Internet for Education

Issues and Tips of How to Use

Internet for Education

Two or more computers connected together is called a network

Internet --- World Wide Web, or say, Globalized Network

Total Intranet

Partial Intranet

Intranet--- The Internal Network

Professional Terms

WWW --- world wide web, it is a collection of interconnected computers that offers text , graphics, sounds and video images.

URL (Uniform Resource Locator)--- means the web address.

Web browser --- in interface tool that enables you to visit the web sites and see pictures and images, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape.

Hypertext or hyperlinks --- the linked text, buttons or graphics on which you can click to surf web pages.

Web Server---The equipment that host the website.

Web Space---The physical space in web server that can hold the amount of the data.

Domain Name and Host Name

http://www.aamu.edu

The “aamu” is a host name.

The “edu” is a domain name.

The same is to

www.msn.com, www.census.org, www.ed.gov, and http://stinet.dtic.mil

Commonly Used Search Engines

yahoo.com --- It is the most and largest comprehensive of all the subject directories. It is very good at providing information for the masses, such as sports, current news, stock quotes, etc.

askjeeves.com and answers.com --- They are unique subject directory search engines. Each allows the user to enter a question in a plain English, or select from the list of the most popular questions, or dropdown menu for the user to choose.

google.com --- It is the most powerful search engine with 35 billion of searched pages each time. It is multimedia effective.

bing.com --- A powerful multimedia and information search engine.

Web 1.0 and Web 2.0Two negations of the world wide web

Web 1.0, the first generation of the world wide web, mainly provides information, like information in text, color, graphics, photos, animation, video, sound, etc. (A sample site for Tech class, a sample Social Studies site )

Web 2.0, is the second generation of the tools enhanced world wide web. It mainly provide online interaction, collaboration, joint work, effective tools for people to use.

Web 2.0 Tools

A broad range of web tools that enhance the use of the digital tools on the Internet. They include but not limited to the tools

1. For interaction and communication --- Email, listserv/group Email, discussion board, bulletin board, chat room, Skype,

2. Social media like Facebook, Twitter, linkedIn,

3. For collaboration or team workWikipedia,

4. For multimedia useVideo downloader, audio downloader, graphics designer, photo editor,

5. Personal use --- online drop box, Windows Cloud, Google account6. Other like widely used website like --- screen capture, sound recorder

(Freecorder), video downloader, ebay, amozon, business site, school site for registration, Banner account, etc.

Example of Web 2.0 --- Google

Google is not only a powerful search engine, it is also a rich internet tool provider

1. Gmail with google forms, word processor, spread sheet, slide show, survey, test, (docs.google.com)

2. Google earth, Google map

3. Wikipedia,

4. Wiki tools,

5. Apps

6. Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers:

Edudemic, Teaching Tools, Cool Tools

7. Web 2.0 Tools for Students

Student Web 2.0 Tools, 50 Tools online

Social media for communication and learning

Online Class Communication Tools

www.netmeeting.com Netmeeting tools Instant interaction:

See and hear people Chatting Transfer files

Netmeeting image viewer

Netmeeting’s Chatroom

Netmeeting’s chat room. It can chat, transfer files, hear the speech and view the image of the speaker.

Skype (and Google Hangout)--- a social media

Google Hangout

Advantages of the Learning Network

Provide learning resources through network Enhance communication: Internal & external Enhance learning interaction

Student-student, student-teacher, student-content, teacher-teacher, Teacher-content, teacher-parents

Learning anytime and anywhere Distance education, online learning resources,

synchronous and asynchronous communication

Social and Ethic Issues of Technology Use

Copy right, online privacy, hacking and online invasion, Virus dissemination and antivirus measures Possible online fines, and penalty, Networked theft, computer fraud sample, Network communication language style: politeness in

email, listserv, discussion board, and bulletin board.

Downside of Internet

1. Email trash

2. Network transmitted virus

3. Online gambling

4. Uncontrolled online shopping

5. Internet addict/Internet love

6. Online sexual and violence influence

7. Online alienation and dehumanization

Be open to the Internet resources Critically analyze and evaluate the selected

resources Carefully design the class by integrating other

people’s resources Broaden the students’ vision through online

learning resources (see Dr. Li’s sample instructional websites collection page)

Creative Use of Internet Resources

Sample Useful Educational Sites