Return-Path: <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g3GGgtu26362; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:42:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:42:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <F73GsM2RDpTaYX4e9GM000084a0@hotmail.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Eric Appleton" <eric_appleton@hotmail.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2391] Re: Benefits X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 3133 Lines: 77 I mentioned earlier that the mini-grant helped my classes in other ways that in just having a web site for our education program. We publish a lot more student writing now because I have students do most of the work themselves. For example, in our Media Literacy class, students publish their own writing through a Blogger-driven site (http://www.blogger.com). We read aricles, have discussion, do writing excercises and publish our writing all in the same class period. Blogger allows students to log in and publish their writing without knowing HTML or having access to the main web site passwords. http://www.fortunesociety.org/media/ We have also helped students publish their own pages and sites a lot more than we were a year ago. I've realized that students can use HTML, Netscape Composer, or even MSWord to create a page. It can be very simple and involve no more skills than it would take to make a flyer in MSWord. As long as they know how to click "save as HTML." So, we do writing activities in preparation for creating a page (http://www.fortunesociety.org/computer/downloads/intro_cycle7_1.doc - You will need MSWord to see this file) and students have a page up in a day or two. I've realized that there are many ways to put a web site together and that you use whatever works for you and your students. You can use a simple wizard at Tripod.com or you can teach from scratch. In the end, you use whatever works for your students. Our web pages are published here. . . http://www.fortunesociety.org/virtualvisit/ I think it is important that students see their faces and their stories on your web site so they will know that it is theirs. It also should become part of a daily routine. An easy way to do this is to make it the home page for all computers in your center and then put useful links on the front page (to Hotmail/Yahoo, to search engines, to games, etc.) At this point, if a student or intern tells me, "We should have a link to such-and-such or we should have information on . . ," I can say "Good idea! How are you going to build it for us?" and help the student do it themselves. Eric >From: Jeff Carter <jcarter@worlded.org> >Reply-To: nifl-technology@nifl.gov >To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> >Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2388] Benefits >Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:15:48 -0400 (EDT) > >On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 05:20 PM, Eric Appleton wrote: > >>The greatest benefit of the mini-grant was >>what I >>learned in working with my students on the project. This isn't really >>apparent in the education web site, but it has shown up in many >>improvements >>on the computer lab site and how the site has become central in what we >>do >>in computer classes. > >Eric, can you give us a few specific examples? > >Jeff > >Jeff Carter >World Education >Boston, MA >(617) 482-9485 >-------------- >e-mail: jcarter@worlded.org ><http://hub1.worlded.org/nelrctech> ><http://www.worlded.org> > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
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