Transcript 2.Uses
Educational uses of technologies • Beyond the web: the broad range of educational uses of new technologies – The Bruce & Levin taxonomy But first… • Notes from Monday • Your pictures Bruce & Levin taxonomy • Based on Dewey’s four impulses of children – – – – Inquiry Communication Construction Expression Your comments • Bruce & Levin, 2003 • http://cternt1.ed.uiuc.edu/ipp/default.cfm?paperid=17 Exemplary educational uses of the web • For teachers • For students Brainstorming Task • Given the Bruce & Levin taxonomy and the exemplary educational uses the class found, develop at least one exciting new (at least to you) use of technology to accomplish some important educational goal you have. Post the idea in TAPPED IN in the “Brainstorming” conference. Brainstorming Teams: 15 minutes • One outgoing student and one incoming student • Different grouping than first class Dreamweaver • A "wysiwyg" web editor: what you see is what you get • mostly wysiwtg: what you see is what they get • Help tutorials in Dreamweaver • Help on the web from Macromedia site at http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/productinfo/tutorials/gettingstarted/ Starting with a template • Optional - can start with a blank page or a pre-existing personal web page • Template to start with • Load it into a web browser • Save as a web page on your own computer A note about web file names • End in ".htm" or ".html" • No spaces • No punctuation other than dash "-" or underline "_" (except for period in .htm or .html extension) • All lowercase Local vs. remote • Create a folder on the computer you use in the Computer Lab (name it with your name) • Tomorrow we'll learn how to transfer files from your local computer to the remote server computer Pictures and how to copy them • Find a picture • Click and hold (Mac) or right click (Win) or Ctrl click and hold (Safari) • Copyrights and wrongs Next class meeting • Thursday, same time, same place • Snacks for Thursday: Melissa H. & Kathryn Lab time • Log into TAPPED IN and post your brainstorming idea • Dreamweaver for modifying/creating web pages (for those who aren’t already using some other web editor) • Create or modify a personal web page for yourself. You can use a “template” if you’d like. Preview of Thursday • How to put your eportfolio on the TEP server Break time! • Meet in the computer lab in 15 minutes: Lab tasks • TAPPED IN discussions • Eportfolio creation