Syllabus

... part of George Norht's and Teacher Explorer Center's Web site at UNO ... Updated: March 1, 1999

WWW Site Development for Educators

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

Syllabus
and in class activities for March 1.

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	8 class meetings left, not counting this one.

This Week Monday, March 1 Monday, March 1 Monday, March 1 Monday, March 1 Monday, March 1 Monday, March 1 Monday, March 1 Monday, March 1 Monday, March 1 Monday, March 1 Monday, March 1 Back to the Top	IMPORTANT -- Mid-term examination: Take your on-line exam now. Please check the Links to Explore. These are taken from the responses to last weeks written assignment. What are the common themes discussed by our classmates in these messages about designing web sites? Plus ... everyone will present to the class a 5 minute maximum discussion on the progress of their Individual WWW site project. Your presentation should address two major themes: process and product. In process, you will discuss the events of the past 7 weeks (5 class meeting). Tell us a story of what happened when to you while working toward building your individual WWW site. You may exclude (or include) the personal events in your life. Tell us what went right and what went wrong. In product, you should discuss the major themes of your wed site, your target audiance, and the purposes of your web site. Most important, tell us in your own words how your web site satisfies its purposes, attracts it target audiance and portrays its major themes. Don't be nervous, this is NOT a graded exercise. Be reflective, say what you think. Be honest. There are no wrong answers. 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 Kathy White UNDER CONSTRUCTION ... I guess it will just have to remain under construction ... I'm out of time! In class tonight ... Project groups need to begin working on their respective web sites! Each group will give a very short presentation before the end of class. Betty Avery sent notice to me that, because of time problems, she needed to resign for our class. Assignment Due by 4:30, -- no written assignment this week, unless I change my mind and e-Mail one during the week 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.
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	... building UNO's College of Education's Web site
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.
Monday, February 22	Old Syllabus
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	\| 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.

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	\| 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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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.

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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
Office Hours:
Monday: 3:30 - 4:30
Monday: 7:15 - 8:15 PM
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