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Wilkes University
21st Century Telecommunications
Ed 526

This course is designed for educators to explore ways in which to use network resources to support classroom instruction. Resources will be obtained via the Internet, e-mail, and listservs. Participants will collaborate to integrate on-line projects into their curriculum.

Instructor:

Ron Szabo

Telephome:

610-867-8989

Web Site

Contains Link to Class web site

Location

Mac Lab 160, East Hills Middle School

Day

Wednesdays, 4:15 - 7:00 PM

E-mail

rszabo@beth.k12.pa.us

Attendance

Attendance at every class is required. In the event a student needs to miss class:

Please notify the instructor either by phone or e-mail
Contact another student to find out what material was assigned
Email assignments to instructor

Required Text:

William, Robin & Tollet, John. The Non-Designer's Web Book 2nd Edition. Berkeley: Peachpit Press, 2000.

Optional Text:

Brisbin, Shelly. Visual Quickstart Guide: Adobe GoLive 6 for Macintosh and Windows. Berkeley: Peachpit Press, 2002.

Course Goals:

Use e-mail and listservs.
Use a LAN and a WAN to store and access resources.
Develop Web navigation strategies.
Use search engines to locate Web resources.
Use Adobe GoLive to create Web pages.
Use protocols to locate, download or transfer files
Develop an educational project that uses Internet resources
Design and develop an educational site.

Many of the downloadable materials are in PDF format. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat Reader, download it at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html

Syllabus:

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Class	Topics	Materials for Class	Assignments
1 9/3/03	Overview and Introduction introduction to the course overview of assignments accessing folders on a server Blackboard Email Accounts Settings Signature files Address books Sending Carbon copies Priority	Eudora Manual - 8MB (pdf) Eudora Settings - 168 KB (pdf) Learn the Net: E-mail	Required Text: Read Chapter 1 (Intro to Internet) and 2 (Searching) Create addressbook entry for class and send an email to class
2 9/10/03	Introduction to the Web Searching Sherlock Search Engines Bookmarks/Favorites Collecting and sharing URLs Evaluation criteria E-Mail Forwarding / Resend Attachments Mailing Lists/listservs Listserv Assignment Description	Chapter 1 Review Birth of the Net Learn the Net: How Search Engines Work - (Flash player required) Searching the Web Resources Listserv Resources	Required Text: Read Chapter 3 (Webpages) and 4 (Before you Start) Send an attachment to instructor; Subscribe to 2 Educational Listservs
3 9/17/03	Discuss Listserv Experiences and assignment questions E-mail Mailboxes Filters Stationery Web Page Construction Intro. with GoLive Overview Creating Site Preferences Creating Page Working with Text Begin Six Favorite Sites Page	Favorite Sites Instructions For review of concepts: Read Adobe GoLive Quickstart Chapters 1, 2 and 3 and / or Adobe Free GoLive 6.0 Online Tutorials (Shockwave Required) Lesson 1 Lesson 2 (Text part only) Lesson 3 (Site Window only)	Required Text: Read Chapter 6 (Basic Design)and 7 (Navigation) Review Listservs
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4 9/24/03	Web Page Critiquing Educational Website Critique Assignment Web Page Construction Uploading/downloading of site	Sucky to Saavy - By Jeffrey M. Glover CAST - Bobby	Required Text: Read Chapter 8 (Good and Bad Design) and 10 (Graphic Definitions) Locate Educational Website to critique Listserv assignment due next week!
5 10/1/03	Review Listserv Assignment Introduction to Images Copyright Issues Formats - .gif, .jpg Downloading - right mouse click on PC or click and hold on Mac Web Page Construction Continued Working with Images Begin Six Favorite Sites Page	Naming your files for the web Image Formats on the Web How to download images from the WWW Graphics Resources What is Copyright? Copyright and the Internet Copyright downloadables Request form in PDF format (32KB) For review of concepts: Read Adobe GoLive Quickstart Chapter 4 Adobe Free GoLive 6.0 Online Tutorials (Shockwave Required) Lesson 6 - Working with Images	Due: Listserv Comparison Required Text: Read Chapter 9 (Color on the Web) Start locating Images for webpage Continue Educational Website Critique work
6 10/8/03	Using East Hills Server resource to save files Webpage Construction Continued Working with Tables Working with Links Working with Color Color on the Web (Chapter 9) Work on Six Favorite Sites Page	Links demo page ZSPC Super Color Chart For review of concepts: Read Adobe GoLive Quickstart Chapters 6 and 7 Adobe Free GoLive 6.0 Online Tutorials (Shockwave Required) Lesson 5 - Working with Links Lesson 7 - Working with Tables	Educational Website Critique due next week!! Place a table and two links on six favorite sites page
7 10/15/03	Review Website Critique Assignment Internet Project Assignment Description		Due: Educational Website Critique Start to formulate Internet Project Search for resources for project
8 10/22/03	GraphicConverter program Animated Graphics and Gifbuilder Creating graphics with AppleWorks Draw Web Plugins and Helper Applications (Stuffit Expander, Acrobat Reader, Quicktime) Worktime	Websafe Colors in AppleWorks 6 (PDF - 48KB) GraphicConverter handout graphicconverter2.pdf (196KB) Animated Graphics tutorial	Continue to Work on Internet Project Assignment
9 10/29/03	Educational Website Assignment Description Importance of Paths Citing Web Resources Typography on the Web Worktime	Citing Web Resources Links Lafayette College's Guide to Citing Web Resources Online! Citation Styles Websafe Fonts	Continue to Work on Internet Project Assignment Continue to work on Six Favorite Sites Page Internet Project Description Due next week! Schedule Lab Time if needed
10 11/15/03	Advanced Webpage features PDF - Print to PDF/Mac OSX / Windows Imagemaps Worktime	Creating PDFs Mac OS 9 Print to PDF Mac OS X (52KB) MS Windows PDF-XChange software	Due: Internet Project Description Six Favorite Sites Page due next week Schedule Lab Time if needed
11 11/12/03	Favorite Sites Pages Presentations Advanced Webpage features Frames Forms Javascript Worktime		Due: Six Favorite Sites Page Schedule Lab Time if needed
12 11/19/03	Self -Evalution Assignment Description Worktime		Continue to work on Educational Website Schedule Lab Time if needed
13 12/3/03	Worktime		Continue to work on Educational Website Schedule Lab Time if needed Educational Website and Self Evaluation due next week!!!!!!
14 12/10/03	Final Project Presentations		Due: Educational Website Due: Self-Evaluation

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