ET630 Agenda Class 6

• Questions and Announcements
  • Accessing projects from previous semesters
  • Go to the list of previous students' projects
  • Summer 2008 should all be correct
  • Summer 2007 need to be adjusted to the same format as Summer 2008
  • http://studentpersonalpages.loyola.edu/YEAR/USERNAME/www/...
  • YEAR will likely be a number between 2006 and 2011
  • USERNAME is the same with the ~
  • ... is everything in the original URL after the USERNAME
  • I will fix these soon
  • Think About Handing in Projects (next class if you need deadlines)
  • Be sure you can access your Loyola Network Space (I believe all spaces are now fixed)
  • After class, attend the Putting Justice in Education Series about Education Policy Issues and the 2008 Election
  • Be sure to vote in the Pumpkin Contest (by the front door)
  • See previous years' entries
  • Questions
• Discussion Readings
  • Internet Projects - Problem Solving
  • Teleresearch: Before seeking information, think about the purpose, pp. 66-76
  • Bruce, "Searching the Web: New Domains for Inquiry"
  • Chapter 3, Teleresearch
• Technology Anxiety Withdrawal by Andrei Codrescu
• 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
• 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
• Newspapers on the Internet
  • Evard, Children's interests in news: Online opportunities
  • Google News Search
  • Listing of Newspapers Around the World and in the United States
  • Listing of English Language Newspapers Around the World
  • 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
• Searching Strategies
  • Warm-up: Use a search engine to try to spell SEE zer Salad: Cesar Salad, Ceaser Salad, Caeser Salad, Caesar Salad, Ceasar Salad
  • Search Strategies
  • Quotations
  • Boolean Operators
  • Narrowing Searches
  • Different Search Engines
    • http://www.google.com/ (see New York Times article)
    • http://www.lycos.com/
    • http://www.dogpile.com/
    • http://www.yahoo.com/
    • http://www.ask.com/
    • 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/ (see New York Times article)
    • 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)
  • Search Engines for Kids (see New York Times article)
    • http://www.askforkids.com/
    • http://kids.yahoo.com/
    • http://www.kidsclick.org/
    • Other search engines often have filtered options (see, for example, Google's Safe Search options)
  • Advertising on Search Engines (see New York Times article)
• Graphics on the Web
  • Size of Graphics
  • A Closer View of Web Graphics
• Assignments:
  • Read Harris, Chapters 4 and 5 http://nschubert.home.mchsi.com/education/eddevelop.html (read online because the amount to read is minimal and you might want to check out some of the links)
  • Project I (for those who need deadlines)

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

Last updated: October 24, 2008