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Workshop 1: Teaching and Technology: How and Why

1.  Introductory Web Issues

• Instructions on how to use the Webworkshop's newsgroup.
• Information on how to create your public_html directory.
• How to hide and remove files from your public_html directory.
• Take a look at a definition of the WWW provided by SiteServing.com.
• If you are having trouble with WWW jargon, see our short list of some WWW terminology .
• Another source of WWW jargon is available through Olin Library's Incorporating Web Resources into your Teaching and into Your Course Pages created by Ruth Lewis.
• Here is an example of an economics database available on the WWW.
• This is probably a site that you have used, the Wash U library link available on the WWW.
• The espn.com web site is an example of an entertainment link available on the WWW.
• Any Wash U student who is designing a web page should see Wash U "Style Guide for Web Publishing" page .
• Another important site is the Wash U Computer Policy page .

• A search engine with comprehensive categories.
• This search engine allows you to complete highly defined searches of the web.
• AltaVista - One of the oldest search engines online.
• Compiles folders to narrow your search of the web.
• Finds your search term based on how many links exist to a page from other pages.
• Dogpile - A meta-search engine that will search for your term in a number of other search engines like those listed above.

• Ruth Lewis at Olin Library has developed a very helpful segment within her page "Incorporating Web Resources into your Teaching and into Your Course Pages" on searching and search engines on the web .
• University of California Berkeley's useful tutorial for finding information on the internet, especially their section on individual search engines .

• Barry's Clipart Server is a large site containing free images. Be sure to read their terms of use before using images. There is also a link to a comprehensive list of other sites which offer free clip art and images.
• Voice of the Shuttle at the University of California, Santa Cruz has a large selection of links to web sites in the humanities.
• The World Lecture Hall at the University of Texas at Austin  has an extensive catalog of course sites from all over the world. Every discipline you could want is represented!
• TWIST a project at the University of Iowa Libraries that develops innovative course sites for teachers, professors, and instructors. Click on the link "TWISTed Pairs" for a list of course sites the project has created.
• MIT's OpenCourseWare Project plans to make all of its course material freely available via the world wide web within the next decade. This web page provides information on the project and its funding plus links to currently available course material.

1.  Course Site Construction Tutorials

• Summer 2002 tutorial (click on link or see Workshop 2)
• University of North Texas' tutorials for developing web pages

This page has links to a number of tutorials for different HTML editors, including Netscape Composer. They have a very nice reference sheet for all of the buttons on the toolbar in Netscape Composer.
• Composer Tips from CNET.com

A detailed list of tips on how to make Netscape Composer web pages.

• Yale Style Manual

Perhaps the best style guide for the web available. This content-rich site includes chapters on: Interface Design , Site Design , Page Design , Web Graphics , and  Web Multimedia and Animation . Don't miss valuable tips on organizing and chunking information, design and visual logic, backward compatibility, using tables for page layout , and everything you ever needed to know about graphics.
• About.com Guide to Web Design

Truly exhaustive database for all your web design needs. Links to photo galleries, clip art, graphic design tips, multimedia applications, etc.
• Dmitry's Design Lab

Very interesting and original tips including "Designing for Search Engines".
• Art and the Zen of Web Sites

For the more eastern-minded. Humorous and insightful "quotes" and tips.
• Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design

Jakob Nielsen provides ten tips novices should be sure to heed.
• WebSter's Dictionary

Need help with typos? This program provides a forms-based gateway to a spell checker for WWW documents.
• Web Style at DeVry of Phoenix

This site offers a comprehensive list of links to various style manuals and articles on tips for creating a stylish web page for yourself, for business, and for general use.
• Top 10 Ways to Make A WWW Flop

A list written by Dr T.Matthew Ciolek. It was originally published in LAN Magazine. This brief article gives a comprehensive list of what to avoid when making a new web document.
• B1FF's K3WL Home Page

An example home page that incorporates all of the elements you do NOT want to have in your web page. A detailed analysis of what went wrong is also available here .
• hIdaho Design's Color Center

Frustrated with the color on your web page? Test out combinations of web page colors at one place! This Color Center lets you chose colors and gives you the codes to plug into your page properties.

• Yahoo! category: Web Authoring Tools

Want to move beyond Netscape Composer? Take a look at this exhaustive category at Yahoo! of sites for HTML editors currently available (including FrontPage and PageMill ). Divided by platform.
• WWW Course Creation Sites

Collection of HTML editors developed specifically for educators, including Web Course in a Box .
• Barebones guide to HTML

Want to try creating a page in HTML and avoid the editors like Netscape Composer? Try downloading this tutorial. Also available in languages other than English.

1.  Enhancing your Course Site

• Password Protecting a Directory - check out these recently discovered instructions.
• To create a newsgroup at Washington University through the Office of the Network Coordinator send an e-mail to requests@news.wustl.edu .
• To start a listserv at Washington University fill out a form through Arts and Sciences Computing .

• Tutorial on web-based activities provided by Washington University's own Language and Instructional Media Center (LIMC). Most useful for language courses. The links to a few of the examples don't work, but the site contains some great information and examples.
• Teaching with the Web

A compilation of ideas for using WWW resources as a language teaching tool. It also offers links to sites
that have pedagogical information. Developed by Lauren Rosen.

• Class Handout: Challenges in Managing a Technology-enhanced Course
  This handout includes the six challenges to managing our new course sites that we will discuss in class on the day of workshop 3.
• SyllabusWeb

Syllabus Press a division of 101communications, LLC, based in San Jose, Calif., produces information products that cover technology use in the high school, college, and university curriculum. Syllabus Press' primary products are Syllabus magazine, the annual Syllabus conference, and regional Syllabus workshops.

• Make sure that students can critically evaluate online materials. For a checklist on evaluating online information, see Olin Library's checklist for evaluating online information .
• Citing Web sources in student work is somewhat discipline specific. A few sites that provide guides on how to document sources:
• Olin Library has a page dedicated to examples of citations based on various style guides that will aid students when citing online sources. Their site also provides information for different disciplines and organizes links to outside sources.
• The Bedford Handbook companion site will take you to advice about finding sources in different disciplines and documenting sources in MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE styles.

1.  University Web Page Style Guidelines

• Any Wash U student who is designing a web page should see Wash U "Style Guide for Web Publishing" page .
• Another important site is the Wash U Computer Policy page .

• One good resource for grad students is the Wash U Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Career Development Resources page .
• For a list of some graduate student professional pages, click here .
• If you would like an example of a professional page that incorporates many "best practices", take a look at former Liberman Fellow James Marton's professional page or current Liberman Fellow Kamaal Haque's professional page .

• To download a free copy of  WS_FTP for a PC, click here .

1. General Information

• GradLab Online Lecture Project

The GradLab Online Lecture Project contains brief tutorials on Microsoft PowerPoint 97, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier, QuickTime, and Flash.  It also contains example of online lectures.
• Distance Education Clearinghouse

From the University of Wisconsin-Extension Service
• Distance Learning Resource Network

Disseminates information from and for educators, administrators, policymakers and parents interested in the effective implementation of distance education.
• Institute for Distance Education

Supported and administered by University of Maryland University College.
• White Pine's Web Resources for Educators

A small sample of what's available for educators on the Internet.
• Jones University

The first fully accredited online university.
• Walden University

An online university that specializes in graduate education.

• The Internet Poetry Archive produced by the University of North Carolina (Real Audio)
• The Howard Hughes Medical Institute Holiday Lectures on Science Program (Real Video)
• The Neurolist Cyber-Lecture " Two Cases of Weakness " from the Medical College of Georgia (Real Video)
• Robert Olen Butler's Inside Creative Writing at Florida State University (Real Video)
• University of Oxford's Virtual Chemistry Laboratory (Quicktime)
• Princeton's Alumni Development Lecture (Real Video)
• Becoming Human : Paleoanthropology, Evolution and Human Origins (Flash)
• The CNN Perspective Series - Millennium (Flash)
• Tempus Fugit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Flash)
• GradLab Online Lecture Project

• www.real.com

This is the homepage for the RealNetworks, developers of the RealPlayer , RealProducer , and RealServer .  Users may download the most recent version of RealPlayer for free.  Products for generating Real content are available for purchase.
• timecast

The RealAudio and RealVideo media guide.
• Macromedia's Flash

The Flash software allows you to create an animated online lecture with audio.
• QuickTime

Apple's QuickTime allows you to play video or still-frame images in a slide show style presentation with audio.