January 26, 1995
Educational Activities on Electronic Networks
But first ...

• please check out each link in:
  • your favorite web place
  • your favorite personal web page
• identify your picture

Judi Harris'
Project activity structures

• Interpersonal Exchanges
• Information Collections
• Problem-Solving Projects

Interpersonal Exchanges

• Keypals
• Global classrooms
• Electronic appearances
• Electronic mentoring
• Impersonations

Information Collections

• Information Exchanges
• Database Creation
• Electronic Publishing
• Tele-Fieldtrips
• Pooled Data Analysis

Problem-Solving Projects

• Information Searches
• Parallel Problem-Solving
• Electronic Process Writing
• Serial Creations
• Simulations
• Social Action Projects

Stages of Educational Network Projects

• Proposal
• Refinement
• Organization
• Pursuit
• Wrap-up
• Publication

Your own personal web page

• Edit template or create your own
• Edit picture

Accessing your folder

• Apple file sharing
• FTP

Apple File Sharing

• Apple
• Chooser
• Appleshare
• Education zone
• Teleapprentice
• Your name
• Your password
• Navigate down to your folder

"Alias shortcut"

• When you see your folder, select it
• File menu
• "Make Alias" choice
• Move to your own floppy disk
• In the future, put in your floppy disk and double click on the alias

FTP

File
Transfer
Protocol

Use your favorite FTP program

• Connect to: www.ed.uiuc.edu
• Login: your name
• Password: your password
• Navigate down to your folder
• To store a file on the remote server, PUT it
• To retrieve a file, GET it

HTML development

• Store and test the file locally
• When it's done, transfer it to the server
• Link it in

For next week:

• Identify your picture
• Crop and convert it to .GIF
• Create your own personal web page
• Read Krol, Chapters 2 & 6