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Souham Alkhazaal
Web-based Collaborative writing project (ICA)
Overview
The Internet Classroom Assistant is a communication tool that brings
• web-based conferencing• personal messaging • document sharing • scheduling and • link/resource sharing to a variety of learning
environments
The ICA• could be used by post-secondary
teachers with their students
• was designed not as a replacement for the classroom, but It is rather as a supplement allowing greater communication and sharing of
information among students and between teachers and their
students. Souham Al Khazaal
The Features Include
Scheduling:
Teachers can put the class schedule
On-line with a seven day
advane view on the class
home page
Conferencing
• can create the threaded conferencing on topics for the class
Teachers
•If teachers allow
or
•Can create their own topics
students
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Document sharing
Students and teachers have the ability to publish their documents on the site
Automatically integrated with scheduling
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Personal Messaging
Similar to traditional email
but fully integrated with document sharing and conferencing
Personal messaging
is a great way to communicate with and between individuals in the class
comment privately on conferencing postings
or give private feedback on published papers
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Link Sharing
Teachers
Can share links to Internet
resources related to the topics created
Students
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Setting up a class on Internet Classroom Assistant
Teachers need to choose • A usename• A Password• a name for the class• Some contact information
• And then the teacher will be given a class key to be given to the students
Joining a Class- Students
To join a class• go to
http://www.nicenet.org• click on join a class• enter the (Class Key)• give a Username and
Password • fill in your username
and password again• click on Log In to the
ICA
Observations
• Online conferencing allows everyone to have a say in a more or less equal way, equal time for everyone.
• it provides a way for students to communicate with each other in writing and they have more time to think before writing
• it's motivating and less embarrassing for students
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• It can be used with flexible timing as, it can be assigned as homework or used in class.
• It doesn't need any special software. Students can access it from anywhere.
After posting the mesage
Students can edit their messages
Teacher, can edit the posts
delete them or
print them out
English 1E1
Home Conferencing Link Sharing Documents Class Schedule Class Members
Personal Messages:
View | Send
Classes :Join | Create | Drop Edit User Profile ICA FAQ
PROTECT YOUR
PRIVACY: LOG OUT
Conferencing Topics [ Post New Message ]
All Topics: Friendship - ( 14 messages posted )
updated 02/16/04 [post]
Choosing a Career - ( 46 messages posted ) updated 06/02/02 [post]
What a story - ( 33 messages posted ) updated 06/02/02 [post]
Parents - ( 22 messages posted ) updated 06/02/02 [post]
Could you do me a favour - ( 37 messages posted ) updated 06/02/02 [post]
THE IDEAL FRIEND - ( 7 messages posted ) updated 06/02/02 [post]
Shabbabs of Ajman University - ( 13 messages posted ) updated 05/28/02 [post]
Friendship - ( 21 messages posted ) updated 04/26/02 [post]
View All TopicsGo
Conclusion
• Students' responses were wonderful.
• I feel I’ve become more accessible to my students and they feel more free to voice their problems and concerns. I put here two messages from students as examples of that:
Souham Alkhazaal
• FROM: joseph marashly (12/4/01 2:26PM) SUBJECT: RE: [Reply | Archive | Delete | Forward]
• hi doctor really iwas very happy becasue i make all the exercises write , but i hape and if you dont mined to make more than this exercise because i think that they are very important specially , we will finish the book and i didnt see any part of gramer is more important that unite 4 , so please if you dont mined , make more exercises about this unite , i think that will use it beforew the finnal exam
• thanks for reading my e-mails and i'm wating your e-mail as soon as possibly
• your student • joseph marashly Souham Alkhazaal
• FROM: salem al khausibi (11/27/01 6:38AM) SUBJECT: [Reply | Archive | Delete | Forward]
• could you please give me some rull about how can l read in right way
• my email [email protected]
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Thank you
Souham Alkhazaal
