In collaboration with the Castleton State College Center for the School, Gary Ackerman and the West Rutland School will offer The Internet in the Modern Classroom, a 3-credit graduate course for teachers during the summer of 2006.

Participants in this course will gain experience using a number of methods for using the Internet to support learning and for developing and maintaining a dynamic web presence. 

Focusing themes of the course:

Web Page Design: A Primer
Google Can't Do It All: Internet Search Strategies
Meaningful Teaching Using the Internet
Message Boards: Getting Out from Under Your Inbox
Blogging: Web Publishing Should Not Be This Easy
Podcasting: What? Why? and How?

More Information:

Tentative Syllabus (an rtf file... open it with your word processor)

page created: January 2, 2006
last updated: March 12, 2006