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Chapter 1 ... 4 pages of the 16 page chapter called "Computer Hardware and Vocabulary"
Chapter 2 ... 3 pages of the 8 page chapter called "Nothing But Net: Get Connected!"
Chapter 3 ... 10 pages of the 20 page chapter called "Educational Software and Web Sites"
Chapter 4 ... 3 pages of the 88 page chapter called "Humanware"
Chapter 5 ... 4 pages of the 22 page chapter called "Ideas and Samples from Three Schools: Concord, Nobles, and Chapin"
Chapter 6 ... 3 pages of the 25 page chapter called "Get on The Web "
Chapter 7 ... 3 pages of the 12 page chapter called "Useful One Page Handouts "
Chapter 8 ... 3 pages of the 18 page chapter called "Thinking Outside the Box"
Chapter 9 ... pages 3 pages of the 14 page chapter called "Mac & Windows JV Skills"
Chapter 10 ... 3 pages of the 10 page chapter called "Mac & Windows Varsity Skills"
Chapter 11 ... 4 pages of the 14 page chapter called "To Copy or Not to Copy"
Chapter 12 ... 3 pages of the 14 page chapter called "Word Processing"
Chapter 13 ... 3 pages of the 16 page chapter called "Spreadsheets"
Chapter 14 ... 3 of the 10 page chapter called "Blogs, Wikis, and RSS"
Chapter 15 ... 3 pages of the 42 page chapter called "Software Tips: Step By Step"
Chapter 16 ... 6 pages of the 10 page chapter called "Web 2.0"
Comments (2)
Sara H said
at 3:17 pm on Jul 6, 2008
I read all of them and have already learned some new stuff. For instance, I never new that the power manager can get corrupted and give you battery problems on your laptop. I passed that tidbit on to my daughter who has had problems with her Mac. I enjoyed reading the chapter about bits and bytes and thought it offered good explanations of the basic principles, some of which were new to me. I'm not sure I'll ever remember all the numbers attached to the terms!
Stephen Shoe said
at 8:50 pm on Jul 20, 2008
I too perused all of the excerpts. I find the ethical questions raised in chapter 11 interesting. My wife is a public school teacher, and I am beginning my classroom teaching experience after working to train teachers at the university level. Her district (and the State of Florida) block things like YouTube from access on their networks. At the university, we had unfiltered access to the internet (it was monitored by IT, so if you couldn't show a compelling research reason why you visited a specific site, you might lose privileges), however we had to sign a term of use agreement that recognized we could have privileges suspended. While there is plenty of un-savory content on the internet, we as teachers should be teaching our students the proper way to research and how to skim the cream off of sites like YouTube, and leave the dregs behind.
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