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.

Fauset/DuBois project

Next step, read more of the articles on social movement rhetoric, any pertaining to civil rights movement specifically. Apply to the Fauset, DuBois articles. Consider any deviations.

Dreamweaver course 6-4-03

* horizontal rules, can't control color, can control thickness
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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

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.

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

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?

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