... part of George North's
and Teacher Explorer Center's Web site at UNO
WWW Site Development for Educators
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EDCI 4993-357, Summer 2000
12:40 to 3:35, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
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Syllabus -- visits.
In class activities for July 6.
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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.
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Links to Explore
-- Search the Web -- more than visits.
Required reading for this class will be selected World Wide Web sites as indicated 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.
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://ss.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!
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. These objectives are recommended by the Louisiana State Department of Education and are for Basic Endorsement in Educational Computing and Technology Literacy as published by the International Society for Technology in Education Standards (ISTE).
Students will be given the opportunity to:
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, self-evaluations are due at 9:00 AM of our last class -- Thursday, July 27, 2000.
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. Visit my VITA
George North
Office: ED 342w
Phone: 280-5557
Home: 834-1891
Cell: 957-5186
eMail: gnorth@mac.com
Web Site: http://georgenorth.net/~george/georgeHome.php
Office Hours:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 11:20 - 12:20
Also by appointment
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