Return-Path: <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g3HE1Qu27968; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:01:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:01:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <F162jyyPp3aTnBbF40Y0000713b@hotmail.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Eric Appleton" <eric_appleton@hotmail.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2403] Re: Teachers and Web Publishing X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 2215 Lines: 43 Emily, These are both great questions and ones that I think about a lot. >Have you (panelists) or list members come up with any successful > >strategies for building program capacity to support these kinds of > >projects beyond dependence on the work of one or two people? I have tried a few strategies for involving more people in the computer lab and in technology in general. I did a couple 2-hour workshops for the other teachers in our department in basic HTML coding. A couple teachers were very interested and so we have started meeting once a week for an hour or so to work on web sites. One teacher is working on a personal web site. Another helps me with the Education web site. We're calling it a web study group and I'm also inviting students and teachers from other programs to stop by. I think that you have to let people work at their own pace and help them find the ways that they can get involved in a project. You can also ask students and teachers who aren't tech-savvy to help collect content, copyedit!, take photographs, etc. A lot of the hard work involved is not technically difficult. >Also, and this is somewhat related, have you observed in your programs > >that the way you and your students are using technology has created > >increased demand program-wide for the integration of technology into > >other classes and program services? The Fortune Society does a lifeskills training for people living with HIV and AIDS that runs on a 3 month cycle. I have been running 2 1-hour introductory computer classes for this group as part of their training. We did this again last week, but this time we did it a lot differently. Rather than having me run the class, I invited their group to visit to of my regular computer classes. My students were the tutors and we spent the week before planning how we would teach the class and talking about the best way to teach. My students did a great job and everyone was proud of themselves. I also see it as a way to broaden the reach of the computer classes here. Eric _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
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