... part of George Norht's
and Teacher Explorer Center's Web site at UNO
... Updated: August 17, 1999
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WWW Site Development for Educators
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EDCI 4993-604, Fall 1999
4:30 to 7:15, Wednesdays
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Syllabus
and in class activities for August 25.
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Why do you want to print this document?
It is linked to many other important documents --
your printed copy is linked to the death of trees.
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Links to Explore
-- Search the Web -- more than  visits.
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Description |
| Prior Weeks
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All the class meetings are still ahead of us -- not counting this one! |
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This Week
Wednesday, August 25
First Day of Class
Wednesday, August 25
Wednesday, August 25
Wednesday, August 25
Wednesday, August 25
Wednesday, August 25
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In Class: Complete your Class Web Page (get your picture taken).
Do you have an eMail address? If not, every UNO student can have a UNO eMail address.
Be sure you have access to eMail before our next class.
Read about Evaluation and
Self-evaluation.
Finished ... NOT ... Explore these links.
Some first class-meeting advice.
The idea of Authoring for the World Wide Web as the topic
of a college level course is to be understood in the context that this technology
is making information availability ubiquitous. The focus of this
class is to explore and practice publishing using the web in your own teaching.
It matters not if your classroom has no, one, or many computers.
Three things:
1. Gain access. If you don't already have a home computer, or you were thinking that you need to
upgrade your home computer, do it. How can you master weaving technology into
your curriculum if you can't practice it day in and day out yourself, at home,
for yourself?
2. Be patient. It takes time for new ideas and new tools to gain hold and have lasting and powerful
effects. Be patient ... with yourself, your collogues, and your students. Remember,
learning only takes place if we make mistakes.
3. Have a Purpose: Computers are not IT. This class is not about computers. It is about educators doing
what for hundreds of years we have always done -- integrate technology into pedagogy.
The topic tonight is Getting to Know You ...
and Getting our Feet Wet ...
House Keeping
Every week
Assignments
Who will be the first to ask me how our class will read the book
Growing Up Digital: the Rise of the Net Generation
Assignment: Due by 4:30, Sunday September 26:
Respond to the following by sending eMail to Emma. Who
will be the first to ask me how students in our class become members of our list, Emma.
What if we finish early? What is an Information Network?
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| Monday, August 30 |
TEL-A-Gator (TOPS) active for dropping courses |
| Wednesday, September 1 |
The World Wide Web, a global Information Network
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| Monday, September 6 |
Labor Day, no class |
| Wednesday, September 8 |
The World Wide Web, a global Information Network
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| Friday, September 10 |
Final date to drop courses or resign and not have courses recorded. |
| Saturday, September 11 |
Rosh HaShanah |
| Monday, September 13 |
Final date to change from credit to audit. |
| Wednesday, September 15 |
One page description of personal web site project is due at beginning of class.
Consider this your first draft. |
| Monday, September 20 |
Yom Kippur
Final date to resign and get 50% refund.
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| Wednesday, September 22 |
TBA |
| Monday, September 27 |
My son Denny's birthday, visit his web site
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| Wednesday, September 29 |
TBA |
| Monday, October 4 |
Final date to resign and get a 25% refund. |
| Wednesday, October 6 |
TBA |
| Thursday, October 7 |
Mid-semester break |
| Friday, October 8 |
Mid-semester break |
| Monday, October 11 |
Mid-semester examination period |
| Tuesday, October 12 |
Mid-semester examination period |
| Wednesday, October 13 |
Short presentation concerning the progress of your personal web site project.
This is your mid-term exam, check Evaluation for details.
Mid-semester examinations.
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| Wednesday, October 13 |
Mid-semester examination period |
| Thursday, October 14 |
Mid-semester examination period |
| Friday, October 15 |
Mid-semester examination period |
| Wednesday, October 20 |
TBA
John Dewey's Birthday
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| Monday, October 25 |
Final Drop Date? |
| Wednesday, October 27 |
TBA |
| Friday, October 29 |
My Wife's Birthday, visit her Web Site |
| Wednesday, November 3 |
TBA
Phase 1 Registration for 2000 Spring Semester begins.
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| Wednesday, November 10 |
TBA |
| Monday, November 15 |
My Father's Birthday, visit his Web SIte |
| Wednesday, November 17 |
TBA
My Father's Birthday, visit his Web SIte
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| Saturday, November 20 |
Last day of Saturday classes |
| Wednesday, November 24 |
TBA |
| Thursday, November 25 |
Thanksgiving |
| Wednesday, December 1 |
Our last regular class: Semester Project due at beginning of class (4:30 PM)
Self-evaluations due
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| Friday, December 3 |
Last day of regular classes |
| Monday, December 6 |
Final Exams |
| Tuesday, December 7 |
Final Exams
Guess
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| Wednesday, December 8 |
Our Final Exam: What will it be? |
| Thursday, December 9 |
Final Exams |
| Friday, December 10 |
Final Exams |
| Tuesday, December 14 |
Final grades available on TOPS |
| Prior Dates |
Description |
| NONE YET! |
look forward to very valuable information here |
Required reading for this class will be selected World Wide Web sites as indicated each week in the
syllabus. These will be found using the link at the top of this pages titled "Links to Explore."
From time to time we will mention and discuss
some of the available texts covering this topic. You are encouraged to bring to class any
books you find interesting and share these with the rest of us. Bring books and other recourses
to class is one way to satisfy the class participation requirement.
Prerequisites:
This course is intended to help educators acquire a working knowledge of electronic
Information Networks. Begun in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee,
the World Wide Web (WWW or W3) didn't appear in popular culture until after 1995. Today, web site addresses
seem to be everywhere. Do you really know what -- http://www.ed.uno.edu/index.html -- is?
We will discuss how teachers can use WWW sites in curricula development. Especially, we will attempt
to show how developing WWW sites themselves will make teachers more productive. There is a substantial
initial investment in building your own web sites, but once started, it will be easier for you and
"for others" to reuse your work. It may be "for others" is most significant. Not only do educators
directly benefit from their own work, they benefit from all the other educator built web sites.
One example of a great web site to link to you own site is: http://ed.uno.edu/.
This is the hyper linked part of WWW.
We will learn that the WWW is just one example of a hyper linked environment ... that the web is the best
known prototype of an information network. It is my expectation that you will come to
understand that no one benefits from information networks more than educators.
Most of this class will be conducted as a business, we will be web publishers. We will be planners,
copy writers, editors, graphic artists, and technologists. We will learn what is a web server, how to
build one, what is needed to start a web site from scratch. We will also discuss what are the future
WWW trends.
Information Networks:
The goal is learning -- taking place in a social context where knowledge is created from
information with action guided by pedagogy.
We will build information networks!
Helping educators develop the skills needed to build WWW sites for themselves (home pages), for
their classrooms, and for their schools are the foundation for the objectives of this class.
Students will be given the opportunity:
Please note that it is possible to earn more than 100 points.
Read carefully each of the six evaluation areas below.
Hint ... follow the links to details of each area.
Final grade will be based in large on student's self-evaluation.
Remember, evaluations are due at the beginning of our last class -- see important dates above for exact date.
Today, I am Ph.D. candidate in the College of Education,
Curriculum & Instruction. In my past life, for 30 years, I was a systems analyst,
programmer, Information Systems manager, and computer consultant. I earned a B.S. in
Liberal Arts from the University of the State of New York, and a M.S. in Computer
Science from the University of New Orleans. My goal is to teach at the college level ...
to help educators integrate Information networks into their daily lives as teachers and learners.
George North
Office: ED 308A
Phone: 280-6523
Home: 834-1891
eMail: gnorth@mac.com
Web Site: http://georgenorth.net/~george/georgeHome.php
Office Hours:
Monday: 3:30 - 4:30
Monday: 7:15 - 8:15 PM
Also by appointment
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Liberal Arts from the University of the State of New York, and a M.S. in Computer
Science from the University of New Orleans. My goal is to teach at the college level ...
to help educators integrate Information networks into their daily lives as teachers and learners.