Meeting Three--Designing Syllabi and Online Course Pages

Objectives:

  • Begin design of a syllabus for course.
  • Begin design of an online page for course.

    Meeting Three--Links

    There are many programs available to help you write HTML. Here are some online sites to guide you. Remember, too, that the Computer Center at UConn offers free classes over the summer and during the academic year.

    <HTML Guides>

    A Beginner's Guide to HTML

    Yale Web Style Manual

    Beginner's Guide to Forms

    Yahoo HTML Page

    . . . you can find many other online HTML help files and guides at Yahoo's extensive site.

    Color Specifier

    . . . for background colors in HTML

    The Web Developer's Virtual Library

    Index of Multimedia Images Available for Download

    . . . snap up your web page

    Internet in the Classroom Tutorial

    . . . offers a few templates and ideas for class homepage construction.

    Search Engines

    search.com

    . . . one of the most powerful search engines on the WWW, this site encompasses over 250 other such engines.

    AltaVista

    Yahoo


    Pedagogical Issues

    Designing a Virtual Classroom

    . . . an NJIT paper with excellent references.

    EduCom

    . . . subtitled "Transforming Education Through Information Technology, this site is updated weekly and offers a variety of services.

    EdWeb

    . . . a "hyperbook" by Andy Carvin established "to explore the worlds of educational reform and information technology."

    From Now On

    . . . an educational technology journal.

    Learning Through Technology

    . . . purports to be a tutorial-type site to help you integrate use of technology into your classroom (sort of like this seminar!).

    Technology and Education Resources

    . . . a long list of WWW links, many are geared for grammar and high school teachers.

    Delivering Instruction on the World Wide Web

    . . . by Thomas Fox McManus, University of Texas at Austin.

    Using the Web in Education

    . . . by Jay Kaplan, Economics Department, University of Colorado

    WILT: A WWW based Interactive Language Teaching Tool

    . . . although geared towards the foreign languages, this certainly has application for basic English composition courses

    The Academic Net

    . . . an online journal, updated frequently, devoted to the discussion of education and the Internet

    Plugging In

    . . . addresses many of the central pedagogical issues in teaching with technology

    Teachers.Net

    . . . although geared towards grammar and high school teachers, this site offers paradigms for class web pages

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