Week 2 - Building Basics

Relevant Screencasts

Questions about this week's assignments?
Here is a two-part screencast providing more details
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
- login to your edublog
- login to your gmail
- login to efl537 and go to Week 2 page
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)

Let's turn the technology off and discuss

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

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

Programs
Html Editor

File Transfer

Screencasts

(Slightly) Advanced HTML

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

Update EFL 537.com profile (My account/ Profile)
Choose a license for your content, blog about your decision on EFL537.com
Choose your class tag (i.e joe537) and use it on all of this week's posts. What tag (keyword) will you use on all of your EFL537 related posts? Before choosing one, go to technorati advanced search and do a tag search to make sure no posts use that tag (yet).
Browse the blogosphere
Lists at: Class Blogmeister, International Edubloggers Directory , Blogbridge Listing
Search at Technorati, Google Blogs
More blog resources here
Many blog related materials can also be found in the EFLClassroom Ning

Blog about what you've read in the blogospshere on your Edublog (if you don't make it public, please post on your EFL537 blog as well)
(optional) Post a comment on someone's blog
Subscribe to at least three feeds using Google Reader
EFL Screencast here. Support here, additional Help screencasts - here and here
Give this a try - if you have lots of problems, set it aside and we'll discuss next class.
Post at least one reading (journal article, on LearningCall.net)
Post at least 5 links of interest on your Delicious
Del.icio.us Support - Help Section * EFL537 Screencast * Liz Davis Screencast
Experiment with creating and uploading web pages to your Worldbridges.info space. No specific assignement - just practice your html/ftp skills.
Post any questions in the 'How do you...' forum

Sites to check out::

Videos to think about

Terminology