Log on to your email and open the email from Barack Obama "The debate and what's next". Click on the link "Find a Debate Watch Party in your area and RSVP today." Find an upcoming debate watching party in your area (just enter your zipcode). You may RSVP if you would like. If you would like to have a debate watching party of your own at your favorite hangout (one with a TV), click "Host an event" link on the right webpage frame and create your own party. If you create your own debate watching party, please post a link to your party on a comment for this post.
This should take you 10 minutes. When you are finished, you may begin working on today's assignment "The computer and the Internet."
Monday, September 29, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
The Computer and the Internet
The following assignment is due on Wednesday October 1st for 5th-8th periods, and Thursday October 2nd for 1st-4th .
Assignment: You have been hired to work with the Golden Oaks Retirement Home in training their residents on how to use the Internet and what it is. These folks grew up way before computers and they really have no idea how they work or how to use them to find information. It is your job to make a presentation to them to show them 1) What is it that the net can do for them (what can they do on the net)? What is the Internet? What is an Intranet?
2) What will it take to get them connected to the Internet - what equipment will they need? What should they consider when buying a computer to access the Internet ( RAM, hard disk capacity, CPU speed) and what will they need to connect to the Internet (hardware & software)? Who will they need to contact? Consider that they are one of several retirement homes that might want to connect together; for this discuss What is the Internet? What is an Intranet? What is a WAN and a LAN?
3) How can they create their own website with their own name.com. What is HTML? Source Code? What would they need to do to publish their own website? What is a URL?
Directions
1. Get into groups of three. You assign each group member a role. One person is the recorder, one person is the researcher, and one person creates the presentation.
2. Use PowerPoint to create your final project. You can be creative, but remember that you need to keep your audience in mind. In other words, keep it simple. Also, think of who you are and why you are talking to these people - are you a salesman, do you work for the nursing home?
3. The following topics must be researched and included in your presentation:
Use vocabulary related to Web Mastering and delineate between the Internet and an Intranet (indicate the exact line between them; when you are doing something, are you using the Internet or Intranet).
4. Grading for this project will be based on the attached rubric.
Research Sources:
http://www.internet101.org/internet101.html
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/animate/animate.htm
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Education/Internet/Help_and_Tutorials/Internet_Beginners_Guides/
Assignment: You have been hired to work with the Golden Oaks Retirement Home in training their residents on how to use the Internet and what it is. These folks grew up way before computers and they really have no idea how they work or how to use them to find information. It is your job to make a presentation to them to show them 1) What is it that the net can do for them (what can they do on the net)? What is the Internet? What is an Intranet?
2) What will it take to get them connected to the Internet - what equipment will they need? What should they consider when buying a computer to access the Internet ( RAM, hard disk capacity, CPU speed) and what will they need to connect to the Internet (hardware & software)? Who will they need to contact? Consider that they are one of several retirement homes that might want to connect together; for this discuss What is the Internet? What is an Intranet? What is a WAN and a LAN?
3) How can they create their own website with their own name.com. What is HTML? Source Code? What would they need to do to publish their own website? What is a URL?
Directions
1. Get into groups of three. You assign each group member a role. One person is the recorder, one person is the researcher, and one person creates the presentation.
2. Use PowerPoint to create your final project. You can be creative, but remember that you need to keep your audience in mind. In other words, keep it simple. Also, think of who you are and why you are talking to these people - are you a salesman, do you work for the nursing home?
3. The following topics must be researched and included in your presentation:
Use vocabulary related to Web Mastering and delineate between the Internet and an Intranet (indicate the exact line between them; when you are doing something, are you using the Internet or Intranet).
4. Grading for this project will be based on the attached rubric.
Research Sources:
http://www.internet101.org/internet101.html
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/animate/animate.htm
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Education/Internet/Help_and_Tutorials/Internet_Beginners_Guides/
Thursday, September 25, 2008
How a computer works and Copyright
Blog/Bell Work:
The class will take a http://copyrightkids.org quiz together. I will give you the URL; we will all pull up the quiz at the same time, but will not guess at any answers (Don't click any of the radio buttons or the submit button). I will propose the question to the class. Then I will take a show of hands on who thinks each answer is correct. I may also ask students to volunteer their opinion on why each answer is right or wrong.
The How a Computer Works video was cancelled as we could not access it.
The class will take a http://copyrightkids.org quiz together. I will give you the URL; we will all pull up the quiz at the same time, but will not guess at any answers (Don't click any of the radio buttons or the submit button). I will propose the question to the class. Then I will take a show of hands on who thinks each answer is correct. I may also ask students to volunteer their opinion on why each answer is right or wrong.
The How a Computer Works video was cancelled as we could not access it.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
COPYRIGHT LAW
COPYRIGHT LAW Read the copyright document at the following URL http://library.williams.edu/copyright.php . Also read, http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/midnightsun.html. In a new blog post, answer these questions: Do the copyright laws pertain to what happened to Stephanie Meyers book, Midnight Sun?
Monday, September 22, 2008
Tin Hat Internet Baics
INTERNET BASICS
Go to (in an Internet Explorer browser window, type or copy and paste the following URL into the address box) http://www.tinhat.com/internet_basics/how_the_internet_works.html
In a new post on your blog, answer:
1. What do Jelly Beans in this story represent? (I'm looking for two words d____ p_____)
2. Explain the significance of the writing on the Jelly beans; in other words, on the thing that the Jelly Beans represent (d____ p_____), explain:
4. David is the only one pretending to be this kind of equipment, but are there more pieces of equipment like this in the game they are playing? Is there only one of these on the Internet or are there more? Where do you think they are and what do they do?
5. How is the Internet Resillient? How does this resillience relate to streaming video that we talked about on learnthenet.com (hint: something to do with why your video pauses or freezes).
How is does the Internet's use of DNS relate to the way the postal service routes our mail?
Go to (in an Internet Explorer browser window, type or copy and paste the following URL into the address box) http://www.tinhat.com/internet_basics/how_the_internet_works.html
In a new post on your blog, answer:
1. What do Jelly Beans in this story represent? (I'm looking for two words d____ p_____)
2. Explain the significance of the writing on the Jelly beans; in other words, on the thing that the Jelly Beans represent (d____ p_____), explain:
- What the writing is
- How they use it
- How the writing relates to it's name
4. David is the only one pretending to be this kind of equipment, but are there more pieces of equipment like this in the game they are playing? Is there only one of these on the Internet or are there more? Where do you think they are and what do they do?
5. How is the Internet Resillient? How does this resillience relate to streaming video that we talked about on learnthenet.com (hint: something to do with why your video pauses or freezes).
How is does the Internet's use of DNS relate to the way the postal service routes our mail?
September 22nd - how to connect and why
Go to http://learnthenet.com/english/animate/connect.html
Create a Blog entry with the following title:
How to connect to the net and why.
Create a Blog entry with the following title:
How to connect to the net and why.
Vocabulary
FTP - File Transfer Protocol: a software protocol for exchanging information between computers over a network.
Server - a computer that makes services, as access to data files, programs, and peripheral devices, available to workstations on a network.
Webserver - A computer program that is responsible for accepting [] requests from web clients, which are known as web browsers, and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data contents, which usually are web pages such as HTML documents and linked objects (images, etc.).
Domain name is a name given to a collection of network devices that belong to a domain which is an administrative space managed according to some common characteristics of the members. For example, the computers of a corporate network running Windows NT services are said to belong to a domain (NT domain). In particular, the term domain name is best known in connection with the Internet where it describes the regions of administrative authority within the Domain Name System, the facility to locate resources on the Internet.
HTML
HyperText Markup Language: a set of standards, a variety of SGML, used to tag the elements of a hypertext document. It is the standard protocol for formatting and displaying documents on the World Wide Web.
HTTP
hypertext transfer protocol: the standard protocol for transferring hypertext documents on the World Wide Web.
Upload
To transfer (data or programs), usually from a peripheral computer or device to a central, often remote computer.
ISP Internet service provider is a company which primarily offers their customers access to the Internet using dial-up or other means of data telecommunication. ISPs may provide Internet e-mail accounts to users which allow them to communicate with one another by sending and receiving electronic messages through their ISPs' servers.
URL
1.Uniform Resource Locator: a protocol for specifying addresses on the Internet.
2.an address that identifies a particular file on the Internet, usually consisting of the protocol, as http, followed by the domain name.
Server - a computer that makes services, as access to data files, programs, and peripheral devices, available to workstations on a network.
Webserver - A computer program that is responsible for accepting [] requests from web clients, which are known as web browsers, and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data contents, which usually are web pages such as HTML documents and linked objects (images, etc.).
Domain name is a name given to a collection of network devices that belong to a domain which is an administrative space managed according to some common characteristics of the members. For example, the computers of a corporate network running Windows NT services are said to belong to a domain (NT domain). In particular, the term domain name is best known in connection with the Internet where it describes the regions of administrative authority within the Domain Name System, the facility to locate resources on the Internet.
HTML
HyperText Markup Language: a set of standards, a variety of SGML, used to tag the elements of a hypertext document. It is the standard protocol for formatting and displaying documents on the World Wide Web.
HTTP
hypertext transfer protocol: the standard protocol for transferring hypertext documents on the World Wide Web.
Upload
To transfer (data or programs), usually from a peripheral computer or device to a central, often remote computer.
ISP Internet service provider is a company which primarily offers their customers access to the Internet using dial-up or other means of data telecommunication. ISPs may provide Internet e-mail accounts to users which allow them to communicate with one another by sending and receiving electronic messages through their ISPs' servers.
URL
1.Uniform Resource Locator: a protocol for specifying addresses on the Internet.
2.an address that identifies a particular file on the Internet, usually consisting of the protocol, as http, followed by the domain name.
First day of class
On the first day of class, each student will create a yahoo email account (if they do not already have an email account) and a blogspot.com account. Sign up on bararackobama.com.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Daily Bell/Blog Work
At the beginning of each class period for 10 minutes, students will type an entry into their blog. This is called Bell / Blog work. In order for an entry to be counted toward your grade, it must concern a question I have posted on my website.
Students will use proper English in their blog entries. Grammatical errors will not be counted off of this daily blog grade, however students should respond to my guidance (that I will post in the comments section under any student posting needing guidance) on their blog with an acknowledgment (Students should post these in a subsequent comment).
Students will use the subsequent 5 minutes, to review blog entries of their schoolmates and will make appropriate comments and suggestions in thier schoolmate’s blogs. Students may access links to their classmate’s blogs through the Student Blog Sites link on my website. These comment must concern the question of the day and be of a technical or grammatical nature; Students who make comments on their own blog or other student’s blogs that are not technical or grammatical nature will be counted against the student’s Bell / Blog Work grade. Any student that has presented a question in their blog post that they want their schoolmates to respond to, may draw attention to their post by posting a Help Request through the Help Request link on my website www.mrsstovall.com. During this time, students should check the Student Help Request link on my website to see if one of their schoolmates has requested help.
If the student is absent, he will still be responsible for his daily blog. If the student does not have access to a computer to complete this task from home on the day of the absence, he will have 3 days after his return to school to attend my afternoon tutorial session to make a blog entry. He will label this “Make up blog entry for xx/mm/yyyy.
Students will use proper English in their blog entries. Grammatical errors will not be counted off of this daily blog grade, however students should respond to my guidance (that I will post in the comments section under any student posting needing guidance) on their blog with an acknowledgment (Students should post these in a subsequent comment).
Students will use the subsequent 5 minutes, to review blog entries of their schoolmates and will make appropriate comments and suggestions in thier schoolmate’s blogs. Students may access links to their classmate’s blogs through the Student Blog Sites link on my website. These comment must concern the question of the day and be of a technical or grammatical nature; Students who make comments on their own blog or other student’s blogs that are not technical or grammatical nature will be counted against the student’s Bell / Blog Work grade. Any student that has presented a question in their blog post that they want their schoolmates to respond to, may draw attention to their post by posting a Help Request through the Help Request link on my website www.mrsstovall.com. During this time, students should check the Student Help Request link on my website to see if one of their schoolmates has requested help.
If the student is absent, he will still be responsible for his daily blog. If the student does not have access to a computer to complete this task from home on the day of the absence, he will have 3 days after his return to school to attend my afternoon tutorial session to make a blog entry. He will label this “Make up blog entry for xx/mm/yyyy.
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