Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Reflections on Chapter 9
Today, with the increase in Internet connection speeds, advances in technology, the increase of total number of people online, and the decrease in connection costs it has become increasingly common to find traditional television content accessible freely and legally over the Internet. In addition to this, new Internet-only television content has appeared which is not distributed via cable, satellite, or terrestrial systems. Internet television utilizes the connections of the Internet to deliver video from a source to a target device. Teachers use this technology to bring classes together outside the normal classroom. Some of the ways in which Internet delivered television is used include: A digital camera capable of downloading images to a computer for transmission over the Internet or other network. A digital camera is capable of downloading images to a computer for transmission over the Internet or other network which give students the capabilities of a visual interpretation. Webcam software typically captures the images as JPEG or MPEG files and uploads them to the Web server. There are countless Webcam sites on the Internet that have cameras pointed at virtually everything. They provide videos of people going about their daily work as well as offering the online equivalent of the live audience. NetMeeting is a multi-point videoconferencing that has included in many versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 to Windows XP. It uses the protocol for video and audio conferencing, and is interoperable with based clients such as Internet Locator Service as reflector. NetMeeting was a popular way to perform video conferences and chatting over the Internet with the help of public ILS servers. This capability provides a learning shared environment, which a question or answer can be shared and gather to further the learning process.
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As you said in the blog that internet “provides a learning shared environment, which a question or answer can be shared and gather to further the learning process.” Internet for education has become the hot issues of current educational research and forum around the world. There is a good consensus that school teachers' computer competence and the availability of suitable local courseware (rather than finance and technology) are the major problems. Various kinds of teaching materials are now being put on the Internet for discussion and as resources. The advantages of internet in education are obvious and accepted widely.
Leonardo,
I haven't had an opportunity to use Internet television in my classroom yet, but I plan to in the near future. We do not have access to a webcam at our school, but hopefully that will soon change. I work at an alternative school, so we must monitor our students even more vigilantly than most schools. As our students and staff become more computer savvy, I hope to incorporate this technology into my lesson plans. Internet learning is definitely the way of the future.
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