Chronicle:
July 18, 2003
Vol 49 No. 45
Two interesting articles:
One on distance education for the poor, a new program at University of Maryland University College. Very tough acceptance policies. Students are able to access education remotely and for free. Most are women, most are black. They must be driven and educationally successful to some degree to be accepted.
Second on the tension between selfishness and altruism. Barash argues that biologically we are selfish but that "expressing that selfishness can result in a kind of group-oriented altruism" (B10). If we identify ourselves with family or with nation, we express it as group altruism, yet we are still thinking of ourselves.
Tuesday, July 15, 2003
Amy, here is a very manageable model for a literacy center, I think. The three domains make sense: creative writing, expository writing, ESL instruction. I wonder if we could get people in the community who identify themselves as writers to buy into a project like this and volunteer some time.
Wednesday, June 18, 2003
Dreamweaver course 6-17-03
* Create links either through modify, make link or through property bar at bottom (put url with http in)
* Can save excel files as tab delimited, import through file, import
* Layout view allows you to draw a table
* Always save before adding images
6-18-03
* Site is live: build and post
* Site design: create as a vita with teaching, research, service, honors, grants as primary pages
* White background, black text, orange and green design? or warm colors design red and orange, some yellow
* Could use image map as home page:
* Set all four margins in page properties
* Avoid frames because they complexify your site: use tables
* Accessibility: File, Check page, Check acessibility
* can have more than one site
* Build local sites and then connect sites to remote server
Ftp host: webdev.ndsu.nodak.edu
Host directory:
* Site: Check links sitewide
* orphaned file is not linked to the rest of the site?
* Use expand/collapse to see both sides of site (local and remote), then connect
* Need good meta tags to be found by search engines. Separate key words with commas
***Use web development materials on NDSU ITS site
6-19-03
CSS
* Get CSS dialog box/toolbar to show
* Use plus sign on page icon to add new style
* To edit HTML tag, need to know the html code for the thing you're changing
CSS Selector to alter link states (Hover, Active, Visited)
Dreamweaver has a function that will check which version of browser the viewer is using and then will give them a version of your pages that is appropriate (so you need to create more than one version of your site)
Export CSS styles to make a linked style sheet
* Create links either through modify, make link or through property bar at bottom (put url with http in)
* Can save excel files as tab delimited, import through file, import
* Layout view allows you to draw a table
* Always save before adding images
6-18-03
* Site is live: build and post
* Site design: create as a vita with teaching, research, service, honors, grants as primary pages
* White background, black text, orange and green design? or warm colors design red and orange, some yellow
* Could use image map as home page:
* Set all four margins in page properties
* Avoid frames because they complexify your site: use tables
* Accessibility: File, Check page, Check acessibility
* can have more than one site
* Build local sites and then connect sites to remote server
Ftp host: webdev.ndsu.nodak.edu
Host directory:
* Site: Check links sitewide
* orphaned file is not linked to the rest of the site?
* Use expand/collapse to see both sides of site (local and remote), then connect
* Need good meta tags to be found by search engines. Separate key words with commas
***Use web development materials on NDSU ITS site
6-19-03
CSS
* Get CSS dialog box/toolbar to show
* Use plus sign on page icon to add new style
* To edit HTML tag, need to know the html code for the thing you're changing
CSS Selector to alter link states (Hover, Active, Visited)
Dreamweaver has a function that will check which version of browser the viewer is using and then will give them a version of your pages that is appropriate (so you need to create more than one version of your site)
Export CSS styles to make a linked style sheet
Final project Advanced Writing Workshop: Have students fully explain their goals with the project and the factors they want me to use to grade the project
Teach advanced students about Images on Google, permissions, fair use in invention project section
Do some work with Invention and creativity
Set up TLC sessions right away for Invention project section
An advanced class should: introduce some theory, offer students more hands-on, more self-directed practice, help students add to their professional/creative portfolios, get students to move beyond "the basics" (perhaps we should talk about what the basics are in terms of defining)
Help all students get blogs for taking notes and keeping track of projects?
Teach advanced students about Images on Google, permissions, fair use in invention project section
Do some work with Invention and creativity
Set up TLC sessions right away for Invention project section
An advanced class should: introduce some theory, offer students more hands-on, more self-directed practice, help students add to their professional/creative portfolios, get students to move beyond "the basics" (perhaps we should talk about what the basics are in terms of defining)
Help all students get blogs for taking notes and keeping track of projects?
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
Dreamweaver course 6-17-03
* Create links either through modify, make link or through property bar at bottom (put url with http in)
* Can save excel files as tab delimited, import through file, import
* Layout view allows you to draw a table
* Always save before adding images
6-18-03
* Site is live: build and post
* Site design: create as a vita with teaching, research, service, honors, grants as primary pages
* White background, black text, orange and green design? or warm colors design red and orange, some yellow
* Could use image map as home page:
* Set all four margins in page properties
* Avoid frames because they complexify your site: use tables
* Accessibility: File, Check page, Check acessibility
* can have more than one site
* Build local sites and then connect sites to remote server
Ftp host: webdev.ndsu.nodak.edu
Host directory:
* Site: Check links sitewide
* Create links either through modify, make link or through property bar at bottom (put url with http in)
* Can save excel files as tab delimited, import through file, import
* Layout view allows you to draw a table
* Always save before adding images
6-18-03
* Site is live: build and post
* Site design: create as a vita with teaching, research, service, honors, grants as primary pages
* White background, black text, orange and green design? or warm colors design red and orange, some yellow
* Could use image map as home page:
* Set all four margins in page properties
* Avoid frames because they complexify your site: use tables
* Accessibility: File, Check page, Check acessibility
* can have more than one site
* Build local sites and then connect sites to remote server
Ftp host: webdev.ndsu.nodak.edu
Host directory:
* Site: Check links sitewide
Monday, June 16, 2003
Amy, if you need any online readings for your 700 level class this fall, check out Geoff Grabill's piece in Computers and Compositon: http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/english/cconline/grabill/Teaser202.htm.
Readings:
Deans Writing Partnerships
Isaacs Public Writing
Dewey Experience and Education
Cushman Rhetorician as Agent of Social Change
AAHE Writing the Community
Freire Pedagogy of Oppressed?
Jacoby collection?
Saltmarsh article?
Have class collaboratively develop a list of the central terms of the area. I could give them a starting point and they could add to it. Also, I could have them work to define the terms based on readings.
ethic of care
reciprocity
noblesse oblige
community literacy
community engagement
community service learning
civic rhetoric
community writing groups
public realm
cooperative education
experiential education
volunteerism
Readings:
Deans Writing Partnerships
Isaacs Public Writing
Dewey Experience and Education
Cushman Rhetorician as Agent of Social Change
AAHE Writing the Community
Freire Pedagogy of Oppressed?
Jacoby collection?
Saltmarsh article?
Have class collaboratively develop a list of the central terms of the area. I could give them a starting point and they could add to it. Also, I could have them work to define the terms based on readings.
ethic of care
reciprocity
noblesse oblige
community literacy
community engagement
community service learning
civic rhetoric
community writing groups
public realm
cooperative education
experiential education
volunteerism
Thursday, June 05, 2003
Dreamweaver Course 6-5-03
webdev.ndsu.nodak.edu
Directory: ndsu
amy.rupipertaggart
standard password
use plug icon to connect
Before using templates, plan which parts will be the same across pages, plan which you will want to change.
You will want to use templates, put in what you want to be uniform and static, then include editable regions, which is under the Insert dropdown, then Template Objects
Once you've saved a file "as template" you will need to just save to update it.
Got to build your site before applying templates.
Assets = font color and size, etc.
Use all lowercase on all files. Use all .htm.
Get your images to the right sizes in an image program, not in Dreamweaver.
Save file before putting images in
Put everything inside tables so you can keep alignment the way you want it.
webdev.ndsu.nodak.edu
Directory: ndsu
amy.rupipertaggart
standard password
use plug icon to connect
Before using templates, plan which parts will be the same across pages, plan which you will want to change.
You will want to use templates, put in what you want to be uniform and static, then include editable regions, which is under the Insert dropdown, then Template Objects
Once you've saved a file "as template" you will need to just save to update it.
Got to build your site before applying templates.
Assets = font color and size, etc.
Use all lowercase on all files. Use all .htm.
Get your images to the right sizes in an image program, not in Dreamweaver.
Save file before putting images in
Put everything inside tables so you can keep alignment the way you want it.
Wednesday, June 04, 2003
Dreamweaver course 6-4-03
* horizontal rules, can't control color, can control thickness
*
* horizontal rules, can't control color, can control thickness
*
v.
paragraph (white space between), break (no white space)
* use the relative font sizes so that the browsers will just add or subtract to get the size you want
* Definition lists for subpoints in bulleted list
* Use the text indent in a bulleted list to do subpoint
* copy/paste works, but you lose formatting and need to do code clean up
* Import best option
* Open File
* Save images in subfolder within
* Root folder is the top level
* Keep all files in same folder
* need to go back and choose my root folder
* need to call help desk to find out whether I need to FTP or use local network
* get and put files commands under sitemay not be reliable
* FTP host: webdev.ndsu.nodak.edu
Host Directory: ?
Login and password will come via email amy.rupipertaggart normal password
Don't create images in Dreamweaver. Create and save them and then bring them in.
jpg for photos. gifs for images that are images and text
Tuesday, June 03, 2003
hiya, Amy. I'm even getting the "LoFi" interface, just like you, but I'll see what happens when I log-in via a route other than your invitation.
I've been learning how to add some new features to my blog. Check out the blog I keep with Cindy and Sybil if you want to learn how to add a "comments" feature (not relevant till you go public, I suppose), and how to add a blog roll without hand coding each URL.
I've been learning how to add some new features to my blog. Check out the blog I keep with Cindy and Sybil if you want to learn how to add a "comments" feature (not relevant till you go public, I suppose), and how to add a blog roll without hand coding each URL.
Dreamweaver Course 6-3-03
* Site management tools are a benefit--keeps things synchronized for you
* Built in ftp: helps to manage keeping embedded files connected to your pages, reduces likelihood of broken images
* Sets up templates so your site is consistent throughout
* Dreamweaver has "behaviors" which allow for interactivity
* Test your site in multiple browsers, test on different platforms, as well
* Set up account on server through ITS (need password)
* Mac's going to look different: it will have pallettes.
* 30 seconds is the max load time you should have
* create 640X480 resolution so people can see whole page easily
* file names should be all lowercase for ease
* try F12 to open the page in the browser
* 8 character file names, no spaces, no hyphens, no underscores
Concepts for site: community and literacy
Could use the red, orange, yellow, robin's egg blue combination for the page design
* Site management tools are a benefit--keeps things synchronized for you
* Built in ftp: helps to manage keeping embedded files connected to your pages, reduces likelihood of broken images
* Sets up templates so your site is consistent throughout
* Dreamweaver has "behaviors" which allow for interactivity
* Test your site in multiple browsers, test on different platforms, as well
* Set up account on server through ITS (need password)
* Mac's going to look different: it will have pallettes.
* 30 seconds is the max load time you should have
* create 640X480 resolution so people can see whole page easily
* file names should be all lowercase for ease
* try F12 to open the page in the browser
* 8 character file names, no spaces, no hyphens, no underscores
Concepts for site: community and literacy
Could use the red, orange, yellow, robin's egg blue combination for the page design
So, what could the students learn about literacy?
* literacy is more complex than just reading and writing
* address the myth that literacy leads to success
* learning to switch literacies as you enter school, professional life
Things I need to learn about literacy:
* what adjustments do students make when they move from home to college?
* what kinds of tools and concepts do the students need to get by in college and community?
* literacy is more complex than just reading and writing
* address the myth that literacy leads to success
* learning to switch literacies as you enter school, professional life
Things I need to learn about literacy:
* what adjustments do students make when they move from home to college?
* what kinds of tools and concepts do the students need to get by in college and community?
On literacy and citizenship readings:
http://www.crosswinds.net/~marlerjc/omelas.html
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
What could we do with The Ones. It's such a powerful, haunting story, that I love reading it and thinking about it. It teaches about sacrifice, the sacrificial lamb, the scapegoat, the greater good, an awareness of those who are scapegoated for our good.
Connections with WWII: Jews were scapegoats in a society that was falling apart; where people were hungry and poor and wretched, and needed change.
Have students read. Have them think about (how?) what kinds of scapegoats make their comfort possible. Are they ever scapegoats for others' comfort?
What does it mean to be a literate citizen in this story? What knowledge do they need to be informed citizens?
Find a parallel story in the news and have them make connections. In other words, find something that suggests someone's suffering is for the good of others.
It would also be good to do a single style lesson with The Ones to connect it to writing explicitly as well as to the content goals.
Where do the ones who walk away go? What would your ideal community be like? Can you imagine ways to make the campus more ideal, more utopian?
Research and Citizenship:
How much do you need to know to be a voter?
How do you find the information?
How do you evaluate it?
What do you do with it?
Use assignment already written.
Add in-class debates to support particular candidates
Have each student give a one-minute spiel on a single candidate
Open the floor to debate
Ask whether anyone's changed his or her mind at the end of debates
If not, talk about why not
If so, what stimulated the change?
Try to tie this in with utopia. What would be your classroom utopia? Your only boundaries are that it has to continue to be a class where learning happens
What literacies do you bring with you?
assign students to these terms. Have them use two search engines and two databases and note how many sources they find. have them define the term they searched for.
What types of literacy are there?
* academic literacy
* community literacy
* professional literacy
* sports literacy
* music literacy
* media literacy
* cultural literacy
* global literacy
* computer literacy
* voter literacy
Anyone who comes up with an additional category with a definition gets a bonus point.
Utopian/Distopian Fiction:
* http://www.utoronto.ca/utopia/journal/index.html Society for Utopian Studies
http://www.crosswinds.net/~marlerjc/omelas.html
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
What could we do with The Ones. It's such a powerful, haunting story, that I love reading it and thinking about it. It teaches about sacrifice, the sacrificial lamb, the scapegoat, the greater good, an awareness of those who are scapegoated for our good.
Connections with WWII: Jews were scapegoats in a society that was falling apart; where people were hungry and poor and wretched, and needed change.
Have students read. Have them think about (how?) what kinds of scapegoats make their comfort possible. Are they ever scapegoats for others' comfort?
What does it mean to be a literate citizen in this story? What knowledge do they need to be informed citizens?
Find a parallel story in the news and have them make connections. In other words, find something that suggests someone's suffering is for the good of others.
It would also be good to do a single style lesson with The Ones to connect it to writing explicitly as well as to the content goals.
Where do the ones who walk away go? What would your ideal community be like? Can you imagine ways to make the campus more ideal, more utopian?
Research and Citizenship:
How much do you need to know to be a voter?
How do you find the information?
How do you evaluate it?
What do you do with it?
Use assignment already written.
Add in-class debates to support particular candidates
Have each student give a one-minute spiel on a single candidate
Open the floor to debate
Ask whether anyone's changed his or her mind at the end of debates
If not, talk about why not
If so, what stimulated the change?
Try to tie this in with utopia. What would be your classroom utopia? Your only boundaries are that it has to continue to be a class where learning happens
What literacies do you bring with you?
assign students to these terms. Have them use two search engines and two databases and note how many sources they find. have them define the term they searched for.
What types of literacy are there?
* academic literacy
* community literacy
* professional literacy
* sports literacy
* music literacy
* media literacy
* cultural literacy
* global literacy
* computer literacy
* voter literacy
Anyone who comes up with an additional category with a definition gets a bonus point.
Utopian/Distopian Fiction:
* http://www.utoronto.ca/utopia/journal/index.html Society for Utopian Studies