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- Encourage academic excellence by encouraging departments and instructors to embrace a new and revolutionary technology each year.
- Converting course functions (a.k.a grading papers) to the computer can save time and prevent the waste of paper.
- Embracing technology in the classroom effectively "Ups Your Cool Factor"
- Instead of teaching taking a distinctive path from left to right, online collaboration allows for a web or netting structure that is far more inclusive. This change in the way things are done promotes progress in academia.
- There are technological complications in the classroom with the current system. By joining in on this system at the start, you'll have a say as to how the backbone will work.
- It's a lot easier to get up to date with technology when you start at the very beginning of a technological movement. Even if you can't do everything you want to do with the new system as it exists today, becoming accustomed to it will allow you to acclimatize to the desired tools when they roll out.
- When many students come to your class with different backgrounds, you can use Sakai tools (modules/lessons/wiki/discussion board/breeze) to assign the appropriate tutorials to the appropriate students, thus bringing everyone up to the same level of expertise.
- Sakai allows instructors to add "modules" to their course Web site that students can then access. Modules allow professors to connect their students to other various worksites view the buttons on the left.
- Andy Jones is developing a module off the Academic Integrity Project (cai.ucdavis.edu/aip.html) as a means to inform students about plagiarism.
- If we show people good worksites, we should also mention that they can easily see the code and take it for their own uses.