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WWW Site Development for Educators |
EDCI 4993-357, Summer 2000 12:40 to 3:35, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday |
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Syllabus -- In class activities for July 6. | 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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Make a free donation of food to hungry people around the world. Send your attendance eMail, remember to include your full name in the eMail message. Questions: anything and everything! The term "hypertext" was coined by Ted Nelson around 1965. About the same time Douglas Englebart was developing the NLS (oN-Line System), which he demonstrated in 1968 with working hyperlinks. The idea of interconnected text can be traced as least as far back at the 16th century to a device called a Rotating Reading Table. I call it an Information Network. No one benefits more from this development than we do -- educators. Our role is to validate content. We do this by build intellectual property. Except for today, through all of history, most all intellectual property owners were victims of discrimination. Today it is possible for every writer to be a publisher, for every reader to be a writer. It may even be possible to write while you read? These are all tools used to build a unique Writing Space. We call that space the World Wide Web. Some first class-meeting advice. The idea of Authoring for the World Wide Web as the topic of a college level course is to be understood in the context that this technology is making information availability ubiquitous. The focus of this class is to explore and practice publishing using the web in your own teaching. It matters not if your classroom has no, one, or many computers. Four things: 1. Gain access. If you don't already have a home computer, or you were thinking that you need to upgrade your home computer, do it. How can you master weaving technology into your curriculum if you can't practice it day in and day out yourself, at home, for yourself? 2. Be patient. It takes time for new ideas and new tools to gain hold and have lasting and powerful effects. Be patient ... with yourself, your collogues, and your students. Remember, learning only takes place if we make mistakes. 3. Have a Purpose: Computers are not IT. This class is not about computers. It is about educators doing what for hundreds of years we have always done -- integrate technology into pedagogy. 4. Ask for Help: I am not asking you to discover oil, invent the process to distill gasoline, then build a lawnmower. All I ask is that you cut the grass. Get help ... all the help you want. Ask classmates, friends ... ask your kids. In Class: The topic today is Getting to Know You ... and Getting our Feet Wet ... House Keeping Assignments Who will be the first to ask me how our class will read the book Growing Up Digital: the Rise of the Net Generation Assignment: Due by 9:00 AM, Sunday July 9: Respond to the following by sending eMail to Emma. A group without a name: Another group without a name: North's Dallas 40 Over Kill |
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