ePortfolios & Network-based Projects
Multimedia eportfolios and annotation tools Chris Halter Brittany Noack Alec Barron
Your project proposals How will you determine whether your web site will accomplish the goals you have for it? Evaluative part of your major project: I want you to pilot test some ways of determining the impact of your use of technology to improve learning and/or teaching
Web-based Educational Projects
Designing a web site A web site is just one or more interlinked web pages To create a web site, you create one or more web page files that you interlink Drawing a picture of the web site “Storyboarding” each web page
Guidelines for Network-based Projects Levin, Waugh, & Smith: 6 steps Harris: 8 steps Riel: 5 steps Rogers, Andres, Jacks, & Clauset CCT TERC
The Dynamics of Network Projects Stages –Proposal –Refinement –Organization –Pursuit –Wrap-up –Publication
Dynamic support for network projects Educational Network Project Planning AssistantEducational Network Project Planning Assistant –Proposal prompterProposal prompter –Subject header contextualizerSubject header contextualizer –“Keeping things alive” message assistant-“Keeping things alive” message assistant- Collaborative Spaces: web project sites, MOOs (i.e. TAPPED IN), etc.TAPPED IN
Our next meeting Wednesday, 5pm Snacks: Jennifer & Shivani Thanks to Carrie & Rachel To do during lab time: –Site management, storyboarding, etc. –demonstration of other ways to publish your web pages –cache issues –finish publishing your two web pages
A special link: mailto: Besides "absolute" and "relative" links, there are "mailto:" links On your personal web pages, need to change the underlying link as well as the "surface" address for it to work (ie. right now, if you click on many of your addresses, it will send to:
Epublishing methods Built-in FTP (into Dreamweaver or FrontPage) FTP via web browser Separate FTP application File sharing –Mac: Finder -> Go -> Connect to server
Breaktime!