Make sure you use the technicians or lab support if you need help.  

We are going to do more hands on in class, and the information will be read at home.

Last weeks main assignment was to modify the notebookonline.htm, noteswk1.htm and diarywk1.htm

Navigator click on links and make them work.  Other aspect is composer this is how you make changes.  Navigator is a reader only. Composer is the word processor where we do our editing.  Video tape isan example this is our vcr player. 

How do you go to look at files on the A drive? File open chose files and look for files on A drive.

Get to his files have to put in a web address.  How does he get us a web file.

Need to have folder on floppy diskette and move them into that folder. How do I organize info on a computer environment.

We explored an A drive and put our documents in a folder called web.

Program called WSTP need for this class.  Telnet program WinQvt need by next week.  Go to web site and get this program.  Program calledFetch for macintosh

http://www.wcu.edu/cc/OnlineRes/index.html

Win 95/98;  stick it in programs folders need wsftp; do it on computer that you are going to do your homework and you need a telnet client.  down load from above web site.  227-7284 computer help line. plan B.  These are shareware products.  www.download.com have lots of programs that you can have them free.  For now we have a shortcut.        

The advantage of using these programs is the computer center can support them.       

Better is not bigger especially in computer software.  Once this is installed at home you can go to programs then WSFTP will be there. On UNCA campus using NETterm if your working on a campus computer. Same thing as QVTat home. 

Wait time needs to be longer than 2 seconds.  At 6000 that more interesting things happen.  Go 1000, 2000, 3000 and so on.

File transfer programs was the old internet, and now we are just coming up with a more sophisticated version of it.

see if we can get into the vax account.

phone directory click on wcu-(ack.wcu.edu)

bottom of screen connect.

two web sites Geocities;  www.geocities.com

Establishing web site geocities

Went to geocities my web address is http://www.geocities.com/de21849

wsftp95le clicking and starting up program go to ftp.geocities.com Usr input in de21849; then put in your password. then click summit hourglass left is a drive right is web site.  click on A drive see web folderclick right arrow button.  if it closes on you just reconnect. go to web site and see if it will bring that file up.  Create relative addressing  knows that it all fits in this.

Before next week print out the map.

    I believe that part of being a teacher willing toprovide differentiated instruction is the web work.  In a sense, a teacher is providing work for a student who is ahead of the class but in this sensetechnologically speaking.  If the whole class were on reading level 4,and you had one student on reading level 10 is it appropriate to keep thatstudent reading on a lower level just because the other students are?  I would say no it is the teachers job to modify the curriculum to meet allher or his students needs.  Therefore a student with a computer at homemay have different needs then one without.  I feel it is unfortunate that more children do not have computers at home, but I believe as technology becomes smaller and less expensive it is a trend that we will see more of.  I am sure that when the teacher's who gave their students small chalkboards to write on in order to record homework information saw the invention of paper they probably had no idea that paper would become a staple part of their lives.  I believe the answer to the second question is of course computers affectreading and writing because composition is less stagnation the computer andstudents now have ability to revise and edit in whole new ways.  Studentsalso have the opportunity to read more about more specialized areas becauseof the global library the internet provides.  It would not be inconceivablethat the student of the future has to store everything on a hand held deviceor a keyboard with a tiny screen.  I think though that the health ramificationsof the computer age will be one of the obstacles because there are a lot ofhealth concerns that will arrive sooner like carpal tunnel syndrome and possibleside effects of long term computer use in the sense of fatigue and other areas.  What are the health implications when we become a computer age world, andhow will this effect our world?  Even exercise questions can come up because the web is addictive in its own way.  Will our students be so drawn to the endless information that they are not participating in theirlives?

Web is perceived as a messy encyclopedia, a giant bulletin board, or a partial composition waiting for the composer to make their mark.  The first step is setting up your text, grading criteria, assignment due dates.  I have the option to add extra pages, but for now it is important to keepthe assigned structure so it is easy to evaluate.  Step one study thestory board or site map.  Then I will be studying the new unit plan template.  This is the template I will be using this semester.  The next step isto read the multimedia policy.  The technical work involves doing thethree step introduction to web design.  Web construction is done withthree major steps plan, create, and publish.  This activity makes website operational.  Finally skim section seven of the teacher technology competencies on Multimedia integration and note which ones apply.  Thenext step is to begin to modify your unit plan template.  Only required change is actual title and some basic details and uploading into web sites.  Don't forget to send data to Web Author's Database.  Answer questions Is it appropriate or worthwhile for administrators and teachers to develop web pages for those you teach when not everyone can see these web pages at home?  How significant a place in the curriculum should web composition have for the teaching of reading and writing in years ahead?  Hopefully, this chapter and these starter questions will stimulate more for you in online notes.

  I can see how with discipline and homework intervention plans having a daily communication with a parent might be useful through email.  If you send the work home to be signed there is no guarantee that the paperworkwould get signed by the parent.  Many times the child is the one thatsigns the paperwork.  I think if you were going to implement emailing back in forth for safety sake I would do a telephone call to the parents firstand find out if this is a comfortable way for the two of you to interact.  I think one of the main concerns as teachers that has to be addressed willbe our parents sensitivities to technology.  Email that is saved backand forth definitely gives a paper trail for you could simply save the filein a folder called parent contact maybe put those emails into a spreadsheetand then boom you have when and why you contacted right there.  I feelthat email is less scary than a telephone call because the dangers of thephone are that conversations can become lengthy and parents may end up wantingto voice other opinions and things from what is said.  Email providesa very concise way to communicate to parents and then if a phone call followup is necessary that can happen but may save the teacher from having to callthirty parents when one email message may take care of 15 of them.  Ifeel like this would be a good way to communicate newsletters and other importantinformation about what the class is involved in.  I feel like the communityhas to change the way they look at teachers because without good teachersthe students coming into the work force are going to be unable to deal witha technological world especially if computers are not in the home and theonly way students may get to computers is through school.  I think withany new knowledge workers in any profession expand and become more capable.  It is through diversity and problem solving that our ever changing societyin some ways weeds out those without skill and discriminates them into positionsof poverty.  It is going to be very important to our health as a societyand a nation to give all children the opportunity to be fluent in their worldthat they are encountering therefore if web publishing is the means of communicationin the future it is our responsibility to provide them with that.  Ifwe gave carpenters the wrong equations to build our cabinets the cabinetswould not fit.  I do not want our children to feel this way.  Howam I as a teacher going to provide equations I do not know yet?

    Web processing is an extension to word processing.  Beyond the similarities of words to sentences to paragraphs to documents web processing concerns itself with relationships between compositions and concepts of linking.  The first step is the basics of linking. This chapterlinks text files later we will link multimedia.  Definition of linkingis the technical procedure for creating quick pathways between different sourcesof data whether print, audio, video or other which are stored in public placeson the internet.  This is a technical procedure created for the internetbut goes back to a human skill .  Humans have spent tremendous energieslearning to pass on what we are learning to others. Therefore Linking is a way that higher levels of information can be connected together .       

    A broad definition of linking is effective teaching, writing or anything that connects a collection of information in a structure and performs it in a sequence of events or steps.  A pathway for this is writing/books, lesson plans/unit plans, and electronic files/web sites.  Web processing is comparable to the invention of reading and writing in 700 BC greece when they would have explored this new technology.  In order to link we need computers, computer monitors and the internet.  Advantages are speed of delivery, convenience, global availability, edit ability, opportunity for media convergence, and number of information resources now availablein classroom. 

    Educators today have new options with online weekly planners, lesson plans, and unit plan documents and this can also be an organizational tool for curriculum materials.  The problems are unreliability of computers, degree of education required to use new tools, and unreliability of some resources on the internet.

   Through the creation of my web site, I can use this to deal with classroom leadership problems, curriculum development of lessons and unit plans, scheduling, communication of schedules to students and parents.

    Web design has commercial value and is a business skill for us and our students.  Web design is major goal, but also is important the four topic structure of LEAP or look, evoke, assess, publish.       

How many different kinds of information a teacher can send to parents and how many times a week parents might communicate with teachers if they both shared Internet access.  What might home/school/student interaction be like if your weekly lesson plans were online?  What might community perception of schools become if business and other community groups can work with students on projects during the school day, as a part of regular classes?  How else might the ability to publish on the web further enhance the profession of teaching?

  I find it helpful to have a template because it feels like we have some structure and we are not just building our site on the edge of a cliff.  It would be real easy with out a good foundation to have a rain storm and wash everything away.  I think in my own creation of my student's work it is important for me to be very structured not only in what I expect but to have a model for them to see.  I know that the fear ofthe unknown keeps many people from exploring new ideas, and I feel like oneof the comforts for me from modeling would be that I do not feel blocked inwhat to do.  That's why it is important to have an outline for my children.  When I first started teaching the major disadvantage I had of going in toteaching off the street verses having student teaching was the fact that Idid not yet have a structure in place for myself.  One of the joys ofdoing it next time is I feel confident and more clear on how to create thatfor myself.

  Her home page links to three major areas of her web site lesson planning, resume, and professional study.  If you start down the first pathway of lesson planning you will find she has three weeks of january planned out and she has two working links to week 1 and week 2.  TheJanuary 17, 2000 link does not work.  This provides a table of context and a calendar all in one.  When you click on week one you encounter her first weekly planner.  There she has her lesson plan for Monday written in.  She teaches many subjects so she has a plan for reading, math, socialstudies, and science.  She also includes on her schedule when her childrenwill be doing music, art and riding the bus home.  Her duties as a teacherare noted because she has faculty meeting on their as well.  If you followthe week 2 pathway you will find a similar planner ready for a different week.  Her links off of this page lead the viewer to a six point lesson plan foreach of her three reading groups, a math lesson, a social studies lesson,a science lesson.

   If you follow the second strand you find her resume.  She has interests in clogging, children, reading and she enjoys children's books.  If you follow the third strand you find the courses she has taken on one page.  The work she had done for class on a page behind that whichlinks to her unit plan on the solar system as well as her notes and journalizingfor the semester.

   There is definite evidence of tremendous work she has done with this mini book of information she has planned.

How does the grading scale work for this since there is only 67 points?  Does this web site count as our technology portfolio for North Carolina?

The first 5 points involve the professor having web addresses and email so he can grade our work.

The next 3 points involves presentation of web page designs. Questions to ask self does this have good contrast between foreground text and background color or tiled background images.  Correct arrangement of web page links.

The next 3 points involves having your web author name at the bottom of every page and have a link back to the page from which the user just came from.

The next 3 points involves an image on at least one of the assigned web pages that is appropriate to that page.

The next 4 points involves avoiding copyright laws by crediting others work where relevant.

The next 5 points involves grammar and spelling.  The writing must make sense.

Next 2 points index.html links to 3 pages lesson plans, professional study, and resume.

Next 3 pts Professional study page  this provides a link to courses you have taken or are taking.  Then link this page to the assignment page.

Next 2 pts field experience and weekly planner pages link from home page index. html.  Modify schedule so it matches actual schedule using with cooperating teachers classroom.

Next 2 pts course assignments web page should have links to unit plan (unit plan is grades separately)

Next 6 points weekly notes and diary linked to course assignment page.

Next 3 pts spreadsheet and database questions linked to course assignment page.

Next 7 points image table with seven multimedia elements.

Next 2 points resume linked to your site home page.

Next 2 points a page with description of interests and special projects involved college years and linked to resume page.

Next 8 points graduate students search strategies, bibliography, article reviews, linked from course page.

extra credit 7 points - link work to other courses, personally designed animated GIF's, other web pages, background color, images, multimedia files of sounds or video clips I have created.  No extra credit for usinganother's video multimedia work.

The week three does not have a link because it does not have an address show on the bottom bar when you put your mouse clicker on it.  Second reason is that it is not underlined on the lesson plan page.  The third reason is that the arrow does not turn into a hand and the final reason is that when you click nothing happens.

    All of the links link to a part of Sabrina's web site.  The index.html or home page links to lesson planning.  Then Lesson planning links to week one and week one links to three six point lesson plans.  Then lesson planning links to week two.  On the next pathway index.html links to brief resume which links to interests.  On the third pathway professional study links to EDEL466.htm or works from class which links to the unitplan.htm and class notes.  The class notes pathway links to all of her class notes and diaries which she made for class.  The other pathway linked to professional study is optional courses.

   The only aspect of this project that gives me anxiety is the emailing experts part of this project. 

   She starts off in section one with a brief description of what her children will be learning and that is the solar system whichincorporates technology.  She has three unit objectives.  She links her enabling objectives to the standard course of study and has an active link to the web site.  She includes in these objectives her technologygoals and links that to the technology goals of the state.  In the fourthsection she has a videotape and a lesson plan for introducing her unit.  This includes the time frame, introduction, focus and review, objectives,teacher input, materials, and questions, guided practice, independent practiceclosure and evaluation.  She has a power point.  She discusses copyright and fair use topics and links to a web site.  She discusses security of hardware and software.  She has higher order thinking questions with ten brief descriptions of lessons.  She has a conclusion with all of the previous elements she includes in all her lessons.  She records email experts and international experts.  She shows an email conference LISTSERVs and newsgroups.  She has child safe sites on the solar system and othersolar system sites.  She has a newsletter, database, spreadsheet, instructional software, video resources, classroom design, international expert, equipmentneeded, evaluation, and time period and she links back her web site to thecomputer page.

    Week one I contacted Chris Weaver and he said he would be my cooperating teacher since I did not have one and decided that my unit would be about The Odyssey.  I know that I want my students to build a web page which will use technology skills and also help them to integrate what they are learning and what they need to know for the end of Grade test.  I feel this will provide a great product and can be used by future classes as a study tool.

    Week two I meet with Chris and he filled out our agreement on the unit plan and we discussed ways to make this web page a successful teaching tool.  I decided to call my unit the voyage home, and I wrotea brief description including grade level and subject in it on my web page.  It links to my EDEL page or computers.html.

   My head hurts a little from all the parts of the unit but I am excited about creating a unit and seeing it work and be inaction.

Unit plan has ten sections each section has specific things that I have to do in each section and they are due in a specific week.  I organized the due dates above by week so that I can easily fill in this template. The ten sections that I will be filling in are the Title, Unit Objectives, Enabling Objectives, Introduction, Development, Conclusion, Materials/resources available and needed, Equipment needed, Evaluation, and time period.

   The benefits of using stick notes is they can be easily be changed and are not as permanent as a drawing which has to be redone.

1.2 is the map which will help us when we plan our web site

I put all my three pages into a folder on my disk called web.

I was unable to get to ap server through this page but found in accessible through link on web page.

Main idea take folders out of ap into web.  Instructions are on this page.

I felt linking became very easy after I helped someone else do it.  I felt the instructions on this page are very helpful.  I linked my webpages by following steps indicated here.

Absolute addresses which should be the full address and this is used if the location of the web page is linked in your web folder but somewhere else on the internet.  This always uses http://. 

Relative link only includes those files within your web account or diskette web folder.

Used Houghton's story board and penciled in my working links.

Thoughts are that I saved all my links as a drive and had to go back and do it with a more relative link.  I thought I had a relative link.  Oh well.  I think I am just learning a lot through my mistakes.

    Vax has the right to refuse to publish documents if they feel user is inappropriate and or unreasonable.  I used WSFTP because I have a windows.  My web site on the vax computer is http://wcuvax1.wcu.edu/~de21849/.

    What is the difference between sending email electronically verses sending non electronically?  The difference between sending email electronically and non electronically has to do with speed of delivery.  Electronic email allows you to contact another side of the world in minutes where non electronically could take days.  If you needed to send vital records or make important transactions quickly, this email allows you to perform at faster and faster rates.  The negative to this is that because communication has become so fast it is possible that things don't get thought through before they are sent.  This would be true if you were angry or upset.  In the heat of anger if you were writing non electronically you would have the benefit to think through your decisions.  Though I believe some of us meaning myself are stubborn enough even when I do things non electronically I still follow through and sometimes regret my anger or hastiness.  I guess the most important thing in the electronic age for me is to remember to breath while participating in it.

  7.1  Can you connect to an online service or internet.  Yes.

7.2  Can you use electronic mail in its many forms new email, send email, cc, bc, retrieve and read e-mail reply to sender, save, print, email.  Yes.

7.3  Access and use resources on the Internet and World Wide Web.  I can identify and use yahoo search engines and by going to advanced search you can filter your search.

7.4  Terms such as

Telecommunications is the sending and receiving of information electronically.

Direct Access is like a cable modem because you have immediate access.

Dial in access is using the phone lines to access a provider who hooks you to the internet through the phone line.

Modem is the device or hardware used to connect to the internet.

Baud rate The number of signal changes per second. 

Internet- is where information is exchanged over phone lines and brought from servers around the world to your home and office and out again.

World Wide Web-  is a giant database of information that can be accessed on different search engines or applications.

7.5 I have at home which is an internet service and my email there is [email protected].  I now have a web site on yahoo so that would be I guess a commercial account.

7.6 and 7.7 Online conferences relevant to professional information needs could be our classes that have video online.  Use of telnet to connect to remote computer on the internet.  I feel like we are doing this with our work on VAX and the Geocities web sites.

7.8 -7.16 I have some basic knowledge but feel I am weaker on then the previous numbers.

9.1 A linear multimedia presentation  (multi means more than one) audio, video, image, and text/data to the desktop.  When I used NC wise owl and we worked with the web sites at school I believed this is a linear multimedia presentation.  The students are given questions that walk them step by step to what they are to see and respond to.

9.2  Use a nonlinear hypermedia presentation- I believe what we are preparing on our web sites is hyper media because we will be using links outside our own to other databases.

9.3  media- is a video, audio, image and or text and data.

multimedia- is technology that allows more than one medium audio, video, image, and text/data to operate on desktop.

hypermedia- is a way of accessing not only text but also graphic, video, and audio information.  Connected to the idea of linking.

Clip media-  I do not know what this means

9.4-9.8 do not know a whole lot about but know I will be working on those this semester.

    We did not do this in class last time.  Is this something you want us to pursue on our own or would you like us to wait for class to proceed.