Volume 7, Number 31
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5 August 2002 Vol. 7, No. 31
THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS
Building Virtual Communities | H.I.P. Pocket Change - U.S. Mint
Global Climate Change Research Explorer - Exploratorium
BUILDING VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES: LEARNING AND CHANGE IN CYBERSPACE
by K. Ann Renninger and Wesley Shumar, Editors
ISBN 0-521-78558-8
http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521785588
K. Ann Renninger, Professor of Education at Swarthmore
College, and Wesley Shumar, Assistant Professor of
Anthropology at Drexel University, are the editors of this
volume published by Cambridge University Press in the series
"Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive, and Computational
Perspectives." Renninger and Shumar have researched The Math
Forum and other online communities since 1992.
Building Virtual Communities examines how learning and
cognitive change are fostered by online communities.
Contributors to the volume explore this question by drawing
on their different theoretical backgrounds, methodologies,
and personal experience with virtual communities. Each chapter
discusses the different meanings of the terms community,
learning, and change.
Case studies are included for further clarification. Together,
these chapters describe the building out of virtual
communities in terms that are relevant to theorists,
researchers, and practitioners. The chapters provide a basis
for thinking about the dynamics of Internet community building.
Available at Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521785588/themathforum/
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HISTORY IN YOUR POCKET (H.I.P.) POCKET CHANGE - U.S. Mint
http://www.usmint.gov/kids/
The History In Your Pocket (H.I.P.) Pocket Change site
showcases the connection between this country's coins and
its people. Through games, stories, and other engaging
activities, the site highlights both the individuals who
appear on U.S. coinage and the generations of citizens who
have used pocket change.
- Games
- Cartoons
- Time Machine
- Coin News
- Camp Coin
In addition, the H.I.P. Pocket Change site is designed
to build an online educational community, Teachers' Network,
that will help teachers share ways they use coins in the
classroom.
http://www.usmint.gov/kids/index.cfm?Filecontents=/kids/teachers/index.cfm
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GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH EXPLORER - Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/index.html
Explore scientific data about the atmosphere, the oceans, the
areas covered by ice and snow, and the living organisms in
all these domains. Get a sense of how scientists study natural
phenomena, how researchers gather evidence, test theories, and
come to conclusions.
Study the
- atmosphere
- hydrosphere
- cryosphere
- biosphere
- global effects
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