Syllabus

... part of George Norht's and Teacher Explorer Center's Web site at UNO ... Updated: February 8, 1999

WWW Site Development for Educators

EDCI 4993, Spring 1999
4:30 to 7:15, Mondays

Syllabus
and in class activities for February 8.

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.

Home Pages -- Links to Explore -- Search the Web -- more than

visits.

Important Dates	\| Top \| Texts and Resources \| Course Description \| Objectives \|
	\| Evaluation \| Grading \| Who is George North \| Class Web Pages \|

Date	Description
Prior Weeks	11 class meetings left, not counting this one.

This Week Monday, February 8 Monday, February 8 Monday, February 8 Monday, February 8 Monday, February 8 Monday, February 8 Monday, February 8 Monday, February 8 Monday, February 8 Monday, February 8 Monday, February 8 Monday, February 8 Monday, February 8 Monday, February 8 Back to the Top	Tonight, we will discuss your Individual WWW site projects. We will review various strategies for building web pages. How many can you list? Tonight, we will begin planning for our group project. There are four departments in the College of Education -- HPHP (Human Performance & Health Promotion) just completed rebuilding their own web site ... so we may not need to do much work there. EDFR (Educational Leadership, Counseling, and Foundations) does not even have an old web site, so lots of work to do there. EDSP (Special Education and Habilitative Services) is being worked on, so we will need to coordinate our work with theirs. EDCI (Curriculum and Instruction) ... well I want you opinion on this site??? We need to begin planing this work. Counting the college itself and its four departments, that's five major components of this web site. One task is to contact each of the department heads and the dean to obtain guidence in doing this work. We should go into these meetings with a grocery list of what we feel should be part of their web site. What basic information is important to a College of Education web site? You should already have some ideas about this. I want your ideas. House Keeping The university requires that I take roll tonight ... are you here? I'm still missing e-Mail addresses I'm missing one student picture to complete our class web site? Things to keep in mind ... Unlike tradition documents, web pages are almost never finished. Web sites are the same. We can say that a web site is ALWAYS under construction. One feature of a web page is its ability to display itself on any computer. Another feature ... most web pages are editable by anyone, turning the document into you own ... this is called reuse (note: you need special access, like FTP, to change an original document). Web pages are 100% constructed of plain text. If this is true, where do the picture come from? The internet lets us transport web pages around the world in the blink of an eye. The editability, displayability, and transportability of web pages makes them unique ... no other document format comes close. If you are waiting for me to teach you how to build a web page ... STOP. We all build documents ... all the time. Building a web page is not different ... and is different. I am an encyclopedia for web site development. It is just as important to know what questions to ask as it is to know the answers. You job is to know what questions ask ... and from every indication, everyone is fast getting to the "How do I ...?" point ... soon you will be able to ask each other the "How do I ...?" question. And ... when you start answering others questions about web pages ... you will know you are a webmaster. What is the difference between information and entertainment? Assignment Due by 4:30, Sunday February 14 & 21: Respond to the following by sending e-Mail to Emmit. Where were you for Endymion? Did you visit any Mardi Graw web sites? What's the URL? Every week Bring a floppy disk to class. Add a link to your class web page ... this is how I keep attendance information. Ask if you don't know your password.
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Friday, February 82	Abraham Lincoln's Birthday.
Saturday, February 83	Mardi Gras Holiday.
Sunday, February 84	Valentine's Day.
Monday, February 85	Mardi Gras Holiday.
Tuesday, February 86	Mardi Gras Holiday.
Wednesday, February 87	Mardi Gras Holiday.
Monday, February 22	TBA
Wednesday, February 25	Final date for 25% refund.
Monday, March 1	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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Tuesday, March 2	Mid-semester examinations.
Wednesday, March 3	Mid-semester examinations.
Thursday, March 4	Mid-semester examinations.
Friday, March 5	Mid-semester examinations.
Monday, March 8	TBA
Monday, March 15	TBA
Tuesday, March 16	Final drop date.
Wednesday, March 17	St. Patrick's Day
Monday, March 22	TBA
Tuesday, March 23	The anniversary of my wedding, visit my wife's web page.
Monday, March 29	Spring Break ... Holiday
Tuesday, March 30	Spring Break ... Holiday
Wednesday, March 31	Spring Break ... Holiday
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Thursday, April 1	Spring Break ... Holiday Passover Begins.
Friday, April 2	Spring Break ... Holiday
Saturday, April 3	Spring Break ... Holiday
Monday, April 5	Personal WWW Site Project due at beginning of class Registration for Summer and Fall begins.
Friday, April 2	Spring Break ... Holiday
Sunday, April 4	Easter Sunday Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death
Wednesday, April 11	Passover Ends.
Monday, April 12	TBA
Friday, April 9	My son Barret's birthday.
Monday, April 19	TBA
Monday, April 26	Final self-evaluations due
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Monday, May 3	Our final exam is a university requirement. Final Exams.
Tuesday, May 4	Final Exams
Wednesday, May 5	Final Exams
Thursday, May 6	Final Exams
Friday, May 7	Final Exams
Saturday, May 8 and thereafter	Freedom and justice for all!
Saturday, May 14	COMMENCEMENT (7:00 PM) Intersession 1999 - classes begins (super-mini session)
Wednesday, June 2	Intersession 1999 - classes end
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Prior Weeks
Final date to change from credit to audit.

Prior Dates	Description
Thursday, January 7	Eastern Orthodox Christmas
Monday, January 11	Old Syllabus
Monday, January 18	Martin Luther King's Birthday - Holiday.
Monday, January 25	Old Syllabus
Friday, January 29	Final date to drop courses and not have them recorded .. and receive a refund of fees.
Monday, February 1	Old Syllabus
Tuesday, February 2	Groundhog Day.
Monday, February 8	One page description of personal web site project is due at beginning of class. Final date for 50% refund.
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Texts & Resources	\| Top \| Important Dates \| Course Description \| Objectives \|
	\| Evaluation \| Grading \| Who is George North \| Class Web Pages \|

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.

Course Description	\| Top \| Important Dates \| Texts & Resources \| Objectives \|
	\| Evaluation \| Grading \| Who is George North \| Class Web Pages \|

Prerequisites:

Knowledgeable in the use of computers

An e-mail address

Good work ethic

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://www.ss.uno.edu/homePages/SocStuHP.html. 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:

provide educators with access to abundant resources;

provide students with new ways to participate in knowledge creation;

provide simultaneous access to information and publishing;

bring us closer to the goal of Universal Education;

empower students, decreasing the roll of teachers as purveyors of knowledge;

make teachers and students partners in learning;

join together teachers, students, parents, and community members;

build Communities of Learners in a single location (the classroom);

join learning scenarios with abundant resources;

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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	\| Evaluation \| Grading \| Who is George North \| Class Web Pages \|

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:

To develop the vocabulary needed to understand the terminology found in web site development.
To improve competency in identifying appropriate uses of WWW in their classroom.
To improve conceptual understanding of all the skills and technologies needed to operate a WWW server.
To improve the computer skills needed to aid in classroom management.
To build the skills needed to teach other educators about WWW site development.
To demonstrate competency in a broad range of the above skills.

Evaluation	\| Top \| Important Dates \| Texts & Resources \| Course Description \|
	\| Objectives \| Grading \| Who is George North \| Class Web Pages \|

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.

30 points - Individual WWW site project -- Build a personal WWW site

------------ Mid-semester exam -- "Demonstrate personal web site progress"

40 points - Group semester project: rebuild College of Education WWW site.

------------ Final exam -- "In class presentation"

20 points - Participation -- attendance and contributions to in class activities.

20 points - Emmit -- Weekly written assignments posted to our list server.

Final grade will be based in large on student's self-evaluation. Remember, evaluations are due at the beginning of our last class -- Monday April 26, 4:30 PM.

Grading	\| Top \| Important Dates \| Texts & Resources \| Course Description \|
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A = 90 - 100 points

B = 80 - 89

C = 70 - 79

etc.

Who is George North	\| Top \| Important Dates \| Texts & Resources \| Course Description \|
	\| Objectives \| Evaluation \| Grading \| Class Web Pages \|

Today, I am a student in the Ph.D. program, 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
E-mail: gnorth@mac.com
Web Site: http://georgenorth.net/~george/georgeHome.php
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Monday: 7:15 - 8:15 PM
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