Overview of today

• Progress reports
• Advanced uses of networks for education
• A video conference with Mike Holinga in Springfield
• Individual problem solving

Progress (regress) reports

• What's the most interesting or important thing about your project so far?

Advanced Uses of Networks for Education

• Use of the Web to support projects
  • The Noon Project pages

The Noon Project Pages

• Descriptions
• Pictures
• Links to other places
• Forms
• Downloadable programs

From surfing to serving

• Creating your own web pages
• Running your own server

Creating your own web pages

• HTML: HyperText Markup Language
• Beginning Guide to HTML
• HTML Editors

Putting your pages on a remote server

• FTP: File Transfer Protocol
• FTP clients (like Fetch)

Possible Project

• "North-South project": Judith Bennett's message from Australia

Differences between Northern and Southern Hemisphere

• Shadow direction
• Warm side of house
• Storm origination direction
• Water down a "plughole"
• Vines around a tree?
• Winter vacation destination

True?

• Collect evidence, especially for water down the drain and vines around trees

Others?

• are there others?

• Framework: Similarities and Differences

Extension to problem solving?

• Are there ways that the similarities and/or differences create problems? help solve problems?

• Principle: Diversity is a potential strength.

Networked multimedia

• Graphics
• Clickable maps
• Digitized Audio
  • Streamed audio (RealAudio)
• Digitized Video

Digitized Video

• Asynchronous
  • Streamed: Vosaic
• Synchronous
  • CU-SeeMe
  • Apple Conferencing

Web-based programming

• Forms
• Downloaded applications (and files with helper applications)
• Shockwave
• Java

Apple Conferencing with Mike Holinga

• Springfield District Technology coordinator

Next (last) meeting

• Saturday, May 4
• Final reports, written & oral