CALL on the cheap

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CALL on the cheap

• Using services freely available on the Internet

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Types of service available

• E-mail
• WWW
• Bulletin boards
• E-mail groups

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E-mail

• Exchange letters with individual students
• Good way to submit assignments
• Becomes unmanageable with large numbers of
  students

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WWW 1

• Post lesson or course outline students can view
  before or after lesson.
• Extends possible scope of lectures with student
  preparation, even difficult lectures may be
  comprehensible.

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WWW 2

• Requires technical proficiency
• Can be very time-consuming may need to keep
  updating site
• Static
• Non-interactive

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Bulletin Boards

• ezBoard
• Post information about lectures
• Students ask questions or make comments
• Other students can read all postings
• True interaction group-based learning

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Bulletin Boards 2

• No notification of new messages
• Long topics/forums with many topics can be
  confusing.

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E-mail groups/mailing list

• Yahoo Groups (was eGroups)
• Mail automatically delivered to all members no
  need to check for new messages
• Owner can choose whether to allow members to send
  messages

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E-mail groups 2

• Interface not as attractive as ezBoard
• Psychological difference receiving e-mail
  andparticipating in a discussion

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ezBoard details

• http//www.ezBoard.com/

Press CREATE button on homepage and fill in
details as prompted.
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Board top page for students
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Yahoo Group details

• http//groups.yahoo.com/

Press CLICK HERE TO REGISTER and follow
instructions
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Dont give students the subscribe email address
because they wont be able to join from a
communal computerUse web or invitation methods!
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Website details

• Homepage introduction to course goals,
  etclist of topics
• 1 page per topic or per lecturequestionslinks
  to more information

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Preparation

• Give students list of addresses website,
  ezBoard, and Yahoo Group

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Before each lecture...

• Make webpage in advance
• Create new forum on ezBoard
• Send message using Yahoo Groupsbrief mention of
  topiclinks to webpage and ezBoard forum

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Ongoing

• Visit the board regularly and post replies to
  maintain student interest.