Squidoo for You

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Squidoo for You?

• Your Guide Helen Teague
• http//4oops.com
• Our Objective
• Discover great teaching options in a multimedia
  format similar to a blog but more fun! Then,
  create your own Squidoo, ready for Monday
  mornings class.

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Student Learning Preferences
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?Kvavik, 2004
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So You Want to Be an Author

• What is the purpose of creating a Web page?
• Delivery of information?
• Instructional-based resources?
• Educational activities/materials?
• Promote classroom activities?
• And more
• What is your targeted audience?
• Is this the best form of delivery?

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Steps in Web Development

• Gather information
• Examine other web sites
• Determine your audience
• Teachers?
• Parents?
• Students?
• Create a flowchart or story board
• Think about the flow of information

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Creating a Flowchart
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Steps in Web Development

• Develop good navigational tools
• Make navigating easy
• Redundancy is the key
• Utilize good design
• Frames or no frames
• Placement of men

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Steps in Web Development

• Post Your Web Site Free or Fee?
• Free
• Advertisement on Web page
• Some services and resources
• Fee
• Services and resources
• Register
• Individual Search engine sites
• Shot Gun Approach
• Sometimes there is a fee

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Top Tips To a Better Web Site

• Index (Homepage) Page
• The first paragraph should answer the "5 W's"
  basically telling them who you are and what
  you're offering.
• You need to answer these questions and do it
  fast. Surfers are a very impatient group. Stop
  them before they click away.

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Top Tips To a Better Web Site

• Navigation
• Keep it simple (KISS)
• Make sure it's consistent from page to page
• No matter where you place your menu bar -- either
  at the top or down the side -- always include a
  small text menu at the bottom of every page.
• If you're one of those people easily impressed
  with Flash, don't design your navigation with it.
  There are still some people who don't have or
  want the plug-in, so they won't be able to
  navigate your site. Besides, search engine
  spiders can't read it, so won't be able to spider
  the individual pages of your site if the
  navigation is done in Flash.

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Top Tips To a Better Web Site

• Logos Graphics
• Please keep your graphics down to a reasonable
  size.
• Large files can affect downloading
• Know which graphic formats to use.
• GIF (cartoons, logos, etc.)
• JPEG (photos)
• If you must use a lot of graphics
• Think Compression

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Top Tips To a Better Web Site

• Fonts
• Stay with the standard fonts that everyone has
  installed on their computers
• Such as Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman
• Otherwise, the viewer won't see your fonts as
  intended.
• Your users' computers will display your site in
  their default fonts.
• If you must have a certain font used you'll have
  to turn it into a graphic to maintain its look.

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Top Tips To a Better Web Site

• Make It Sticky
• Know your audience
• Include content and resources that appeal to your
  audience
• Include interactive features if possible.
• Use chat rooms, discussion boards, etc.
• You want to create a sense of community where
  people will want to return.

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Top Tips To a Better Web Site

• Contact Information
• Post your contact info at the bottom of every
  page of your site, along with your email address.
  
• Include your email address, hotlinked and ready
  to go.

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Web Page Design

• Alignment
• Dont mix alignments.
• Proximity
• Keep headlines close to the text.
• Keep captions close to images.
• Be conscious of the spacing.
• Repetition
• Repeat the same elements throughout each of the
  web pages.

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Why Squidoo???

• Blogs are fun, but...
• May be blocked by school filters
• Squidoos are fun and...
• Often not blocked
• More interactive features
• More options for cool add-ins
• ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

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Make Your Own!
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Make Your Own!
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Make Your Own!
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Make Your Own!
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Make Your Own!
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De ja vu all over again???

• It will carry education as it does music to the
  backwoods, isolated farms and into the mountains
  of Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia. The
  limitations of "the little red schoolhouse" will
  pass away the country schoolteacher will be
  reinforced by college professors and other
  specialists. It will be an institution of
  learning as well as a medium for entertainment
  and communication.

New York Times, February 24, 1923 On the
expected use of Radio in education.
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Technology in the Classroom

• Learning Occurs by
• Informing
• Researching
• Communicating
• Constructing
• Reflecting
• Doing

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What We Know...

• Choice is the Answer to the Question of Readiness
• Students are different
• Learners have to be ready to learn
• Learning styles vary
• Multiple intelligences abound
• Mind styles are unique
• Inclusion is important

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Technology Integration

• Does the technology aid the K-12 student in
  constructing and mastering knowledge in a content
  area?

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It Does Make A Difference!

• Technology turns California school around,
  officials saySacramento-area school officials
  say 400 wireless laptops -- worth about 1
  million -- have reduced suspension rates by 50
  and brought about a sea change in the scores and
  behavior of its students, many who are poor and
  80 who do not have access to computers at home.
  "I see enthusiasm for learning and wanting to be
  in school, and that's powerful," said Rita
  Phillips, elementary schools coordinator with
  Sacramento City Unified School District. The
  Sacramento Bee (Calif.)

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Be A Role Model

• Build a technology learning plan
• Use technology visibly Palm, Trio, Laptop,
  etc...
• Use technology terminology correctly,
• Learn conceptually what a network is and how it
  works
• Be a competent technology user
• Learn what successful integration looks like!

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Helen Teague Mary White http//4oops.com