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Welcome to ICTE, our Information and Communication Technologies netcourse.

ICTE participation includes a face-to-face meeting where you will get the feeling of
the course, and four weeks where individualized activities and interaction with
others on the web will allow you to achieve weekly goals.

When you first log in to this course, you should:

• Meet your instructors by pressing the button

• Use the link to fill or update your HOME PAGE. Insert a

150x150 pixels picture and relevant information about yourself.

• Use the button to get a copy of the course syllabus and

access to course materials. Download each of them and make a folder in your
computer.

• Find out which of the following programs are not installed in your computer. If
you have administrator privileges, download and install each of them. If not,
send a Help Desk Ticket to WSSU Information Resources Office requesting
program installation (Help tickets must be posted at
http://help.wssu.edu/scripts/texcel/ServiceWise/CLogin.dll )..

o CMAPS (Concept maps tool), available at

http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/

o iTunes (podcast audio and video), available at

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

o JING (screen capture and screen cast), available at

http://www.jingproject.com

o Pronto (instant messenger in Blackboard setting, voice and text

chatting), available at
https://pronto.wimba.com/user/faces/settings.xhtml
 o Quicktime (video player from Apple), available at
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

o Skype (instant messenger, text, audio and video chatting), available at

http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/windows/

o Windows Live Messenger (instant messenger, text, audio and video

chatting), available at http://download.live.com/

Weekly activities are accessible via . Press the corresponding

navigation button to select the group of activities in which you are working on.

Each one of weekly activities includes four components.

1. Using multimedia technology we will present about a selected ICTE, those

that we consider key for technology-based instruction. You will be required to
discuss how these technologies could be used to enhance your teaching.

2. A scavenger hunt activity will allow you to explore every week one
technology of your interest; your findings should be presented in the

, including a combination of texts, graphics, screen capture

comments, links to URLs, embedded video or audio clips.

3. Small groups will be active for the third component; strengths and interests
from group members should lead the interaction. Each week a group member
will explain to his/her colleagues when, how and with what strategies to use
an ICTE that s/he knows about and that is of collective interest. A wiki will
allow each group to build knowledge together based on their online
interaction and on further individual testing of the explained technology.

4. Each week will close documenting lessons learned, to be shared using a

weekly blog. At the beginning of the next week participants will be invited to
review these messages and to write a meta-reflection, that is, a reflection
about lessons learned last week.

Interaction with facilitators and classmates

Facilitators will be available both for text-based and/or verbal interaction on the
web.

• ICTE members will use (Bb-Messaging system) for

asynchronous text-based interaction, including weekly feedback to be
provided by facilitators at the beginning of the next week.
• can be used to verbally or
visually interact with course facilitators and classmates. Verbal interaction
will be on demand, usually during office hours declared by facilitators in their
ICTE web page, or with previous appointment via WSSU’s calendar system.

• Solve your technical or conceptual problems as soon as they appear, use

resources available in