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TU4022--Telecommunications, Distance Learning, and Colaborative 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

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
Readings:
  • N/A

Lecture:
  • Introduction
  • Completion of student biographies.
  • Choosing the right medium: video, broadcast, vcr, and as multimedia component.
  • Present video assignment--to come up with major characteristics of video/film medium in non-interactive mode and identify advantages and disadvantages: A&E Biography, sports (NETWORK OR ESPN), MTV, CNN.
  • Internet ID review and creation process.
  • Personal web page discussion (time permitting).

View Exemplary Video:
  • Blue Planet, unique visual perspective and time capture
  • Americas (overpopulation - Canada) Expert discussants
  • Treasure Island Sequential mode
  • Kobe Quake timeliness
  • Triumph of the Will perspective, best speaker/presenter for position

Resources:

September 19 -- Columbia Video Network & Exemplary TU4022 Projects
Readings:

Lecture:
  • Discuss personal homepage assignment.
  • Columbia Video Network (CVN) introduction and tape viewing.
  • Exemplary TU4022 projects -- The Pineapple Project

Resources:

September 26 --
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Lecture:

Resources:

VIDEO ASSIGNMENT DUE.

October 3 --
Readings:

Lecture:
  • Introduction to Internet and common tools.
  • Demonstration of Internet teleconferencing via CUSeeMe.

Resources:
  • CUSeeMe FAQ : CU-SeeMe, a Macintosh and PC videoconferencing program, is available free from Cornell University under copyright of Cornell and its collaborators.
  • CUSeeMe Event Guide: The place to be, other than CuSeeMe . This site has been Netscape 1.1 zapped . People Pages . The CU-SeeMe phone book. Look up your friends and then call them on your CU-SeeMe videophone! . Events . The Definitive Event List . Submit . Fill out ...
  • CU Connect: Seeking an alternative to the "reflector scene"? Try CU Connect. CU Connect will randomly select someone else who is also running CU Connect, and make a direct connection between you and that other person.

October 10 --
Readings:

Lecture:
  • Implications of Internet teleconferencing for education.

Resources:

October 17 --
Readings:

Lecture:
  • Channel 13 - Learning Link and new school use of ITV.

Resources:

October 24 --
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Lecture:

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November 1 --
Readings:

Lecture:
  • Telecommunications and the global curriculum.

Resources:

November 7 -- Election Day (No Class)
Readings:

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November 14 --
Readings:

Lecture:

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November 21 --
Readings:

Excursion:
  • Paul Christianson, Associate Director - Electrical Engineering: Visit to advanced telecommunications research center at C.U.

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November 28 --
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Lecture:

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December 5 --
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Presentation:
  • Final Team Presentations

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December 12 --
Readings:

Presentation:
  • Final Team Presentations

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December 19 --
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Final Exam:

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