| The third week, we will take a further
look at ways instructors can evaluate Web content themselves (cf. Michael Waugh's
assignment 2a) and help students to evaluate/validate the material they come across on the Web. They need to learn to ask themselves questions such as: Who made the page? Does the author have an agenda? Who is the page's intended audience?
To get an idea of what other schools are doing, check out the CyberFair
web pages on the Global Schoolnet Web site. GSN holds an annual contest
in which K-12 classes create sites and evaluate their peers' Web sites. Check out the on-line peer Web page evaluation GSN came up with for their own participants.
3a. Major Project status report:
There are only two weeks until your Major Projects
and presentations are due. In WebBoard, post a quickie update on
your progress by Monday (July 20), listing any problems you have been encountering.
There is still time for your peers, tech support people, and professor to
offer help and suggestions. Post your report into the WebBoard conference 387 3a. Major project status report.
3e. Technology miniworkshop 1: Adding Javascript to a Webpage
(We apologize for the out-of-order numbering; it was easier modifying the Webpage than the database! However, the Technology miniworkshop is in the right place.)
Run-of-the-mill Web pages in HTML script (what we've
been creating so far) are merely for presentation of information; they are not very interactive. The person who views the page can only view them passively and, at best, have the freedom to follow pre-arranged links of his/her choice. But by including within the HTML special instructions in another language called Javascript (a limited scripting language built into Netscape, not to be confused with Java, a full programming language), you can allow the viewer to respond to your page or use it to create (to "author") something new.
Even if you have never used Javascript, this is an easy introductory exercise. Here are more details about this Javascript miniworkshop.
More experienced Web authors among you may skip this exercise and investigate on their own ways JavaScript can make their on-line evaluation forms more interactive. Check out Yahoo!'s list of Javascript resources.
Submit the URL to your modified Javascript file to CTERbase as assignment 3e by July 24th. In the "Description" field, briefly describe what change you made.
3b. Article for reading and discussion:
Each person should try to choose a different article from the "Bibliography
on Evaluating Internet Resources" by N. Auer. Read the article by Wednesday (July 22) and post your response to the WebBoard conference 387 3b. Review of an article from Auer's biblio.
3c. Miniproject: Online Web Evaluation Form
Create an evaluation form for your students (or teachers, if you are a tech coordinator) to guide them in evaluating Web sites.
An example form has been done by Kathy Schrock. For comparison, check out a series of Webpage assessment forms by former EdPsy 387 student Steve Rutledge: one for content, one for graphics, and one for consistency/navigation. Or you could use the CARS
Checklist (Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, Support) if you prefer that from C&I 335 last month.
According to your degree of technical expertise on the Web, create one of the following:
a) a regular (HTML) Web page that your students can print out and use to assess Web pages (i.e. it contains no Javascript).
b) an on-line, Javascript-enabled evaluation sheet with answer blanks for students to fill in. The final evaluation is automatically constructed from their form input can be printed out. Be sure to code your evaluation page so that the page to be evaluated is opened in a separate window (i.e. the students can see the evaluation sheet and Web page simultaneously).
(You can adapt our sample bare numeric evaluation template or multi-style evaluation template if you're a beginner. Just delete the original text and fill in your own text around the Javascript areas.)
c) a CGI form or FileMaker Pro form which will return the data/responses from your students to you electronically (an example of this is the ICES form you filled out for CI 335).
Due by Thursday July 23. Post your on-line evaluation form to CTERbase as 3c with a URL to the evaluation form. Type in the Description field who the intended users of your form are and what kind of Web pages they are to evaluate.
3d. Technology miniworkshop 2: Adding audio narration to a PowerPoint presentation
By now, you should be familiar with creating a basic series of presentation "slides" in Powerpoint from the Orientation lecture the beginning of June. But did you know that you can add your own audio comments to your slides?
For this assignment, create one slide in a new PowerPoint presentation. Then select the "Narrate slide" menu choice, and then record a short narration using a microphone plugged into your computer. You can hear what you recorded by viewing the slide show. When you're happy with your narrated slide, save it, being sure to give it a name that ends in ".ppt".
Upload your one slide PowerPoint-with-narration file to your folder on the server and submit the URL for it to CTERbase as assignment 3d.
Due by Friday July 24.
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