ET630 Agenda Class 3

• Web Search Warmup:
  • What two historical documents were linked from the main White House Page in October 1997?
• Questions and Announcements
• Class Summary Update
• Thanks to Ashley and Teresa are doing the summary last class
  
• Natalie and Lisa are tonight
• Please use your Loyola username and password to login to your Loyola VoiceThread account
  
• Liz and Sam are next class
  
• Don't forget you are required to comment on the class summary before next class
• Natalie sent me this article about a telecollaborative project her niece is doing. I'm hoping she can Skype in and talk to us about it.
  
• Questions
  
• Harris, "Curriculum Based Telecollaboration"
  • Internet Projects - Interpersonal Exchange
    
• Web 2.0 in the Classroom - The Flat Classroom Project -- Peters, Chapter 3
• http://vodpod.com/watch/2981606-the-flat-classroom-project-conference-video-2009
• Telecollaborative Brainstorm:
  • Think about your curriculum and think of 2 or 3 areas that might benefit from a connection with other classes via the Internet.
  • Brainstorm ideas for projects in that curricular area.
  • Share with the class (note other students who might have overlapping interests with whom you might develop a project together).
• Web 2.0 Sharing
• Web 2.0 Quick Hit: Video to YouTube: http://youtu.be/QJnQQK9u0jc
• Time of video: 1 minute
• Total time to create and put on YouTube: 3 minutes
  
• Three to five volunteers to share something new in their Web 2.0 projects
  
• Discuss Collier, "In Praise of the Internet: Shifting Focus and Engaging Critical Thinking Skills"
• Fake Web sites
• Remember, "Everything on the Web isn't true" is just Step 1.
  
• What will it take...
  
• Nazis on the Web: Group Exercise
• Discuss: Does Facebook (or Pinterest or Tumblr or Twitter or ...) change critical information literacy?
  
• Scaffolding Critical Information Literacy
• Grade-level skills
  
• In grade-level groups, think about what students at your grade level can be expected to know about critical information literacy
• List at least two or three things
• Brainstorm ideas for an activity that might teach these things
• Group 1: Lisa, Sam, Jesse S.
  
• Group 2: Natalie, Becky, Matt
  
• Group 3: Julie, Sarah, Liz, Cheryl
• Group 4: Amy, Stephanie, Mandy
• Group 5: Jess F., Teresa, Ashley
  
• Put it together
• If we put all our learning together, will students be able to progress through school with a strong sense of critical infromation literacy?
• If not, what are we missing?
• Brainstorm Critical Information Literacy on the Web
  • In your groups, brainstorm age-appropriate topics to explore in the format of the Nazis on the Web activity.
  • Look for websites that you could use with one of those projects.
  • Each group should email to the class a list of at least three potential topics, a paragraph about one topic that was selected, and a list of websites that provide a variety of perspectives on the topic.
• Review of Introduction to Creating Web Pages With HTML
• See Marcovitz, Chapter 9
  
• Look for Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML, listed as secondary text on the syllabus
  
• A Complete Guide to HTML
• HTML Code Tutorial
• Additional Web Page Creation Sources
  • Colours on the Web
  • Color combos for good design
    
• Using Your Loyola Web Space
  • Guide to Student Personal Web Pages at Loyola
  • Test out loading pages into your Web space
    • Create a simple Web page (or use one you already have)
    • Log in to your G:\ Drive and copy a file into the www folder
    • If you are on a Loyola computer, you can just copy to the G:\ drive in My Computer
    • If you are on a laptop, you will need to follow the directions for accessing the G:\ drive from home on Windows or Mac
  • Find your page online
    • http://studentpersonalpages.loyola.edu/username/www/foldername/filename.html
    • "username" should be your username (that you use to login to WebAdvisor, Moodle, etc.)
    • "foldername" should be the name of the folder you put the file in on the server (if any)
    • "filename.html" is the name of the file, which can be omitted if the file name is index.html
• Probably Next Time: Web Page Creation with KompoZer
• KompoZer has some issues - quit and restart KompoZer if something stops working
• Aptana - good for editing code (not WYSIWYG)
  
• Probably Next Time: In small groups, discuss The Case of "Black Invention Myths" (or the alternative site)
  
• What does the Marcovitz chapter, Critical Information Literacy (on Moodle), say is wrong with the site?
• What would the Bruce article, Credibility of the Web. say about this?
• What would the different approaches to reading, from the Bruce article, say about this site?
• What about sites like http://www.martinlutherking.org/ (warning: content is not appropriate for all ages and sensibilities)
  
• Assignments:
• Peters, Chapters 4 and 5
• Read Facebook in First Grade
• Respond to Class Summary
• Install KompoZer on your computers (it is free) if you haven't already
  
• I am using version 0.8b3; be sure you get the English version
• Keep working on your Web 2.0 Blog Assignment (including posting and responding to others)
• Start thinking about ideas for telecollaborative projects and critical information literacy projects.
  

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

Last updated: January 28, 2013