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TU4022--Telecommunications, Distance Learning, and Collaborative Interchange (3)

Teachers College, Columbia University
Fall Term 1995
Tuesday 7:20 to 9:00 p.m.
[305 Goodman Room]

Instructor:
Robert P. Taylor | rpt4@columbia.edu
Office: 332 HM | Tel: 678-3344 | Office Hours: TBA

Teaching Assistant:
Shawn B. Mishler | shawn@ilt.columbia.edu
Office: 50 Thorndike | Tel: 678-4000

Teaching Assistant:
Thane Terrill | TTERRILL@bic.org

The Class List

Assignments
  • Video Viewing Assignment
  • Personal Home Page
  • Internet Tasks
  • Ponting   Writing Assignment
  • Individual Assignment
  • Final Group Project

  • Description:
    Introduction to the use and educational implications of telecommunications, distance learning, and collaborative interchange using telecommunications.

    Texts:
    Julia Case Bradley, A Quick Guide to the Internet, International Thompson Publishing Company, 1995.
    Clive Pointing, A Green History of the World, Penguin, 1991
    Patrick Suppes, "Uses of Computing in Education", Scientific American, September 1966

    Optional Texts:
    Lincoln D. Stein, How to Set Up and Maintain a Web Site, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995.

    Scheduled Topics and Readings with Suggested Resources:

    September 12 -- Introduction

    September 19 -- Overview of Telecommunication Tools

    September 26 -- Personal Web Pages and CVN

    VIDEO ASSIGNMENT DUE.

    October 3 -- HEAP and NYC BOE

    October 10 -- Videoconferencing and Education

    PERSONAL WEBPAGE ASSIGNMENT DUE.

    October 17 -- TC Web Site Efforts by Ena Haines and Andrea Johnson

    October 24 -- The Ralph Bunche School

    October 31 -- David VanEsselstyn presents The Pineapple Project

    November 7 -- Election Day (No Class)

    Special Meeting : November 13 -- COMPUTER CONFERNCING: ALTERNATIVE TO LECTURES 1:00 - 2:30 pm

    November 14 -- Sr. Kathleen Burns and Dina Luciano

    November 21 -- Paul Christianson -- meet in the lobby of the Schapiro Building on Morningside Campus.

    November 28 -- TBA

    December 5 -- Hardware presentation

    December 12 -- Final Team Presentations

    December 19 -- TBA