... part of George Norht's and Teacher Explorer Center's Web site at UNO ... Updated: March 22, 1999
WWW Site Development for Educators EDCI 4993, Spring 1999
4:30 to 7:15, Mondays
Syllabus
and in class activities for March 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 3 class meetings left, not counting this one ... not counting spring break ... not counting our final exam.
This Week



Monday, March 22





Monday, March 22





Monday, March 22





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Monday, March 22





Back to the Top 		Assignment Due before our next class meeting -- in two week, Monday April 5 - your Individual WWW site project

Important: E-mail Emmit (before class on Monday, April 5) a few paragraphs that answer the following questions. How do you personally benefit form your Web site? Who is the primary audience for your web site? How do they benefit? Who are other potential audiences for your web site? How might they benefit? Tell a story about how the building of your web site progressed. What did you learn about the benefits or problems of web sites in education (not about building them)?

To turn in your final web site, it should be placed in your folder on the Web server. I expect that you will have FTP'ed it there -- and that you know how to FTP. For anyone who wishes, I will move your web site to a permanent position on the College of Ed web server ... where you will have private FTP access to it for some time to come. Its web address (URL) will be something like this: http://ed.uno.edu/sites/FLast/homepage.html ... where FLast is your initial and last name ... and then whatever is the name of your first page. I will also provide a link to your web site from a page on the Teacher Explorer Center. We can do this tonight, or whenever you would like.

This Week
  • Work continues on the College of Education web site project.
  • This is an on-going effort.


    • 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


    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.
    • 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
    Sunday, April 4 Easter Sunday

    Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death
    Monday, April 5 Personal WWW Site Project due at beginning of class

    Registration for Summer and Fall begins.

    Work continues on the College of Ed web project
    Wednesday, April 11 Passover Ends.
    Monday, April 12 Work continues on the College of Ed web project
    Friday, April 9 My son Barret's birthday.
    Monday, April 19 Work continues on the College of Ed web project
    Monday, April 26 Final self-evaluations due

    Work on the College of Ed web project is complete!

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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
    Wednesday, March 1 Old Syllabus
    Wednesday, March 8 Old Syllabus
    Wednesday, March 15 Old Syllabus

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    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 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 |
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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!




    Objectives | Top | Important Dates | Texts & Resources | Course Description |
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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.



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

  • 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
    Also by appointment


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