Affirming Email Behavior

Assembled by the facilitators of IECC: Craig Rice, Bruce Roberts and Howard Thorsheim. A list of email behaviors which can affirm people's feeling of recognition and increase their sense of engagement and well-being.  http://www.stolaf.edu/people/roberts/psych-121/affirming.html

Classroom strategies

How to motivate students. How to get support from your school, including administration and IT. How to get community support. How to fit VC in your lesson and schedule. Netiquette for Students.   http://www.att.virtualclassroom.org/VC99_E/tips/tips1.html

Considerations for US Students Communicating with Students from Other Countries

A list of things teachers should remind students to consider in communications with other cultures. Diane Midness, ISPT http://www.ga.unc.edu/NCCIU/ispt/resources/success.html

Virtual Architecture

How can we design curriculum-based telecollaboration and teleresearch that are worth the time, effort, and expense involved? Thinking tools for teachers ("wetware")--structures, purposes, sequences, and functions--can help provide practical answers to this rarely-asked question. Judi Harris' Virtual Architecture site describes this unique approach to project design and provides many examples of curriculum-based projects that illustrate each type of wetware. http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~jbharris/Virtual-Architecture/

The Internet Handbook

An Inclusive Magnet for Teaching All Students. This resource book is aimed at helping teachers use the Internet as a tool to educate all students in your classroom, including students with disabilities, auditory and visual learners, students from rural areas, those who do not speak English as their first language --- in short, everyone. Making the Internet accessible to these children will also help ensure their participation in international collaborations on the world wide web.