Why Off-line Rather Than
On-line
- Sites change at a moment's notice - content
as well as address
- The Internet connection at your institution
or at the other end has just gone down
- Because your class time is also peak
Internet time, your connections are too slow or
the lines are busy
- Your school is not yet hooked up to the
Net
- The on-line computer lab is being used today
for a special presentation, but you can arrange
to get a computer on wheels into your room
- You can have total control over what the
students see (I do not advocate either
censorship or taking other people's work, but
there are conditions that may merit - and permit
- one form or another of either)
How to Re-create a Site Off-line
- Visit the site and get the names of the
pages you would like to reproduce
- Look at the source code to make sure that
there are no perl- or cgi-scripts
- Contact the page author or
webmaster/mistress/madam; explain your
situation; ask for permission to copy pages and
all related files (graphics, sound, etc.)
- Make sure you have sufficient disk space to
store all of the related files (on a disk, on
your hard drive, or on your school's
server)
- After you receive permission from the
copyright holder, copy the home page and all
related files and links (You can do this one by
one or you can use a site copying program like
WebWhacker or TPP)
How to Run Your Browswer Off-line
- (Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Explorer
)
- In Windows, open Winsock (don't connect ),
then run your Web browser OR in Mac, run your
Web browser
- When you get the "can't connect" message,
click okay (Hot Tip: If you pre-set the
browser to open with a blank page -- in
Netscape, under Options, highlight
General Preferences, and then select
Blank Page -- it will not try to make a
connection, and you can avoid having the
students think that they made a mistake)
- Under File, pull down the menu and
hilight Open File in Browser
- In the new window, double-click on
[the-location-of-the-home-page]
- In the new window, double-click on
[the-home-page.htm]
- The home page should open and run just as if
you are on-line (providing that you have
included all of the pages and graphics, etc.
that the home page links to).
Other Uses For Off-line Webbing
- free custom-designed (by you) software.
Browswers are free and html (the language needed
to write the code) is not very difficult if you
want to do some simple things like
self-correcting exercises (to do more complex
things, there are free html editors available
for the downloading)
- make hyper-text handouts that students can
access from a main server or in-class
computer
Levels of coding complexity (from easiest to
most difficult)
- self-generating quiz generators (you don't
have to see any code if you don't want to)
- In Office97 for PC and Office98 Mac, (no
code to look at here either)
- Under File, pull down the menu and
hilight New
- In the new document, type your text
- Under File, pull down the menu and
hilight Save as html (your document
will now be web-ready
- Open your file in Netscape to see it
- templates (cut & paste your own content,
but you will have to look at some coding)
- learn html code and java script (and go back
to the days of programming)
Have fun! Got any other ideas?? Let me
know!
This month's tip was submitted by
Dr.
Sheryl Beller-Kenner. To
submit a tip, please send
tip to Dr. Sheryl
Beller-Kenner.
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