Required Readings

Tiene, D., & Ingram, A. (2001). Exploring Current Issues in Educational Technology. Toronto: McGraw Hill. ISBN 0-07-230480-4.

Technos Quarterly (1999). Interview II. On today: Jane Healy. Technos Quarterly, 8(4). http://www.technos.net/tq_08/4healy.htm

Kleiman, G. M. (2000). Myths and realities about technology in K-12 schools. Leadership and the New Technologies, 14. http://www.edc.org/LNT/news/Issue14/feature1.htm

Optional Texts

Healy, J. M. (1999). Failure to connect: How computers affect our children's minds and what we can do about it. New York: Touchstone Books.

Useful Links

SFU's Academic Computing Services (ACS). Various "How-tos" including web publishing at SFU. http://www.sfu.ca/acs/howtos/index.htm

To manage your SFU account, such as forwarding your SFU email to another account, changing your password, etc. go to: https://cgi.sfu.ca/~account/management.cgi

A comprehensive tutorial on web searches by the University of South Carolina. Does a good job covering search engines, meta search engines, using Booleans and proximity operators. In lesson 17, there are links to other explanations and sites about searches.
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/bones.html

Virgina Shear's "Netiquette" (Inter"Net" Etiquette).
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/index.html

Common emoticons and acronyms.
http://www.pb.org/emoticon.html

A giant list of emoticons by Computer User. Keep in mind that many of them are not common and if you use them, people may not have a clue about what youre are tyring to say. ; )
http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/emoticons.html

Software

For those of you who are interested on trying on your own, you can access your Blackcomb space (personal space) from home. You can try to transfer files through an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program. First, you should check your computer to see if you already have an FTP program.

Here's a link to one for the PC called FileZilla. It is 2.6MB in size, freeware (no cost) and works on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP. To login to your Blackcomb space, fill in the following fields. (If you need additional help, please refer to the help pull-down menu). Please note that Irina and I cannot provide any addition assistance on this.

An easy-to-use shareware (15-day trial) called Fetch seems to be the most popular for the Mac. Here's Fetch for OS X (operating system 10) or Fetch for OS's prior to version 10. Again, you'll have to figure out where to enter the server/address, user/login, and password information.

You may want to refer to SFU general hints on setting up your FTP programs.

Listservs

Here are two other listservs:

WWWEDU. The "internet's largest forum on the use of the World Wide Web in education" http://www.ibiblio.org/edweb/wwwedu.html

EDTECH. Discussion of educational technology issues.

To subscribe, address an e-mail message to: listserv@h-net.msu.edu In the message body type: subscribe edtech Your First and Last Name

• Archives: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~edweb

Acknowledgements

Content for this site and the course has been adapted from previous offerings by Drs. Kevin O'Neill, Laura D'Amico and Cheryl Amundsen.