Week 2 - Building Basics

Relevant Screencasts


HTML & FTP Screencasts

Del.icio.us Guide

Questions about this week's assignments?
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Part 1 - Part 2


Week#2 links & assignments below.

Prepare your computer

  • Install Del.icio.us plugin for Firefox
  • Open Windows Explorer to your Root Directory, list view
  • Open Firefox and in separate tabs
  • We will do this together - Download & install Kompozer
  • Not doable tonight - disregard - Add a few 'search engines' to Firefox (at least Del.icio.us, Technorati, & Wikipedia)

Discussion

Let's turn the technology off and discuss

  • Class Approach, Instructor Style
  • Why we are here
  • Collaboration & Openness
  • Anxieties & Concerns

 

Skills Overview

Skill Groups
  • Html/FTP Publishing
     (Kompozer,  Filezilla)

  • CMS  Management  
    (Wordpress, Drupal,  Moodle Drupal)


  •  Media - graphics, audio, video
     (Irfanview, The Gimp, Audacity,  TeacherTube, Dotsub)

  • Presentations
    (Powerpoint, Impress, Google Docs)

  • Materials Development
    Hot Potatoes, Flash, Java
  • Info archiving and access
    tagging, taxonomy, filtering, searching

  • Collaborative Tools
    (Yugma, WizIQ, Nowlive,  google docs, skype)

  • Aggregation
     Google Reader, Miro,

  • Networking 
      Del.icio.us Diigo, Ning, Facebook

A Screencast Tour of  CALL Skills & Tools
  • Part 1 - Audio, Blogging, Browsers,  Chat, File Storage & Conversion, Graphics
  • Part 2 -  Html editors,  Interactive Media, Mapping, Media players,  Microblogging,  Mindmaps,  Presentations, & Telephony
  • Part 3 - RSS Readers, Screencasting, Social Bookmarking, Start Pages, Streaming,  Surveys, Utilities ,Video, Virtual Environments, & Wiki's.  
  • Part 4 - Word Processing, Tagging, Content Management Systems, Quiz & Game Creation, & Social Networking

Assignments

Questions about this week's assignments?
Here is a two-part screencast providing more details
Part 1 - Part 2

Sites to check out::
Videos to think about
Terminology