidenyeh.podomatic.com/ . You can see a different kind of podcast at http://eslpage.blog-city.com/ - it's a series of podcasts that help students learn about idioms.

Do the online questionnaire at FAST – https://www.getfast.ca/students/index.cfm?Randomcourse=65834470

List of resources

Readings