The Tools which Assist Us
The Technology of the 21st Century Schoolhouse
In order to work with all of the different activities in the 21st Century
Schoolhouse, you will need to work with the following tools:
- E-mail:
It will be best if each of you have your own email account.
This way other students can write you directly.
You can get your own free email account through the schoolhouse.
We will tell you how to do this later.
- Chat:
Chat allows you to "talk" with others in "real time".
By real time we mean that as soon as you type in your sentence
and press ENTER - they see what you wrote.
You can talk with many different people at the same time, this way.
There are different types of tools for chats.
You can find information for setting up and using two of these tools
on our "IRC" page.
- Web Publishing:
As you see, the 21st Century Schoolhouse Website is growing all the time.
There are the general pages which tell about the schoolhouse.
And there are also the pages which you will be constructing yourself.
You will learn more about the pages that you will be constructing for
the web when you get to the "Web Portfolio" section.
- Interactive Forms:
These are forms for you to fill out on the schoolhouse website.
When you fill them out, your information will be posted on the
website.
You will be filling out some of these forms during this training
session.
Maybe later you will put up your own forms for others to fill out.
There are also forms for visitors to fill out such as the 21st Century
Schoolhouse Guestbook.
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