Syllabus

... part of George Norht's and Teacher Explorer Center's Web site at UNO ... Updated: February 22, 1999

WWW Site Development for Educators

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

Syllabus
and in class activities for February 22.

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.

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Date	Description
Prior Weeks	9 class meetings left, not counting this one.

This Week Monday, Feb 22 Monday, Feb 22 Monday, Feb 22 Monday, Feb 22 Monday, Feb 22 Monday, Feb 22 Monday, Feb 22 Monday, Feb 22 Monday, Feb 22 Monday, Feb 22 Monday, Feb 22 Monday, Feb 22 Monday, Feb 22 Back to the Top	IMPORTANT -- Next week is mid-term exam week. Everyone is expected to make a brief (5 minute) presentation about the progress of their Individual WWW site project. After tonight, we will meet 4 more times before your WWW site project is due! House Keeping I find it difficult to accept that we have met only 4 times ... and its already midterm ... I want your openions about where we are ... where we need to go? How many pages make up a good web site? (be careful, this is a trick question) What about FTP? Use MS Word or other word processors to start your web pages!. Semester Project Groups College of Education Charlene Hebert Jennifer Spiritas Brooks Trotter Freddy Waguespack Curriculum & Instruction Maurice Valerio Mary Armit Michele Bache Luanne Caballero Special Education Anthony Aramburo Peter Jude Fagan Vielka Barnett Catherine McCann Leadership, Counseling, and Foundations Carla DiStefano Dan Wexler Betty Avery Kathy White In class tonight ... We will breakup into our project groups Appoint someone to take notes Each group will give a 5 minute presentation of their findings before the end of class. Group meetings will be divided equally between ... 1. planning the work for your group project 2. reviewing/critiquing progress on each group member's Individual WWW site project Discussions concerning your group project should focus on what design consideration are important when building a web site for a college of education. You should consider: content (text and graphic), page layout, site navigation, links to other web sites, and --- What else is important? When making your report to our class, your suggestions should be as concrete as possible ... showing sites that illustrate your points is recommended. Discussions concerning individual WWW site projects should focus on helpful feedback. Some of you are already well along in constructing your web site, others not so. Regardless of current progress, your group should give equal time to each member's web site. Take notes during this discussion too. When talking about your own work, don't be afraid to say "I don't know how to ______" or/and ask for "Help" More than once, I will join each group's discussions, you might want to make a list of question to ask me? Assignment Due by 4:30, Sunday February 28: Respond to the following by sending e-Mail to Emmit. Using your personal experience, and from your discussion with the members of your project group ... list two web page design elements that you consider important to building a web site for UNO's college of education. Include a link to an existing college of education web site that illustrates each design element. In your own works, and from your own experience, explain the importance of each design element. There are 16 teachers in our class, average response to Emmit assignments is 12. Responding to these assignments is an important part of your final grade. 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.
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

Prior Dates	Description
Monday, January 11	Old Syllabus
Monday, January 18	Martin Luther King's Birthday - Holiday.
Monday, January 25	Old Syllabus
Monday, February 1	Old Syllabus
Monday, February 8	Old Syllabus
Monday, February 15	Mardi Gras Holiday.
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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 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.

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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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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 \|
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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.

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.

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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 \|
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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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