Fall 1999
Vol 8 Issue 1
IN THIS ISSUE...
Technology: Places for Student Voices
Assisting Student Learning with Technology
Technology and Computers- More than Just Classroom Learning
Laptops, Websites, and Angkor-Wat
Ten Years of Student Voices on the Electronic Forum
Learning, Programming and Moving On at MCLI
Learning that Provides a Direction for the Future
Are We Listening to International Students?
Hands-On Experience, Service Learning Makes it Real at MCC's Network Academy
bag of URLs
SEE ALSO...
The Forum
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Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction
Bag of URLS: Technology for Student Voices
MCLI collects web sites to share with you in our "Bag of URLs":
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/bag/
This site offers you features to search among more than 2800 items already submitted, a place for you to "drop" more URLs in the "bag," and an email list to sign up so you can receive notices when the most recent bag has been updated.
Below are some web sites "in the bag" that are related to this issue's theme.
There are now many free, web-based services for students to set up their own email accounts.
Free Email
http://www.thefreesite.com/email1.htm
Free Email (Yahoo)
http://dir.yahoo.com/
Business_and_Economy/
Companies/
Internet_Services/
Email_Providers/
Free_Email/
Mailing Lists
Electronic mailing lists ("listservs") are effective for intercommunication among groups by e-mail.
eGroups
http://www.egroups.com/
ONElist Mailing List Communities
http://www.onelist.com/
Web Discussion Boards
Taking mailing lists one step farther, a discussion board publicly displays a group's communications in a "threaded" format making it easier to follow the back and forth exchange. Available tools range from free web server CGI scripts to complete software packages such as O'Reilly WebBoard.
WebBBS
http://awsd.com/scripts/webbbs/
WWWBoard
http://worldwidemart.com/scripts/wwwboard.shtml
O'Reilly WebBoard
http://webboard.oreilly.com/
Chat Rooms
Chat rooms provide environments for live or almost real time communication.
TalkCity
http://www.talkcity.com/
BeSeen.com
http://www.beseen.com/
"Packaged" Environments
What if you want several tools? Try Yahoo's free service for creating "clubs" that include all of the functionalities mentioned here and more. Or, many instructors are now using course management packages such as Blackboard's CourseInfo (available at nine of the Maricopa Colleges) or WebCT that provide discussion boards, chats, and more.
Yahoo! Clubs
http://clubs.yahoo.com/
Blackboard
http://www.blackboard.com/
Maricopa Blackboard Group
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/bb/
WebCT
http://www.webct.com/
