... 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 Important Dates eMail :: | George | iceCap | Attendance | Check Your Mail | Prior Weeks | Top | Texts and Resources | Course Description | Objectives | | Evaluation | Grading | Who is George North | Class Web Pages | Date What's going on! This Week Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Back to Top Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Back to Top Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Back to Top Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Back to Top Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Tuesday, February 20 Back to Top 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, this past week -- click the picture!. See the Movie he made for us! Delayed AGAIN -- Charlene Hebert, a 7th grade Science teacher at Lusher Extension will join us in class at UNO. We will talk with her about her experiences authoring for the Web. Visit her web site. March 20, field Trip to Cabrini High School, thanks Helene Tucker. 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: More Than Half of Adults in U.S. Online, Study Says Did you read our discussions of "Copyright Law and Fair Use Guidelines" Let's talk a while about it a little. Can you assume that fair use guidelines apply to the information included on your web site? Tonight, we will develope strategies for building websites browsing and borrowing bookmarks as a web page Microsoft Word Adobe PageMill, Claris Home Page Netscape Composer -- a free WYSIWYG web page editor Editing text -- ExPage and others like it? Microsoft Publisher, and others like Print Shop Pro Microsoft FrontPage and FrontPage Express Some Useful links What happened last week at Loyola? using other web sites for Ideas, models, templates, graphics -- what about copyright? your word processor Microsoft Publisher or Print Shop Pro Publisher ($25) Microsoft FrontPage and FrontPage Express Netscape Communicator (Composer) (free)! Web based tools like ExPage Adobe PageMill, Claris HomePage Dreamweaver Editing HTML, BBEdit (Mac only), More info about Web Page editors. How to ... with comments about using frames More info than you need -- even an explanation of Cookies! Is your Domain Name taken? Expage, AngleFire, TriPod -- and other free web places What about video on the web? How do I contribute to my web site -- FTP For Windows -- Download and install WS_FTP For Mac -- ask George for help? Finished ... NOT ... Explore these links. Assignment for the next 2 weeks: remember no class next Tuesday, Mardi Gras 1st Book Review Post your book review assignment to your own discussion board (remember US). Make sure you understand and follow the requirements for Book Reviews. Post your book review before 4:00 PM, Sunday, February 25. Everyone is responsible for reading everyone else's book reviews ... all of them. Before 4:00 PM on Sunday, March 4, everyone will comment on at least two (2) book review messages by using the -REPLY- button next to the message heading. Not sure how to do this is? Don't leave class tonight until you do. Ask for help! During in class discussions on Tuesday, March 6 ... be prepared to describe the book you read and to ask questions about books others have read. What is the copyright? Who is the author(s)? What do you know about him/her? Who is the audience for this book? Summarize for us the major topics. How does the book relate to the objectives of our class? Charactize for us how you "feel" about your book. What did you learn? What didn't you like? Be prepared to ask questions about all the other books reviewed. House Keeping 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. What is XML ... the semantic web 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" 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 prepared 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 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 Back to Top