Tech Help

Benchmark #3-ED 330 Classroom Methods
Technology Skill-Using Email, Chat and List-Serves in the Classroom

Student Directions:

1. Read at least 3 of the six articles and webpages listed below on why we would use this type of technology with our students.
Why use Technology?
Where Have We Come From? What Has CALL Really Achieved? by Claire Bradin Siskin
Why would we use E-Mail and Chat with our students?
Communication Is the Key for Languages Other than English (LOTE) Students -article by Maria Cooke on her students' experiences as Keypals
Success story on using Email with 6th-9th grade students in Israel.
Evaluating Sites on the Internet
2. Write a short journal explaining the pros and cons to this type of technology. (Send it to cwduffy@comfsm.fm or shenry@comfsm.fm Assignment #5)
3. Subscribe to a list-serve. Use one of these links to find out how to do it.
What is a List-Serve?
Help using a List-Serve by the people at Linguistic Funland
List-Serves- http://www.liszt.com/ -Enter a phrase to search the world's largest director of mailing lists. Lots in Education.
4. Post a list-serve suggestion or idea to our PT3 discussion board. (To go to the PT3 Discussion Board Click Here)
5.  Register for ICQ and send your registration number to Carol or Sylvia. (Learn how to do it by clicking here.)
5. Sign up for COM-FSM email and send your email address to Carol or Sylvia as described in Assignment #6 below. 
E-Mail -These are directions on how to sign up for COM-FSM's Webmail
6. Look over these Additional Resources: Lesson plans and links to ideas on developing projects to do with other teachers. How to be polite on the Internet, and Directions on how to use Outlook Express instead of Webmail.
Where Do You Want To Go This Year? -Example of  integrating e-mail and Language Arts.
Telecomputing to Promote Cultural and Environmental Understanding-article by Diane Painter that describes how to do a keypal exchange.
Netiquette- politeness rules for the Internet
Definitions on different types of  Evaluation
For those students who are interested in learning how to use Microsoft Outlook Express -Using Outlook Express -adding a profile
How to use Outlook Express: Microsoft's Website for using Outlook Express
7. Do Assignments 5-7.
Assignment#5 - Write a short personal journal describing how you feel about using email and chatting in an educational setting. Please send them to cwduffy@comfsm.fm or syhenry@comfsm.fm
Assignment #6-exchange e-mail, which include use of, subject lines, signature files, and attached documents
Assignment #7-write a well thought out and creative lesson plan that includes the use of e-mail as an essential component. Here is a good example.
Here is an example of a lesson plan written by one of our COM-FSM students.
The information you need to include in your lesson plan is listed below:
  1. Lesson Title:
  2. Subject Area
  3. Grade Level
  4. Time:
  5. Lesson Summary
  6. Objective:
  7. Prerequisite Skills:
  8. Materials and Resources:  Technology, Printed Materials, Supplies, and Others.
  9. Procedures:
  10. Conclusion/Evaluation of Lesson
  11. Modification for Differentiated Instruction