A BRIEF GUIDE TO NICE NET'S INTERACT CLASSROOM ASSISTANT

A BRIEF GUIDE TO NICENET'S INTERNET CLASSROOM ASSISTANT

Nicenet's Internet Classroom Assistant (ICA) is a simple course management tool that allows you to add basic Web-based components to your class. It has a simple interface, low graphics (to increase connection speeds), and you can create a class site with just a few minutes of your time. Nicenet is designed for post-secondary classrooms and offers Web-basedconferencing, personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling and link / resource sharing. Designed by Internet professionals who have donated their time, it is provided free of charge and without advertising. Server space for the Internet Classroom Assistant is donated by Northwestern University.

Nice net provides you with a new way to communicate with your students and for your students to communicate and share their work and ideas with each other. All students will have access to Nice net as long as they have access to a computer with an Internet connection and a Web browser. When you create a course, you will have to choose a user name and a password. You will also get a  "Class Key" which is the code you will give your students so they can join the online component of your course. Keep in mind that the simplicity of Nice net comes at a price -- it will not have the Web-based features that a more powerful course management system such as Blackboard.

Nicenet provides the following features:

Conferencing A threaded discussion feature like a newsgroup or message board for students to post and respond to discussion topics in the course.  The conferences in Nicenet are asynchronous -- that is, they are not in real time like a chat forum.  Either the instructor or students can create topics for discussion.Students can respond to each other's comments and the entire class sees all the messages.  You can create a discussion topic and ask students to respond to it, or to also respond to other students' comments on the topic.  In addition, a student can also reply to a fellow student's message individually so only that student receives the response. Conferencing also enables group discussion and collaboration where a small number of students can work together in a separate conference.   This is especially useful when students are working together on small group projects.  Link Sharing Post Internet resources for your students.  To do so, you must type in the url or -- the easiest and most accurate way -- copy and paste the url directly from the location bar in your browser. To do the latter, go to the link sharing section, and click on add link.  Now, open another window in your Web browser and go to the Web site that you want to add.  Right click (use the right button on your mouse) on the url in the location bar, and copy the url.  Now, minimize this browser window and in the first window where Nicenet is open, paste the url directly into it.  Note that you can also add a description of the Web site.  Document sharing Post documents for your students.  If you check the box on the bottom of this screen, you will automatically create a discussion topic associated with this document in the Conferencing section. Class Schedule Post new assignments or class events here. Class Members A list of all class members and their email addresses registered in the class. Personal Messages:      View  |  Send Similar to traditional email, but it is integrated with document sharing and conferencing.  Users can send personal messages to other members of the class.

INFORMATION ABOUT PODCASTE

            I                 Information about PODCAST

A podcast is a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series of audio radio, video,PDF, or epub files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device. The word is a neologism derived from "broadcast" and "pod" from the success of the iPod, as podcasts are often listened to on portable media players. In the context of Apple devices, the term "Podcasts" refers to the audio and video version of podcasts, whereas the textual version of podcasts is classified under the app known as Newsstand.A list of all the audio or video files currently associated with a given series is maintained centrally on the distributor's server as a web feed, and the listener or viewer employs special client application software, known as a pod catcher, that can access this web feed, check it for updates, and download any new files in the series. This process can be automated so that new files are downloaded automatically. Files are stored locally on the user's computer or other device ready for offline use, giving simple and convenient access to episodic content.^[1][2] In this way it is contrasted to webcasting (Internet streaming).As discussed by Richard Berry, podcasting is both a converged medium bringing together audio, the web and portable media player, and a disruptive technology that has caused some in the radio business to reconsider some established practices and preconceptions about audiences, consumption, production and distribution.^[3] This idea of disruptiveness is largely because no one person owns the technology; it is free to listen and create content, which departs from the traditional model of 'gate-kept' media and production tools.^[3] It is very much a horizontal media form: producers are consumers and consumers become producers and engage in conversations with each other.^[3]Video podcasts A video podcast on the Crab Nebula byNASAA video podcast (sometimes shortened to vodcast) includes video clips. Web televisionseries are often distributed as video podcasts.Since the spread of the internet and the use of Internet broadband connection TCP, which helps to identify different applications, a faster connection to the internet has been created and a wide amount of communication has been created. Video podcasts have become extremely popular online and are short clips of video, usually part of a longer recording. Video clips are being used on pre-established websites and more and more websites are being created solely for the purpose of video clips and podcasts. Video podcasts are being streamed on intranets and extranets, private and public networks, and taking communication through the internet to whole new levels.Most video clips are now submitted and produced by individuals and are becoming more common.^[ Video podcasts are also being used for web television, commonly referred to as Web TV, which is a rapidly growing genre of digital entertainment, using various forms of new media to deliver original shows or series to an audience. Delivered originally online via broadband and mobile networks, web television shows, or web series. Video podcasts used for web television are typically short-form, anywhere from 2–9 minutes per episode. Typically they are used for advertising, video blogs, amateur filming, journalism and convergence with traditional media.Enhanced podcastsAn enhanced podcast can display images simultaneously with audio. These can contain chapter markers, hyperlinks, and artwork; all of which is synced to a specific program or device. When an enhanced podcast is played within its specific program or device, all the appropriate information should be displayed at the same time and in the same window, making it easier to display materials. Enhanced podcasting is considered to be a very practical way to present information. This use of technology is becoming more prominent in schools, universities and businesses; as it is an efficient way to present school and university lectures, slide shows, video clips, and other presentation materials of the like.

Wikis In Plain English

Hellow friends! My name is Ketan Bhunetar. I have seen one video on Wikis In Plain English. In this video there are four friends who are going for camping together. In this video it is shown to us that e-mail is not good at codenating  and organizing as group impact. This is the odd way. We just start with an e-mail. It starts with one and the thing becomes brush. The important information is carried everyone in inbox. This is code-nation. There is a better way. It requires the use of using the website called wiki. Using a wiki a group can coordinate their shape better. This is the new way. Most wiki work same. They can make easy to everyone that change what appear on the wiki with clicking a button. We can erasing a word and rewrite it. There are two words very important Edit and Save. They always used together. Wiki has an edit button. Clicking the edit button transform the webpage into a document or you have to click it and the webpage become a document ready for editing. Editing a page means you can add or move words or change up their look just like writing a letter. Once you finish editing, you can click save and the document becomes a webpage once again and it is ready for editing easily edit, write and save. Using this process the group can co-ordinate more easily. In the blogger we can click on the edit button, write some important information into it and by clicking save button we can save whatever we have edited into the blogger without e.mail. The wiki can also help us to find us a location. On the wiki page we can click edit button to edit the least information into the wiki then. After editing an information click save button to save whatever we have added new. This way Wikipedia is used into the language learning or it is used to enhance our knowledge about how internet can become useful for us into the language learning.