School Leadership in the Use of Internet Technologies for Literacy and Learning
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What is Telecollaboration?

Judi Harris (1998) believes that the Internet offers educators three structure types that function as flexible frameworks for teachers' instructional design tools. Each activity structure encompasses five to seven different types of activities which are flexibly designed to support various learning goals.
  1. Interpersonal Exchanges are those activities in which individuals communicate electronically with other individuals, individuals communicate with groups or groups communicate with other groups. 
  2. Information Collection and Analysis activities are those which involve students collecting, compiling, and comparing different types of interesting information.
  3. Problem Solving activities promote critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-based learning. 





Categories of Telecommunication

The structured Internet activities discussed above usually fall into one of four categories of telecommunication (Informatica, 2002).  

  1. Class to Class: sharing information and resources
  2. Teacher to Teacher:  planning, sharing and support
  3. Teacher or Expert to Class: answering their questions or communicating in the guise of a persona. 
  4. Student to Student: email keypals








Telecollaborative Learning Environments
  1. Listserv is an online email community of individuals who are interested in a common topic.
  2. Electronic Bulletin Board System is like an electronic message center.
  3. Chatroom is an environment within which two or more users communicate via computers in real-time

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