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)
Registration Information (an email link to CCS Center for the School staff)
ATutor Site (Ackerman will maintain this site to support participants in the course)
More Information (an email link to Ackerman)

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