January 29th and Friday the 30th

Watch video on http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f1592v1758

Do not try and create the file shown on the video.

After you watch the video, add an entry to your blog;explaining the importance of

1) Planning your website for optimal layout and organization

2) Defining a site

Please Please listen carefully to the video before trying to answer the questions. Many students listened to the first minute of this video and figured that they new what the guy was going to say. Each of these students were totally off topic and I could tell. This is an important video. Please listen to it twice to make sure that you get it. You should not leave this course with out understanding this.

Dream Weaver Lesson for Monday January 26th and Tuesday January 27th

By 10 minutes after the begining of class: Copy the link below, then paste the URL in a new post on your blog. Your blog post will be time stamped. Every minute that your post is late will cost you two points off of 100.

http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f1592v1759

Now, watch the video and follow the steps in the video to create your own document. You will need to work on two computers: One to watch the video and one to do your work in Dream Weaver. You access Dream Weaver from the start menu> Adobe Master Collection> Dream Weaver. Follow the steps throughout the video. Once you have completed the video and your file: 1) Change to Code View; 2) Copy the code from your file; 3) Post your work to your blog.

* Note: when you click publish to upload the code to your blog, you will get an error. Just click on the check box and click OK to publish.

Inspiration came to Lincoln HS (No Grade Taken for this)

Two friends (and former bosses) of mine, Joe Scheible and Jeff Smith came to school all day Wednesday to give inspiration to my students. Joe donated a laptop that I am giving to my highest scoring student on next weeks mid-term exam. Jeff gave a tremendously inspirational presentation to each of my classes. Jeff taught the students that because of the Internet, 1) The world is flat (distance is no longer an issue); 2) There is more opportunity to take advantage of; 3) There are more machines (computer devices) on the Web than there are people (and there are a lot of people). The students were riveted to Jeff's every word, and many are studying hard to win Joe's laptop. I will post the video of Jeff and my students on my teacher blog ( mrsstovall.blogspot.com ) as soon as I can find my firewire card for my laptop.

What is a Domain Name? Really?

Thank you all for your patience; Explanation for My not using blogspot for almost a month

Our class was to temporarily reside inside of the computer lab used by the Reconnect Program's students. Reconnect students are at risk students who are on their last chance to get back into school after a series of serious disciplinary issues. These guys don't make for the best classroom mates. The number of these students grew and grew until there weren't enough computers for all of the Reconnect students and mine. It also got very loud; one day I climbed on top of a filing cabinet, cupped my hands and yelled instructions. My student sitting three seats from the filing cabinet did not hear me.

With no end in site, I put my foot down and we got out of there. We moved around to different classrooms for about 10 days. Then I moved us into our new room. Unfortunately, our new room is not setup yet. It is very difficult to teach students without computers. We have some working computers now, but they don't have LAN School installed on them, so I can't control student access.

I hope and prey that our computers will be setup when we return from Thanksgiving. My students have been so patient - I appreciate that so much. After Thanksgiving, I intend to return to our routine of students checking my blog for instructions at the beginning of class and entering their work in their blogs.

Animated Internet

 Today we will review with them the Animated Internet lesson on how to connect to the net and why http://www.learnthenet.com/english/animate/animate.htm . This is a very important lesson that I  presented very well, but you all were too distracted to get it all; Some of you are also new students who weren't here when we did that lesson.  I will use the Lanschool features "Show Teacher to Students" and "Show Student to other Students" to  make the lesson interactive. In other words, I will show them something from my screen, ask a question and then hand over screen control to a student for them to demonstrate the answer. By playing this game with the lesson, I should be able to get away with doing it a second time. We need to know this material for the midterm exam.

Viewing Sourcecode

1. In Internet Explorer, follow the link below to Barack Obama's Louisiana page http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/lahome .
2. On the menu bar, click on the view menu and choose source.
3. The source code for the webpage will open in notepad.
4. Save the file to your desktop (notice the file name).
5. Close the file.
6. On your desktop, right click on the file (the one that you just closed).
7. Choose Open with from the menu, then choose Wordpad.
8. With the source code open in Wordpad, click on the Print Preview Icon (this is the Icon with a magnigying glass in front of a piece of paper; It is inbetween the printer icon and the binocular icon).

The purpose of viewing the source code in this way is for us to view page numbers, and thereby be able to go through the document together.

Our goal is to isolate the source code for the Louisiana page from the code that is repeated on each page.