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Greetings, I wanted to thank you for helping me have so
much fun presenting our workshop on Tuesday. Your
evaluation indicated that it was of value to you as well
and I look forward to working with you again.
One thing that occured to
me on the plane this morning was the I never gave you the
URLs that we had discussed. So I will includ them here.
Take care and wish for sunshine.
-- dave --
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I was thinking
that I may have forgotten to give you the URL for
the site where you can download the training
materials for Internet training. That URL is:
ftp://ftp.advanced.org/pub/thinkquest/workshops/index.html
Also, MaryAnn
Bennett, one of the workshop attendees, had
mentioned a graphics program for the Macintosh
that had worked very well with her students. I
just got a e-mail from MaryAnn describing that
product. Here is the text of the e-mail:
Date:
Sun, 1 Feb 1998 21:56:11 -0500 (EST)
To: david@gsn.org
From: MaryAnn Bennett
<maryannb@sover.net>
Subject: photomaker software
I attended your workshop in Chester, VT last
week. You asked me to send you a note about
the "PhotoMaker" software. It is
published by MacSoft. When I bought it a
couple of years I got it was $25 for the
first copy and $12.50 for the additional
copies. I have found it to be very useful
with students especially on machines with
small hard drives and not much RAM. Thanks
for an interesting workshop.
MaryAnn Bennett
Leland & Gray UHS
P.O. Box 128
Townshend, VT 05353
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URLs
Searching the Internet
Remember that searching the Internet is a process and
not a one step thing. The following is only
a model for beginning the development of your search
skills. Also, remember the search tool that I have
on the Internet at:
http://www.landmark-project.com/search/
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tart with a small
database search tool -- Yahoo |
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Conduct
this search to get a grasp on the types of
resources that a available on the Internet. Yahoo
will give you a very good representation. This
gives you a chance to identify both the good and
bad hits you will be getting and a chance to
identify the keywords that are common to both the
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dit search phrase as a result |
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Create
a boolean search expression from the common words discovered in
your Yahoo search. Ex:
(Earthquake OR seismology) NOT (engineer OR
prediction OR individual) |
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dvance into a large
database search engine -- Altavista or Excit |
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Use
your edited search expression on a large database
such as Alta Vista or Excite. |
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efine search phrase |
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Again,
examine the good and bad hits, identify more key
words and incorporte them in your search expression...refine your search phrase. |
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ycle back and Advance again |
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Pretty
clear! |
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arvest resources |
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Evaluating Web Sites Remember
that we talked about evaluating web sites based on the
goals that you are your students have established for
their information products. There are a number of files
that are available to you for evaluating web resources in
just this way.
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Planning a Web Site
Establish
Goals
Audience
Behavioral
Objectives
Identify
Information & Processing Procedures
Set
Timeline
Get
to work
Design,
implement,
evaluate,
and
Refine
Elements
of Design
- Goals,
Goals, Goals
- Graphics,
White Space & Information Layout
- Balance
Content & Presentation
- Menu Size
- Page Size
- Facilitate
Review & Feedback
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