Michael Day's "Critical Thinking and The Internet"

Workshop Links

Critical Thinking and the Internet 
Traveling Workshops
The Collaboration
Michael Day

 
These are Internet-related links to accompany Michael Day's portion of the faculty development workshop entitled Critical Thinking and The Internet: A Hands-On Workshop for Exploring On-Line Modes of Teaching, Learning, & Research This workshop is one of several Traveling Workshops sponsored by the The Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Clueless about Internet terms? Check out the Glossary of Internet Terms

Introductory links
Text of Cynthia Selfe's 1998 College Conference on Composition and Communication address
Text of "The Internet Produces a Global Village of Village Idiots" by Richard John Neuhaus
Cartoon: "On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog"

Web pages to evaluate (from M.Day's Web Evaluation Exercise)

A misleading page on diversity
The home page of the group sponsoring the page on diversity
Alien Abductions Page!
Buddhist Page
Your Yucky Gross and Cool Body Page
Keith Stanger's Example Sites

Web evaluation rubrics and hints

Roger Easson's Web Evaluation Resources Page
Bedford St.Martins' tutorial on web page evaluation
Widener University's checklist for evaluating web pages
Keith Stanger's Criteria for Evaluating Internet Resources


Connecting to outside discussion groups
 
An older, but short version of M. Day's "Tapping the Living Database" exercise
A newer, complete version of M. Day's "Tapping the Living Database" article from The Dialogic Classroom (1998)

Finding Internet Discussion Groups

Both resources below are searchable!
The List of Lists
The Complete Reference to Usenet Newsgroups Listings

Sample discussion group posts

A sample post from the TechRhet Discussion Group
A sample post from M. Day's literature class discussion group

Class Discussion Group Resources

Community in Online Discussion Groups
WebLog Resources
HyperNews
Yahoogroups
Listproc
Majordomo
O'Reilly WebBoard

Synchronous Chat Resources

Daedalus Interchange
Internet Relay Chat
MUDs and MOOs
The Palace
Download tkmoo-light
Download MacMoose

Synchronous Chat Articles
 
Michael Day's Coverweb on teaching in MOOs from Kairos
The Networked Writing Classroom: The ENFI Idea
Creating a Virtual Academic Community: Scholarship and Community in Wide Area Multiple-User Synchronous Discussions
Fear and Loathing in Paradise: Making use of Dissensus, Disorientation, and Discouragement on the MOO
Traci Gardner's MOO Tips page
An Informal Rationale for Using Chats in the Composition Classroom

Educational MOOs

Diversity University
CollegeTown MOO
Connections MOO
DaMOO at California State University, Northridge

Michael Day's keynote addresses from the first three virtual conferences of the Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning
Teaching and Learning in Cyberspace: Balance, Interaction, and Critical Internet Literacy (November 1998)
Teachers at the Crossroads: Evaluating Teaching in New Electronic Environments (April 1999)
Critical Thinking and The Internet (April 2001)

Look for more resources under Webbed Publications and Projects on Michael Day's home page

Send mail to Michael Day

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