Re: new subscribers

[Kathy Graves <kgraves@SISSCOE.SISNET.SSKU.K12.CA.US>]

>Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 13:47:40 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Mike Eisenberg <mike@ericir.syr.edu>
>To: Kathy Graves <kgraves@sisscoe.sisnet.ssku.k12.ca.us>
>Subject: Re: new subscribers
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>sounds great.  I will be in Calif next Spring for 4 months.  Who knows?
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>Can you post your message to BigSix so others see what you are doing?
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>Thanks and regards,
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>Mike
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>On Fri, 2 Jun 1995, Kathy Graves wrote:
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>> Dear Mike,
>>
>> Saw your message on LM_NET.  Although we're not currently using BigSix, we
>> have purchased the books and are looking into integrating the precepts into
>> our Teacher Training Center classes.  The TTC is our County Office of Ed's
>> new computer lab (networked and hooked into our local Internet node and
>> everything [very uptown!]), in which we will be teaching classes to
>> teachers and students re: use of the Internet.  Originally we thought we'd
>> focus only on the Internet, but then realized that we had a large group o
>> teachers in our county who have only ever used an Apple IIe, so the need
>> for a basic "Computer Literacy" class is being discussed.  We will also
>> design classes to teach email, FTP, Gopher, Veronica, searching local
>> databases (e.g. our IMC's two online catalogs in the library and AV
>> department).  Most importantly, however, we have felt that once teachers
>> have the skills to navigate and to teach their students to navigate, it
>> needs to be tied to the curiulum.  Here is where I am lobbying for that
>> class to be based on BigSix.  Although we don't have anything created yet,
>> we will be talking and designing the classes this summer.  I would be happy
>> to share anything we come up with after we have something to share.  Just
>> thought that you might like to know that we have an awareness of BigSix and
>> plan to use it in our classes.  If you're ever in extreme Northern
>> California (Peter Milbury is considered to be in Southern Extreme Northern
>> California!), let me know and you'd be most welcome to sit in on one of our
>> classes, or even teach one!
>>
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>>
>> Kathy Graves                            kgraves@sisnet.ssku.k12.ca.us
>> IMC Director/Librarian                  phone: 916-842-8427
>> Siskiyou County Office of Education     fax: 916-842-8436
>> 609 South Gold Street
>> Yreka, CA 96097
>>
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>          |       Mike Eisenberg   <mike@ericir.syr.edu>             |
>          |      Professor, School of Information Studies            |
>          | Director, ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology |
>          |         4-216 Center for Science and Technology          |
>          |      Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-4100        |
>          |        Phone: 315/443-4549   Fax: 315/443-5448           |
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Kathy Graves                            kgraves@sisnet.ssku.k12.ca.us
IMC Director/Librarian                  phone: 916-842-8427
Siskiyou County Office of Education     fax: 916-842-8436
609 South Gold Street
Yreka, CA 96097

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