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- From: samodena@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu (S. A. Modena)
- Subject: Teaching Interaction via InterNet
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.111420.11702@ncsu.edu>
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Crop Science Dept., NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695-7620
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:14:20 GMT
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- I am forwarding this to these newsgroups, especially since a similar post
- of a slightly different bent, was posted here recently.
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- >From AGRIC-L@uga.cc.uga.edu Wed Jan 20 22:30:19 1993
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 20:58:16 -0600
- Sender: Agriculture Discussion <AGRIC-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- >From: Judith Harris <jbharris@TENET.EDU>
- Subject: Volunteers Needed for On-Line Educational Project
- Comments: To: AASCU-L@ubvm.bitnet, ADDICT-L@kentvm.bitnet,
- aeronautics@rascal.ics.utexas.edu, AFAS-L@kentvm.bitnet,
- AFRICA-L@brufmg.bitnet, AGRIC-L@uga.bitnet,
- AI-MEDICINE@VUSE.VANDERBILT.EDU
-
- WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO SHARE WHAT YOU KNOW WITH
- PRE-COLLEGE STUDENTS AND TEACHERS BY ELECTRONIC MAIL?
-
- Recent estimates indicate that there are now more than
- 50,000 classroom teachers from primary, middle, and
- secondary schools who hold accounts on the Internet.
- This makes a very special kind of learning available to
- them: one which directly involves subject matter experts
- communicating with students and teachers about their
- specialties, via electronic mail.
-
- With support from the Texas Center for Educational
- Technology, we (at the University of Texas at Austin)
- are now piloting a new Internet-based service (the
- "Electronic Emissary") that will bring together pre-
- college students, their teachers, and subject matter
- experts (SMEs) electronically, helping them to create
- telecomputing exchanges centered around the students'
- learning in the SMEs' disciplines. For example,
-
- * A class studying South America could learn about
- recent global environmental research results from a
- scientist who studies rainforest deforestation in
- Brazil.
-
- * A class studying geometry might "talk" electronically
- with Euclid, who is actually a mathematics professor.
-
- * A class studying the future of education might
- converse with an emerging technologies specialist from
- California's Silicon Valley.
-
- * A class studying American History might
- electronically interview Harry Truman, who is really a
- curator with the National Archives.
-
- * A class exploring the rapidly-changing governmental
- structures that are emerging in what was once the Soviet
- Union might correspond with a group of graduate
- political science students at a university in the CIS.
-
- * Or, a class reading _Huckleberry Finn_ might
- correspond with an African-American studies scholar
- about the repercussions resulting from the enacting of
- the Emancipation Proclamation.
-
- In this pilot phase of the project, 10-12 SMEs or SME
- groups are needed to correspond regularly (approximately
- 4 times per week) with primary, middle school, or
- secondary students and their teachers (1 SME or expert
- group per class). Each electronic exchange will begin
- with 2 weeks of project planning via electronic mail
- between the SMEs and the teachers (2/16 - 2/28/93).
- Communications with students will begin during the week
- of March 1st, and will continue for 4 - 6 weeks.
-
- ==> If you would like to find out more about this pilot
- ==> project, please send electronic mail to Judi Harris,
- ==> jbharris@tenet.edu. Please include your name,
- ==> institution, and areas of expertise.
-
- ==> PLEASE RESPOND ASAP; all teacher-SME pairs will be
- ==> formed by 2/15/93.
-
- @>--;--
-
- Judi Harris
- _ /| _^^_ Department of Curriculum & Instruction
- \'o.o'( \ University of Texas at Austin
- =(___)= ( )
- c.." ..cc--"\_? Internet address: JBHarris@Tenet.edu
- c./
- @>--;--
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- Steve
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- | In person: Steve Modena AB4EL |
- | On phone: (919) 515-5328 |
- | At e-mail: nmodena@unity.ncsu.edu |
- | samodena@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu |
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- | By snail: Crop Sci Dept, Box 7620, NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695 |
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