Sara- The new Netscape Composer 6.1 is different and has some difficulties in the area of web image insertion into pages.

De- English teaching and learning in China seminar Thursday in 615B

Jesse article discussion: (realplayer format)

Jesse chose an interesting article about Chapel Hills’ laptop requirement for incoming freshmen. It focused on the debate surrounding Chapel Hill’s requiring computers of students just as it requires textbooks.

Issue of what is needed to implement something like this:

Bottom line issues were money and bragging rights, they were not pedagogically based.

The university was interested in saving money on it’s own technology costs and we decided the project ended up being geared for a select few, those that qualified for financial aid or special loans to purchase the computers and those that would have purchased them outright. We also had concerns about the one platform set up.

After four years the computer that the students purchased would be out of date just at the time educationally, as a senior, that the student would need it most.

We discussed the CoHort group and the pedagogy behind the purchases of their computers. And Dr. Thompson talked about the planning behind the project.

We discussed the Means and Perlman articles

Centering around the question …What does technology have to do with it?

Nena shared a great story with all of us …about a monkey putting glasses on his tail? Is this correct Nena? This will stick with all of us for a long time I’m sure.

We also discussed the teacher as a constant learner. It’s important that we teach students to be learners. It’s not important that we know it all but rather that we know how to learn.

Another "story" that brought this all together was when we talked about how if a student knows how to drive, and the teacher knows the way….we need to let the student drive! We need to work together as a team and help each other in the learning process.