Virtual handouts:

• Contract & Score sheet (1 page-Word document)
• Georgia Technology Standards for Educators Survey
• Patricia's Survey
• Course syllabus
• SLM Student Technology Survey Results Self Diagnostic

Paper handouts:

• Opening Day Questionnaire
• folders (if you've ever had me as a teacher before, you will probably find one with your name on it)
• nametags, if you didn't bring one (temporary: 3x5 card and gem clip)

Activities

1. Opening Day Questionnaire: Fill out while we are waiting to begin. Leave this in your folder to turn in before you go.
2. Tech Tip of the Day: Online calendars are cool. See Calendars Net.
3. Syllabus: detailed description
4. Removable media - what will work?
5. Course schedule - decision
6. Assignment overviews
7. Class web site tour
8. Introductions
• Your name, what you want to be called
• Where you're from
• The degree you're working on
• Your profession
• Your professional aspirations
• Something unique about you
9. How to sign up for these opportunities: Tech Tips; Class Job list; and even for Assignment B.
10. Preview homework
11. Time to work on homework.

 

• Fill out two surveys:
• Georgia Technology Standards for Educators.  This diagnostic instrument will help shape the course over the weeks to come.  Click on the link; choose "save file to disk," save it to your computer desktop, rename the file to "yourname-gapsc-survey.doc".  Now, open the file and fill it out as you would normally edit a Word document.  Finally, save the file to a portable medium or a network space.  In the next couple of class days, we will show you how to post this to your personal assignment page.
• Patricia's Survey - completed as part of an Ed.S. project this past spring, this survey asks similar questions in a slightly different way.  Use the same process to edit the file.
• Think about some projects you might like to accomplish as a part of this class.  Contracts are due Day 3.
• Read this article: Hooper & Rieber (1995), Teaching with Technology.  We will be reading several things from Dr. Rieber's online article archive - check it out.  We will discuss this article Monday as a way of launching our "big picture" thinking.
• Establish an email account if you have not already done so, and make sure you have a UGA MyID.  Go to Arches to accomplish all of this.
• Please make sure to wear your nametag every day.

• Tech Tip: Increasing and decreasing fonts in Netscape Communicator (control-], control-[)
• Questions about the syllabus?
• Theme for the day: Standards
• Georgia Technology Standards for Educators Survey and Patricia's Survey: leave in your folder as a "before" picture (needs assessments)

1. Things we need ahead of time: Know where your server space is. (For most of us, that's Arches.) How to find Composer and FTP on this machine.  An "assignment" file (perhaps in Word).
2. Method A (from scratch): Using Netscape Composer, design a simple web page that includes your name, a mail-to, and a table. Make one cell for each class you are taking right now.  Save as you go, naming the page "assignments" or something similar.  If this page is your ONLY web page for right now, you might name it "index." If you want it to be obscurely "hidden,"  give it a very strange name.  Filenames for webpages should be lowercase, no spaces.
3. Method B: find an Assignment Page you like, and Edit Page.
   
4. Link in an assignment.  (For now, any Word document will do.)
5. Make sure you know how to navigate to the folder on your hard drive (or floppy).
6. Launch WS-FTP.  Login to Arches, using your user name and password.
7. Transfer your new web page into the "Public" directory of your web space.  Also transfer the documents you linked in and any graphics.
8. Test.  Troubleshoot as necessary.
9. Save your file in at least two places.
10. You can make your page fancy by adding graphics and colors.  Play around with this until you like the way it looks.  You can edit your page and FTP it as many times as you like. Do keep up with which version is the latest, however.
• Please don't worry if you feel overwhelmed with this process at first.  This is the quick-start version. We will devote the last week of class to making a web site in a more methodical way.
• The next task for another day is to update your assignment page.
  

• Work on your first project.
  
• If you feel mystified about making assignment pages, browse these resources: How to use FTP for Arches and Netscape Tutorial.
• Finalize your contract - due on Wednesday.

Moving your database file around: Access is really wierd about this. The only method I know is to save and close the file, close Access.  Navigate to where the file is. Right-click on it, choose copy; then paste it wherever you want to copy it to.

About database content:

• Look around for some items to "buy" for your media center. You may already have a stash of recommendations.  Hints: "shop" in Amazon, or bring a vendor catalog if you have one.  Collect the information that you will need to go in the database fields while you're at it (copy/paste into a Word file, bookmark, etc.)
• If you want to make a different kind of database, think about a factual topic. What categories of information could you gather that would help organize that topic?  Example: States - with one record per state; each record might contain the fields capitol, state tree, order of admission into the Union, geographical section, major products.  Another example: Baseball teams - with fields city, league, championships won, famous players, home stadium, mascot.
• Another kind of database could be a resource file.  My Music database is an example of this. Some of the fields are composer, title, collection, location, uses, last used, key, and style.
  

• check on your pending grades (see WebCT Gradebook)
• database assignment grades should now be showing
• webquest grade status
  
• coming up
• RotW means Rules of the Wrote - key to grammar.
  
• If your file has loose ends - give it to Laura.
  

• where we left off yesterday
• the practice website

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