ET630 Agenda Class 6

• Warm-up: What type of milk (whole, 2%, 1%, or skim) is the most popular in the United States
• Questions and Announcements
  • Project updates
  • Web 2.0 Project is due today
    
  • Critical Information Literacy Project is due in two classes
    
  • Telecollaborative and Web Site Projects are due in four classes
• Class Summary Update
• Jesse and Becky are today
• Julie and Stephanie are next class
• Be sure to comment each class
• I emailed comments on your Exit Tickets from last week to some individuals when something caught my eye
  
• Check out the NEW video at the end of the Web Site Creation section of the class home page about embedding Google forms into a Web page
  
• Questions
• Project Presentations
  
• Last day of class
  
• 10-minute project presentations
• You may present one project or a brief overview of more than one
• Try to show the most interesting things you did (either technically and/or curricularly)
• Searching Strategies
• Google's Search Education
  
• 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.bing.com/images (search for images)
  • http://images.google.com/ (search for images)
  • http://www.bing.com/videos/browse (search for videos)
    
  • 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/
  • http://www.kidrex.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)
• In-Class Activity:
• Take the telecollaborative project you brainstormed earlier in the semester (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
• http://www.epals.com/host-detail.php?id=50c79912-346b-49f6-9bf4-58cbc9035002&new_login=ga1
• Check out 10 Tips for Starting a Global Project
  
• Try to develop a list of issues that need to be solved
• Other Web Spaces for You
  • Tripod
    • Free account has lots of ads on the page
    • 20MB limit
      
    • Get an account at http://www.tripod.lycos.com/
    • Owned by Lycos
  • Lunarpages
  • Free for K-12 public school teachers
  • Must display small banner ad thanking Lunarpages
  • Get details at http://www.lunarpages.com/education/
  • You must email them <education@lunarpages.com> to sign up
    
  • Search for other free options at places like http://www.free-webhosts.com/free-web-hosting.php
    
  • Your School
  • Your Own ISP
  • "Free" Online Web Page Authoring Systems
  • Weebly
  • Wix
  • Google Sites
  • Use a wiki or blog instead of a regular Web page
  • Buy Space
    • http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/
    • http://www.tripod.lycos.com/
    • http://www.godaddy.com/
    • When this question came up recently on the Ed Tech Listserv, the following were recommended:
    • http://Bluehost.com
    • http://ninehub.com
    • http://www.siteground.com/
    • ...and thousands more
• More CSS
• Try http://colorcombos.com/ and search for a color combination
• Use that for background and text colors
• background-color: #ededed;
• color: #000000;
• Create divs for a variety of sections (such as heading, footer, menu, content)
• For the menu area, use
• float:left;
• width:200px;
• For the content, use
• margin-left:200px;
• For the footer, use
• clear:left;
• Use other styling for any of the sections
• Watch this on video
  
• Work Time (time permitting)
• Assignments
• Read Marcovitz, Chapter 3
  

Last updated: February 20, 2013