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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.
Field trip to Loyola University, February 13th, thanks Todd!
Field Trip to Cabrini High School, thanks Helene Tucker, March 20th, Helene is Teacher and Chairperson of Social Studies Department, a farmer student, and holds a Masters Degree in Curriculum & Instruction
Let's try to finalize our field trips. Talk to George if you want to volunteer your school as host of a field trip.
In Class tonight:
Assignment for next week: What I didn't know about WebQuests
Turn in before Sunday, 4:00 PM
Post your assignment to our discussion board before 4:00 PM, Sunday, February 11
Don't forget that our class next week (Wednesday, February 13 will meet at Loyola University.
House Keeping
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.
About Web Pages and Web Sites
Lets look at HTML. Why?
Don't use spaces or other special characters when naming web pages
Every web page name MUST end in .html or .htm
JPG and GIF are the most common graphic formats used on web pages (.jpg and .gif)
Documents -- are the artifacts of an educational system.
The World Wide Web is the first new great Writing Space since the development of the printing press.
Tell me about the difference between documents created by Word Processors and documents created for the Web.
Web Pages, by design, disconnect content and display of content?
With XML, it is possible to disconnect semantics from content -- looking to the future!
Web Pages and Web Sites?
Links to other web pages, graphics, and other recourses.
Relative & Absolute links.
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"
Everyone will make a discussion group (in Us) for themselves. This is where book reviews will be posted.
All of us now have private FTP access to the College of Education's Web Server. This includes space to set up your web sites -- in other words, your very own URL. See the index page for our class. It points to each of your URLs, home page? Who can tell me what is the URL of our index page? Who can tell me what is the URL to their own web page? Who can tell me how to start editing this existing (but way Too Simple) Web Page?
All of us now have the beginnings of a Web Site -- its not much YET!
What is a WebQuest anyway?
When sending mail to iceCap, to George, or to anyone in our class ... sign your eMail (type your name at bottom or top of every message) because it is not always obvious from your eMail address who you are. Attachments are OK, so long as they are NOT the main text of your message. Keep in mind that not everyone will be able to receive your attachment and/or open it.
This "House Keeping" section of our syllabus will contain information that may not be mentioned during class. But, you are still responsible for knowing and acting on the information here. This is true even if you missed class.
In fact, if you do miss class, you are still responsible for every thing on this weekly syllabus, especially the assignment for next week.
Every class will start with Questions -- your questions. Show me that you are interested in our class by being prepaired to ask questions, questions about our class, about computers, about any old thing. Don't make me feel silly at the beginning of class -- when I say "any questions?" -- and all I hear is "the sounds of silence."
You are expected to keep up with not just your weekly assignments, but that of all your classmates. All assignments will be available to everyone vie eMail or our Discussion Board.
Top Ten Events in the modern history of computing!
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
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