2. 1. Communication
Students can set up keypals (email pen
pals). Students can communicate with
experts in various fields via e-mail.
Students can also communicate in real-time
through online conferencing by means of
Audio and Video conferencing and through
chat rooms.
3. 2. Collaboration
Collaborative projects communication.
Students might work with expedition
teams, solve problems by collecting or
exchanging information, and create and
respond to questions. Examples of these
were web quests.
4. 3. Research
Internet could be a great tool in making
research papers as it enables students to
gather detailed information that might
otherwise be difficult to find.
Students could easily do their assignments
and search on the needed information in
the internet by using different search
engines.
5. 4. Real-time data collection
Students can engage in real-time data
collection in ways that were once impossible.
They can collect scientific data updated
continuously by scientists at work, thereby
using the same methods as researchers and
scientists, analyzing the same data and
sharing their conclusions either on- or off-line.
When real-time data is used, students see the
relationship between their studies and the real
world.
6. 5. Shopping
Internet is a best resource of materials for
education. It is usually easier to buy
educational items on the internet that are
hard to find in stores.
7. 6. Streaming video
Some ways that streaming video is
already being used are:
- Educational Videos
- Online Science Experiments
- Virtual Field Trips
8. 7. Distance Learning
For those too far away from schools or
universities, too busy helping out at home
to attend school on a regular basis, or too
poor to pay tuition, distance learning has
proven to be an attractive alternative.
The Internet constitutes a virtual classroom
in which intense interactivity and the
sharing of resources and information
constitutes its essence.