Iota Homeroom, plans for July 8-10

Here are some of our activities for the first few days of class. We’ll see use it until we are ready to go on, which may be one day, or four.

I. Housekeeping and introduction (monitor off)

Introduce the members of the group

Class procedures

Timeliness

Signing in and out

Breaks—10 minutes at the end of each hour

Red cups used to get attention

Homeroom page with schedule (http://webinstituteforteachers.org/2003/homerooms/iota)

Site of the Day

List Serve for homeroom (witiota-L@lists.cuip.net)

List Serve for WIT (wit2003-L@lists.cuip.net)

Rules of WIT

Attendance related to stipend

Completion of acceptable WebQuest related to stipend

Stipend given partially at end of summer, rest after use of WebQuest in school

Follow-up sessions during the year

Schedule

Special presentations on Fridays

Site of the day talks

What the class has in store

Upgrading basic computer skills

Upgrading email skills

Upgrading skills in using the internet

Browsing, searching, using data bases, evaluating sites

Learning elementary skills in image processing

Learning to create web pages using Netscape Composer

Learning to publish and/or store material on Internet Servers

Using FTP

Using Composer publishing system

Creating and use a WebQuest

(monitor on)

II. Participants take WIT Preliminary Survey (http://webinstituteforteachers.org/2003/feedback/presurvey.php).

III. Participants subscribe to WIT email service

(monitor off)

IV. Getting Started with the Computer (rf. Module “Computer Basics”)

Mentor describes Getting Started with the computer using projector

Turning on and off

Mouse: left and right clicks; selecting; drag and drop

Desktop

Windows (expanding, contracting, canceling)

Using menus

Explain hard disk, floppy disk and CD structure on computer

Folders and files defined (rf. module “Files and Folders”)

File structure

Creating folders

Moving, copying and deleting files and folders (on hard disk and to floppies)

Start Button—Program Files, Search,

Shortcut on Desktop

Creating and saving documents (use Word for example)

Deleting, copying and moving documents

(monitor on)

Participants start computers, examine desktop, try a search, open Word, create a shortcut for Word or other program

Use right and left mouse clicks

(monitor off)

V. Introducing the concept of the Internet and the WWW (rf. Module

Communicating between computers through servers

Web of servers

Addresses

Downloading pages, files, programs

Types of communication

Web pages

Email

Chat rooms and instant messenging

Peer to peer transfer

Discuss with the class “Why use the Internet in Teaching” (rf. Module “Using the Internet in the Classroom”)

VI. Introduction to concept of browsers (rf. Module “Using a Browser”)

Show similarities and differences among Netscape, Internet Explorer and AOL browsers

(monitor on)

Participants find browsers in program files, make desktop shortcuts of Navigator and IE, practice with web addresses, going back and forward, clicking links,

(monitor off)

VII. Mentors talk about search engines, demonstrate basics of searching.

(monitor on)

Participants practice searching

(monitor off)

VIII. Mentors demonstrate Bookmarks (Navigator) and Favorites (IE)

Saving bookmarks for use on other computers.