... part of George North's and Teacher Explorer Center's Web site at UNO
Authoring for the
World Wide Web
EDCI 4993-603, Spring 2001
4:30 to 7:15, Tuesdays
Syllabus -- visits.
This week's in class activities.
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.

Links to Explore -- Search the Web -- Live Video -- our Web Site -- WebX'ing

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Make a free donation of food to hungry people around the world.

Send your attendance eMail (every week)

Be sure you understand next week's assignment.

Journal at the end of class tonight.

View the text of our 1st vClass meeting.



In Class tonight:
  • Your self-evluation is due before Sunday, May 6, 9:00PM
  • We will meet for food and drinks at 4:30, Wednesday May 9 at Daiquiris and Company, 6301 Elysian Fields Ave., (504)283-9911. This will be our last class meeting.
  • In-class presentations of our projects tonight
  • Also, tonight ... we will continue working on the College's web.



  • House Keeping
  • How is your Web Site doing?
  • This week we will start considering our work on the College of Education Web
  • Each group should consider itself an independent contractor!
  • In groups ... compare our College's WebSite to some others.
  • Each group accepts responsibility for one part of the College's website, for example: C&I, Special Ed., the College.
  • Each group will create a map their part of the College's web.
  • How can you tell when you browse to a page outside the scope of a website?
  • Groups will discuss how our work together in the next few weeks can improve our college's web?
  • How do I contribute to my web site -- FTP
  • For Windows -- Download and install WS_FTP
  • For Mac -- ask George for help?
  • Some Useful links -- web writing spaces
    1. Microsoft Publisher or Print Shop Pro Publisher ($25)
    2. Microsoft FrontPage and FrontPage Express
    3. Netscape Communicator (Composer) (free)!
    4. Web based tools like ExPage
    5. Adobe PageMill, Claris HomePage
    6. More info about Web Page editors.
    7. How to ... with comments about using frames
    8. More info than you need -- even an explanation of Cookies!
    9. Is your Domain Name taken?
    10. Expage, AngleFire, TriPod -- and other free web places
  • In case I was misleading about what makes web sites important (good design)
  • View Earth Live!
  • New Orleans Crime Maps
  • SuperDoppler 6000 LIVE Video
  • the MML live.
  • Cool Clock
  • There is a link to our Web Pages just next to the WebX'ing link
  • Our class is approved as EDCI 6105 ... do you want me to change your registration.
  • Life Magazine ceased publishing, but it lives on the web.
  • You can always see prior versions of our syllabus by following the link to "Prior Weeks"
  • What is a WebQuest anyway?


  • Groups:

  • We have groups! Group foreperson's name appears in green. Forepersons are responsible for ensuring order, otherwise group members are equals in all respects.
  • Ask George if you want to swap groups -- this is OK, but every group much have at least 3 members.
  • Give your group a name.

  • Group 1
    • Li Wang
    • Julie Bergeron
    • Pam Brierre
    • Samar Sarmini
  • Group 2
    • Charla Branch
    • Chip Farman
    • Cuco Le
    • Gail Silverstein
  • Group 3
    • John Charles
    • Tod McMahon
    • Barbara Saleem
    • Jan Catalano


  • Some 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.

    Three 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.
  • Don't worry
  • You will learn
  • I wont leave your side


  • Prior Dates Description
    January 16 Getting ready to Author, first class.
    January 23 Getting ready to Author, beginning to understand the web.
    January 30 Documents and the World Wide Web.
    February 6 Trying to find "Strategies for building websites"
    February 13 Field trip to Loyola
    February 20 Trying to find "Strategies for building websites"
    February 28 Mardi Gras, no class
    March 6 Book Reviews, more webTrying
    March 13 ... our Web sites
    March 20 Cabrini Field Trip
    March 27 starting on our College's Web Site, finishing our final projects
    April 3 vClass Meeting - good job
    April 10 Spring Break
    April 17 College of Ed Web Site - making progress
    April 24 College of Ed Web Site - making progress

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