Integrating the Internet into the Classroom
Facilitator: Michael Krauss

Technical Requirements

All participants should:

• Have basic Email and Web browsing skills.
  
• Have consistent access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection. Minimum download speed of 128 kbps recommended. Check your connection speed here.
  • A more practical test is to try to view one of this video: Social Networking in Plain English. You will not be viewing videos every day. However, viewing videos will be common during the course. If you cannot access these videos from usual computer, please arrange access to a computer where you can watch.
    
    
• Have consistent access to a computer with one of the following operating systems and using one of the following Web browsers. If needed, you can download Internet Explorer here. You can download Firefox here.
  
  
• Have the ability to open .pdf documents. If you cannot open this document, click here to download Adobe Reader.
  
  
• Have Flash player and Java installed on your computer. You can test here to see if you have the Flash player. Test here to see if you have Java. If needed, you can download Flash here. You can download Java here.
  
  
• Optional: Have the capability of recording voice either via an internal microphone (most laptops have this) or by way of an external microphone. Here is a tutorial for setting up your microphone for recording.
  
  
• Optional: Have a set of headphones.
  
  NOTE: If you are looking to purchase equipment for the future: Skype has a shop with a sampling of headsets, Web cams and other items that help with online communication. VoiceThread has recommendations too. I use an inexpensive USB microphone and inexpensive headphones.

   

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Updated: 2/5/11