Archive of Class Blogs and Sites Spring 2006:
(I will keep these on as long as I can)

• Class Blog SITE
• Jack's Blog SITE
• Riley's Blog SITE
• Will's Blog SITE
• Seth's Blog SITE

Welcome to our class site!

This page will be your main resource for this class. There will be links to all of our newsletters and assignments as well as links to the class blog and all of the student's individual blogs and web sites.

Class Blog - Our class blog will be a place that has lessons, examples, and discussions related to our projects.

Bloglines is a great website that will keep track of all of the blogs that you want to visit often. You can enter in all of your classmates blog addresses and just go back to that site to see if anyone has updated their blogs rather than going to each one, separately.

Learning resources: One of our main goals in the G.E.R.I. program is to teach students to be self-directed learners. Purdue's Three Stage Model calls for the teachers to be facilitators to student's learning rather than the old-fashioned type of teacher that stands up in front of the class and lectures. Below are links to sites that will teach you how to make web sites. Please feel free to use them and move ahead at your own pace. If you can not access your Purdue file directory from home, you can still practice on your computer then apply the  knowledge once you arrive to class  on Saturdays.

ACCESSING YOUR DIRECTORY FROM HOME -  {UPDATED} This is a relatively easy way of accessing your files. You can also use this to load picture files, etc to your account rather than using CD, flash drive or email. BE SURE TO READ THE WARNING about editing your web pages on your home computer and then uploading them- they will get messed up in the transfer. You can, however, make web pages, upload them to your account, and then fix them when you get here. If you do choose to do that, don't make any internal links on those pages. You will probably have to re-apply your theme to each page- sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Here is the program.

Microsoft Training from Microsoft. COM
Front Page in the Classroom from Act360
Front Page Tutorials from Electric Teacher
Microsoft Front Page Online Tutorial from Eastern University
Front Page 200 Tutorial from Florida Gulf Coast University - not a lot has changed from the 2000 version to the 2003 version. Almost everything in this tutorial applies to the current software.

Course Info:


File Name Rules
Metacognition Questions

Week One
Newsletter and Homework

Week Two (Overview)
Newsletter and Homework 
Week 2- Homework Checklist
Setting Permissions Instructions
Brainstorming- Handout
Brainstorming- Things I Like To Do
Here is Abi's sample page
Here is a great site on Brainstorming from ESLFlow.Com!!

Week Three
Newsletter and Homework
Step-by-Step

Week Four
Newsletter and Homework
See note above for new way to access your account from home. You can upload your files and then have them here to work on when you get here.
Files for class:
Layout
Bathroom
Kitchen
Frame Sample page

Week Five
Newsletter and Homework

Week Six
Newsletter and Homework
Included content page
Banner Ad Manager
Email List
 

Final Saturday Reception: Refreshments will be served in the Beering Hall lobby following the 12:00 noon dismissal.