ET630 Agenda Class 5

• Questions and Announcements
  • Web 2.0 Project is due next class
    
  • The syllabus has it listed a week early (it is really due January 11)
    
  • Try to read others' blogs and make comments
  • Hand this in by emailing me the URL or submitting it via the assignment in Moodle
  • Be sure you can access your Loyola Network Space (or have some other reliable space to put Web sites)
  • Questions
• VoiceThread Update
• Don't forget to respond to the VoiceThread each week (responses don't have to be long)
  
• Charlene and Monica are tonight
• Kristen and Katie are next week
  
• Discussion Readings
  • Peters, Chapters 7 and 8
    
• Cognitive Surplus -- This is what Web 2.0 is all about
  
• Internet Values by Jim Sollisch
  • Name something that the Internet has made easier.
  • Why is that good?
  • Why is that bad?
• In-Class Activity:
  • Take the telecollaborative project you brainstormed last time (or another one if you have come up with something else since then)
  • Start to plan by brainstorming how you might fill in: http://nschubert.home.mchsi.com/education/edplanner.html
  • Try to develop a list of issues that need to be solved
• Copying Web Addresses (URLs)
  • Printing URLs in Windows/Internet Explorer
  • Printing URLs in Safari is not supported in older versions and is automatic in newer versions
  • Copying Web Addresses to Your Word Processor
    • Simple Copy and Paste
    • No Menus? Use ctrl-C and ctrl-V or command-C and command-V
    • I've been framed! How do I get the real address with frames?
      • Point and look
      • Open in a new frame (the right mouse button is your friend--on a one-button Mac, hold down the mouse button or ctrl-Click)
      • Copy the URL of the frame (the right mouse button is a really good friend)
      • Example: click and tell me the real URL of the content
• In-class Activity
• In groups of 2 or 3, look through several U.S. and international newspapers and write the top three headlines for your World newspaper
• We will spend a few minutes on this; you should think about how you might expand this to your classroom.
  
• Searching Strategies
  • Warm-up: What type of milk (whole, 2%, 1%, or skim) is the most popular in the United States
  • Search Strategies
  • Quotations
  • Boolean Operators
  • Narrowing Searches
  • Different Search Engines
    • http://www.google.com/
    • http://www.bing.com/
      
    • http://www.yippy.com/ (clustered results)
      
    • http://www.lycos.com/
    • http://www.dogpile.com/ (search multiple search engines)
    • http://www.yahoo.com/
    • http://www.ask.com/
    • http://technorati.com/ (search blog postings)
      
    • http://groups.google.com/ (search discussion groups)
    • http://news.google.com/ (search recent news stories)
    • http://www.archive.org/ (search Web pages as they used to be)
    • http://www.altavista.com/image (search for images)
    • http://images.google.com/ (search for images)
    • http://www.goodsearch.com/ (donate to charity as you search)
    • http://answers.yahoo.com/ (ask real people)
      
  • Search Engines for Kids (see New York Times article)
    • http://www.askforkids.com/
    • http://kids.yahoo.com/
    • http://www.kidsclick.org/
    • http://onekey.com/
    • Other search engines often have filtered options (see, for example, Google's Safe Search options)
  • Advertising on Search Engines (see New York Times article)
• Web Page Authoring With Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) (continued)
  • A great introduction to CSS: http://www.tizag.com/cssT/
    
  • A thorough but rather technical description of CSS: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
  • A thorough tutorial for CSS: http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
  • An easy-to-follow introduction to CSS: http://draac.com/css/css1.html
  • Document Sections and Inheritance (including the <DIV> tag)
  • <STYLE TYPE="text/css"> … </STYLE>
  • Always close curly brackets and end each line with a semicolon:

p
{
	text-indent: 20px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}

• Classes

p.red
{
	color: red;
}

<p class="red">This text will be red</p>

• Wikipedia and Critical Information Literacy Discussion
  • Vote: Pick carefully, you can only vote once
    

  Resolved: Wikipedia is evil
  	Yes, wikipedia should be banned from all school use
  	Yes, but it is OK if the information is rigorously verified
  	Maybe, it could be useful as one of many sources
  	No, it is better than most sources and should be used first
  pollcode.com free polls

  • Debate: Resolved: Wikipedia is Evil
  • Be sure to read Dawson's take on Wikipedia in Education
  • Be sure to read my article in Moodle
    
  • Be sure to read ideas from Andy Carvin
• JavaScript
  • Introduction to JavaScript
  • A simple JavaScript Tutorial
  • My JavaScript Playing Around File
  • Advanced JavaScript Examples
  • JavaScript for the Total Non-Programmer from the Web Teacher
• Graphics on the Web
  • Size of Graphics
  • A Closer View of Web Graphics
• Newspapers on the Internet
  • Google News Search
  • Listing of Newspapers Around the World and in the United States
  • Listing of English Language Newspapers Around the World
  • Front Pages of over 700 Newspapers from 76 Countries
    
  • The New York Times (USA)
  • The Irish Times (Ireland)
  • The Melbourne Age (Australia)
  • The Jerusalem Post (Israel)
  • The Namibian (Namibia)
  • The Mail and Guardian (South Africa)
• Separating Editorial Content from Advertising
  • Amazon.com (see New York Times article)
• What is the future of news?
  • http://www.abcnews.go.com/Business/IndustryInfo/story?id=3389523&page=1
• Assignments:
  • Web 2.0 Project
    
  • Peters, Chapter 6 (it is short and full of good information)
  • Read additional readings on Moodle (including my chapter on searching)
    
  • Respond to VoiceThread

This page was prepared by: David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.

Last updated: December 23, 2010