Bonnie Angel, a professor in the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing is one of the latter. For her, the beginning of the semester is the opportune time to introduce instructional technology. She takes advantage of the early enthusiasm by demonstrating for her new students how students in previous courses have used listservs and discussion forums. To let her students know what to expect, she takes themon a tour of the Internet on the first day of class. She discusses the course requirement for email addresses and recommendations for Internet access.
Students fill out a questionnaire assessing their access and familiarity with Internet technologies.
Stacey Sondecker, a student in the class, commended Angel's efforts. It was very refreshing for me to be in a class where the instructor knew how to work the classroom equipment and was ready to use it. Anticipating barriers . . . When Julie Straight, a graduate instructor in the English Department at UNC-Chapel Hill, decided to use the Internet in her English 11 courses this semester, she knew that she would have some special challenges in managing the expectations of both herself and her students in the use of the technology. She had used Internet technologies in her course previously but had been disappointed in the results.