Transcript from smoke signals to the Internet

FROM SMOKE SIGNALS….
to the…..
….INTERNET
Session Outline
Introduction
 hands on (chat, bulletin board)
 discussion

from smoke signals to the
Internet
Man - the compulsive
communicator
(David Attenborough)
Revolutions in Communication
print
 telephone
 fax
 video conferencing
 cmc (computer mediated
communication)

Suspicion (the Luddite view)
telephones would never work
 role of women - initial resistance
 majority of Internet users are now
female (55%)

Computer Mediated
Communication (CMC)

email
– text based
– voice
forums/bulletin boards
 chat

– ‘typing talking’
– voice chat
– video
Why should I bother?
2004 - only 14% of jobs
WILL NOT
require some degree of technological fluency.
(networking 99 conference)
WHY ONLINE
DELIVERY?
approx 1M Australian households now
with Internet access (1998)
 Australia has 4M Internet users = 20%
of the population!
 QLD TAFE Study: 18 - 20% have the
capacity, and want online delivery
option

SA TAFE - POTENTIAL
DEMAND(1998)
 if
18 - 20% of TAFE SA
students want online option…..
 currently 90,000 TAFE SA
students
 18% of 90,000 = 16,200
students!
What does it mean to be
online?
It can be done in the classroom:
 Think to a future when all classrooms
have computers (like this one)
 use the Internet’s communication tools
as an adjunct to classroom delivery
DMI server
CF5
TAFE server
(city)
destination
the journey of an
Internet message
Uni of
Adelaide
USA
Sydney
satellite
(over the Pacific)
Today:

ESL Talk (SA TAFE ESL Homepage)
– chat
– bulletin board

Group Email List (ESL_SA)
THE PALACE
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