| WWW Site Development for Educators |
EDCI 4993-604, Fall 1999 4:30 to 7:15, Wednesdays |
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Syllabus and in class activities for October 27. | 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. |
| Important Dates | | eMail -- | George | Emma | Attendance | Check Your Mail | |
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| Prior Weeks | 6 class meetings left -- not counting this one! |
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Questions? House Keeping This week Group Project Teams Assignment Due by 4:30, Sunday October 31: eMail Emma a brief description of what was done this past week on your personal web site project. Include in your message what if any files were FTP'ed to our Web Server. Turn you clocks back 1 hour -- we're off daylight savings time. |
| 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. |
| Wednesday, November 10 | TBA |
| Monday, November 15 | My Father's Birthday, visit his Web SIte |
| Wednesday, November 17 | TBA |
| 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 |
| Friday, December 3 | Last day of regular classes |
| Monday, December 6 | Final Exams |
| Tuesday, December 7 | Final Exam Guess |
| 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 |
| Wednesday, August 25 | see Old Syllabus |
| Wednesday, September 1 | see Old Syllabus |
| Monday, September 6 | Labor Day |
| Wednesday, September 8 | see Old Syllabus |
| 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 | see Old Syllabus |
| Monday, September 20 | Yom Kippur Final date to resign and get 50% refund. |
| Wednesday, September 22 | see Old Syllabus |
| Monday, September 27 | My son Denny's birthday, visit his web site |
| Monday, October 4 | Final date to resign and get a 25% refund. |
| Wednesday, September 29 | see Old Syllabus |
| Wednesday, October 6 | see Old Syllabus |
| 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 | see Old Syllabus |
| Thursday, October 14 | Mid-semester examination period |
| Friday, October 15 | Mid-semester examination period |
| Wednesday, October 20 | John Dewey's Birthday |
| Monday, October 25 | Final Drop Date? |
| Texts & Resources | | Top | Important Dates | Course Description | Objectives | |
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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 page 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.
| Course Description | | Top | Important Dates | Texts & Resources | Objectives | |
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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!
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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:
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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.
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Who is George North | | Top | Important Dates | Texts & Resources | Course Description | |
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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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