1) If you don't already have an email account through UMBC, then get one immediately. You'll need this for communicating with class, putting up your own website, accessing myUMBC, and accessing information through UMBC library, including downloading full-text articles. Very handy for research.
Visit Email Accounts at the Office of Information Technology's (OIT) website.
2) Subscribe to class email list.
As soon as you have a UMBC email account, go visit Listproc @ UMBC and read about email lists. To subscribe to our class list, simply click on the new web interface at lpUMBC and fill in the class list name: educ603. The nice thing about the new interface is that it allows you to manage all lists you're subscribed to at UMBC.
3) Ensure that you have a userid and password for OldPuebloMOO, where I'll hold office hours. (Visit my page on Office Hours for more information.)
As soon as you have a UMBC email account, please send me your userid and name. I will send this information to the OldPuebloMOO administrators, who will then send me userids and passwords for each of you. Once you logon to OldPuebloMOO, you'll be able to change both userid and password.
4) Join TAPPED IN, a MOO built for educational professionals.
Go to TAPPED IN and follow the directions for becoming a member. We'll practice MOOving around MOOs on OldPuebloMOO. Eventually, you will also be able to negotiate the TAPPED IN MOO, which has a slightly different graphical user interface and slightly different command syntax. Some of your research will be based on TAPPED IN's archives and tech discussions.
5) Join the Digital Divide email discussion list.
Go to the Digital Divide Network and subscribe to the DigitalDivide Discussion list (see menu on left side of page). The Digital Divide Network is part of the Benton Foundation and an excellent resource on access, a critical focus of our investigations in EDUC603. Discussion on the list often involves K-12 issues.
first published: 19 january 2002
last revised: 19 january 2002
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