Iota Homeroom

July 15

            Review

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                        Go to homepage http://webinstituteforteachers.org/2003/homerooms/iota/ to see site of the day (Walter) and word of the day.

 

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                        Review terms:  URL, FTP, CPU, default, server

Why can’t people see a webpage that is on this computer?  What do you need to do with a web page to make it visible on the WWW?

How do we get a web page to a server?

What is the “name” (or address) of our server.

Explain for first time file system indicated by “/” in server.  Refer to Martha Moreno Hein to explain this further  to class

 

New Today: 

Bill explain  What is a browser?  How does it interpret web pages?  What is HTML?

Note that pages can look different in different browsers and on different monitors.

Show example of underlying HTML in http://cuip.net/~jay/html.html

                       

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                        Students do above for themselves, but for a very short time

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Jay begins an explanation of Composer, using module at http://webinstituteforteachers.org/2003/modules/composer/index.php as his guide

            Demonstrate opening pages:  new page and http://cuip.net/~jay/jaymulberryprofilepage.html

 

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Have students do this

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Demonstrate toolbar

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have students mess with the profile page.

 

In turn demonstrate text design, saving pages, links and images and have students do same.

 

Use FTP to load students’ new profile pages on server and look at the results.

 

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Discuss elements of WebQuests, and how to gather and save links

(monitor on) Students gather and save links.