Chapter 8

Three things from Chapter 8 that I learned were:
1. The term "telecollaborations" which has a "three general application category" assigned to it. These three categories are: "interpersonal exchanges" which students are able to be in contact with other students or teachers through some sort of technology, "information collection and analysis" which allow students to access information from a database kind of system, and "problem solving" in which students work together to solve a problem, come up with different solutions, etc.
2. "Webquests" is the fancy term for students working together to solve problems where they are required to do several tasks in anticipation of figuring out a solution.
3. "PERL" which is like a way for people to access answers from webpages in a live conference or layout on servers. Basically, it's like asking someone a question face to face, but rather on the internet and then getting live feedback.

Two things I'd use in my classroom are:
1."KIDLINK's" because I think it's very important for my students to learn what other kids in other countries or parts of their own country are doing, when they do it, what they are learning, etc. With this kind of technology, kids are allowed to create documents about their own way of learning or what's being taught in classrooms around the world. It gives kids the opportunity to experience a new culture and find new topics of interest to them.
2. "Electronic Field Trip" because, again, students will be able to experience something they would not normally get to do. The Smithsonian would be an amazing place to tour, but most schools can't afford to send students there, so a virtual tour or field trip to a place like that would be very informative and an experience that students wouldn't forget. It lets students of all ages, backgrounds, cultures, and social classes be equal in the opportunities presented in these field trips.

One question I have from this chapter is:
While people have online classes and are allowed or made to turn in their homework through some sort of internet database, the chapter says "FTPs" are the way to do it, but what about PDF files? Don't they do the same job as "FTPs"?