NU July 8

WELCOME

1. Introduction of mentors and our goals for you. Before you leave here in four weeks:

• You will feel more comfortable with technology and how to use it in your school.
• You will create a brief personal page and a webquest.
• You should feel comfortable asking questions.
• You should know places to find information and how to search for the rest.
• You will be comfortable with the process of finding, adapting, and using educational materials and information from the Internet.
• You will understand that this is not about adding additional tasks to your workload. It is about using technology to make your tasks easier.
• You should be able to move files to and from your server folder with ease.

Introduction of participants

• Your goals - what do you expect from this 4 week seminar?
• Briefly share background information about yourself.
• Share how you've used computers in the past- personally and educationally.

2. Rules for Wadsworth Computer Labs

• No food in the Lab.
• No open drink containers. (Drinks must have screw tops.)
• There are no dumb questions. Questions are welcome and expected. If you do not understand, always ask. If you have a question, probably a lot of people have the same question, or should have it if they are listening. Your questions will help others in the class as well as yourself.
• Make sure we have shut down all computers at the end of the day.

3. WIT requirements and goals - (review)

Introduction to Using the Web in the Classroom

Attendance:

We are required to keep attendance records.

Please be prompt. We intend to start on time every day.

--From the WIT handbook.

Absence policy:
• CPDUs are awarded based on the number of hours you actually attend WIT. The maximum is 80 hours (16 CEUs). You will lose 1 CPDU for each hour you are absent.
• If you miss more than 2 days (8 hours) of WIT, you are no longer eligible for CPS Lane Promotion Credit.
• If you miss more than 2 days (8 hours) of WIT, your stipend (if any, offered by the Chicago Public Schools to full-time certified teachers) will be cut. If you miss 6 or more days (24 hours or more) of WIT, you will no longer be eligible for the stipend.
• Lateness to sessions will not be tolerated. You are allowed 2 tardies without penalty. After the first 2, any additional tardies of more than 30 minutes will count as ½ day missed (2 hours absence). In addition, you may not leave early. If you leave more than 30 minutes early on any day during WIT, you will be penalized ½ day missed (2 hours absence).
• A portion of the stipend will depend upon your implementation of your WIT Webquest or curriculum web. More details will be given at orientation

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4. What are these pages and how will we use them?

• Nu Home
• Site of the Day
• Participants Page
• Projects Page

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5. WIT Survey

WIT wants us to take the Preliminary WIT survey, which is a part of overall program evaluation.

Find and open Netscape Navigator. Go to Homerooms, then NU homeroom, and to July 8th on the calendar there. Scroll down to number 6. We will do the required survey.

Pre-WIT survey

http://webinstituteforteachers.org/2003/feedback/presurvey.php

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6. After you have finished the survey early, you may have time to explore.

Netscape opens to its "Home" page, which in this case (we hope) is set to this url:

http://webinstituteforteachers.org .

• On this page, click on Homerooms.
• On the Homerooms page, click on NU. This is our homeroom's main page.
  Please bookmark the NU home page. (Bookmarks | Add Bookmark)
• On the NU home page, explore: click the buttons and links to see what they go to.
• Finally, in the calendar on the NU home page, click on the July 8 link. .

The July 8 page is this page. We will have a page for each day of WIT. This daily page will serve as an agenda for class and homework assignments.

7. Sign up for the WitNu-L mailing list. A message sent to this list goes to everyone who is a member. Signup at the list below.

http://lists.cuip.net/mailman/listinfo/witnu-l

INDIVIDUALLY

1. In web browser go to the url listed above.
2. Scroll down, find WitNu-L, click on link in left column.
3. On the resulting page, go down to third major section (marked by beige bars), called "Subscribing to WitNu-L".

4. Fill in the form. Notes on some form items:
The email address they give must be one they can read mail for in the WIT lab, and which they can send mail (reply) from.
The password fields are for picking one (not for matching one
already in the system) -- they should make up something they will remember. The answer to "Would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" should in almost all cases be No.

Press the Subscribe button to submit the form.

5. Go check your mail, at the address you gave.
6. You should receive a message from the Mailman system. (The subject line will be "confirm __" followed by a key number). This is not the Welcome message, it's the "confirm" message; you are not subscribed until you confirm.

To confirm your subscription, do a Reply to the confirm message. Do not change the address it's going to, do not change the Subject, do not add or edit anything in the message body ... just Reply and send off.

7. In a few minutes more you should receive another message. The subject line will begin with "Welcome ___". This means you have been successfully subscribed!

8. Our first module will be:

Using a Browser

Customizing Using Edit | Preferences

• Set or Change Home Page
• Set or Change Fonts, Colors, & Themes
• Go – History & Clearing
• Location Bar & Clearing

• Add: set or change search preferences.

Components

• Title Bar
• Menu Bar
• Toolbar Buttons & Navigation
• Directory Buttons (plus the Personal Tool Bar folder from bookmarks)
• Document (the webpage)
• Scroll Bars
• Status Bar

Navigation

• Text Links
• Image Links
• Add: Arrows on right of Back and Forward Buttons show a history list of session and can be used for navigation.

Bookmarks

• Why?
• Add
• Manage
• Delete
• Export
• Import
• What’s New?
  

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