Instructional Technology

Internet Techniques

Some exercises to do for later or next time:

Resources

• What is RSS
• Pew Internet & American Life Project Report: Tech terms
  The average American internet user is not sure what podcasting is, what an RSS feed does, or what the term “phishing” means
  The report is a pdf resource in Moodle CS182 course

Activities

1. What is RSS? Explain what RSS is and how it relates to the ‘new web’. What’s an ‘aggregator’
   • Using an RSS feed reader — Sage
   • Using an online New aggregator — Rojo
2. What is podcasting?
   • creating a podcast (recording, editing, exporting to MP3)
   • publishing a podcast — different ways of doing this
   • listening to a podcast — iTunes or podcast reader
3. What is ‘phishing’?
   • spotting ‘phishy’ email messages.

Types of paper/writing

• Review (literature)
• Position (my stance on a topic)
• Research (longer and more formal)
• Talk (stream of consciousness)

Concepts:
Authentic voice of blogging.
Innocence of blogging

Posted by markp at October 27, 2005 12:41 PM