Integrating Technology in the Second Language Classroom

 Before your next class :

1. Online discussion

Log onto your Blackboard / eLearning space for ICC 523. Look under the DISCUSSIONS tab in the left hand column, and follow instructions to contribute to the Literacy: Reading on the net threaded discussion. Please create threads for your own original comments/contributions that you should have written for assignment 1. You might also add your own comments as responses to other students' threads if that seems more appropriate (IOW you are commenting on the same aspect of the article). Later add at least two additional responses to others. Read what others have written and return to the discussion several times to read what has been added. We will be using several different discussion formats this semester.

2. Begin planning project

- Begin to plan ideas for your own project (see mini-project 1). What information do you want to present?  Keep it simple.  Begin to gather your materials and bring photos to class for scanning or editing. This is just to get you thinking at this point. We'll have much more time to work on this in class and at home.

Keep playing with Web page creation to get used to web editing.

- Review some notions about electronic character sets.  You do not need to read all of these pages, but be sure to take a look at a couple to get an idea of some of the general concepts and to refresh your memory of the basics from class discussion. Character sets and codes can be confusing when the concepts are new. Are there aspects of this that you find confusing?

A tutorial on character code issues.
Dan's Mail Format Site: Body: Character Sets.
8-bit vs. 7-bit (ASCII character set, ASCII FAQ).
ISO-LATIN-I (aka ISO-8859-1): The ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup, Roman Czyborra.
Unicode - The Unicode home page. Be sure to look at code charts with sample glyphs.

- Send an email message to yourself with a copy to robert.ponterio@cortland.edu using at least one word that requires accented letters (évidemment).  Check the email headers to see what character set and encoding you are using. If you can't find the email headers (after a reasonable search and a visit to "help", that's ok.

You may need to examine the preferences/options in your email software to find out how to make this work, though most email software these days will not require any changes in preferences. Note: If you can't get this to work, that too is part of the learning experience. Let me know what you tried in that case. But it will probably work just fine.

- Send a second email message containing a folder with files that you have zipped using either the built-in archiving or a program such as 7-zip. You want to put several files into a single zip file for easy transport.

4. Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia

Examine the Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia listed in the syllabus. Does your school have a clear policy?