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MEDIA
ADVISORY: ATTENTION TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION WRITERS
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01/06/00
Contact: Kathleen Maclay
(510) 643-5651
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WHAT: |
A
computer camp for professors at the University of California,
Berkeley. The "Faculty Technology Program" offers hands-on
workshops to introduce campus educators to high-tech teaching
methods such as:
* Broadcasting class lectures on topics ranging from digital
art to biology via BIBS, the Berkeley Internet Broadcasting
System;
* Using real-time, online chat rooms to increase student
participation in language learning; * Capturing audio and
video images;
* Developing course Web sites and online course materials;
* Projecting high resolution images in the classroom;
* Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). |
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WHEN: |
Monday-Wednesday,
June 5-7, 8:45 a.m.-4:45 p.m. |
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WHERE: |
The
Cheit Room, UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. |
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WHO: |
Faculty
members in the early stages of learning about high-tech
educational tools will attend the camp. Addresses will be
made by computer camp "veterans," including classics professor
Robert Knapp and French professor Rick Kern. |
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BACKGROUND:
Knapp
calls the Internet "another tool, like books and movies
and tools and artifacts. Just another arrow in the quiver."
He has developed his own Web site, with foreign language
writing exercises alongside a reference site for Julius
Caesar, the Roman historian and politician. But Knapp stressed
the need for face-to-face interaction in education: "I'll
be really curious about whether in 20 years students will
say, 'Professor Smith had such a terrific Web site, and
he always answered his e-mail.'" French professor Rick Kern
said he's convinced tools such as real-time chats can enhance
language learning. "I don't think students conjugate their
verbs any better or write any better timed essays," he said,
"but computer-mediated communication can stimulate the generation
of ideas, increase vocabulary and broaden learners' functional
ability in the language." |
NOTE: For
more information, call Ellen Meltzer at UC Berkeley's Teaching
Library at (510) 642-1580.
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