Web Publishing and Education

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Web Publishing and Education

• Andrew Barr/Bruce White
• Semester 2 Week 4
• 2003

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Educational Web Site

• Audience?
• Content/Subject Material?
• Intranet in School?
• Students as Publishers?

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Educational Web Site

• Collaborative Teacher Lesson plans?
• Collaborative Student projects?
• Student information sites?
• Organising a Web quest?

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Educational Audience

• World wide web------ the world
• Intranet----- the school community
• Educational sites---mostly teachers

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Educational content

• Age level/grade level?
• Curriculum guides?
• Integrated subjects programs
• Process of finding content/research

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Educational Intranets

• Students as electronic publishers
• New local software (www.rgmt.com.au)

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Educational Intranets
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Educational Intranets

• See example of student electronic publishing
  (http//www.plc.vic.edu.au/Special/camps/yr10camp/
  front.html)

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Collaborative Student projects?

• Interactivity of the user?
• Web quests started in1995.
• Information mining from the web
• See http//edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/overview.htm

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Web quest
http//webquest.sdsu.edu/
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Teacher Lesson plans

• Finding them?
• Contributing lesson plans to your colleagues
• Module 3 (study guide )
• http//school.discovery.com/lessonplans/

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Collaborative Student projects?

• Travel buddies
• E-pals
• Intercultural e-mail classroom
• Specialized search engines
• Free web Tools

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Assignment 1

• Due Week 8 post by September 19th
• Evaluations of 5 educational websites
• Develop your own evaluation method
• Assignment presented as a website
• Reading 3.7 (Updated web page)
• http//www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-49.html

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More Graphics and planning

• Animated gif files
• http//school.discovery.com/clipart/category/anmt1
  .html
• Site Maps
• www.inspiration.com

Home page
First page
Second page
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Page Framing Design
LOGO
Navigation Bar
Locator Locator Locator Locator
Content
Related stuff
Contact details
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Home page in Photoshop
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References

• Pearrow, M. (2000) Website usability handbook,
  Charles River media,Mass. USA. Call 005.72 P359
• Goto, K. Cotler, E. (2002) Web redesign
  Workflow that works,New riders, Indianapolis,
  USA. Call 005.72 G684
• Austin, B, (2000) Webpage design in easy steps,
  Computer steps, England.
• Kearsley, G. (2000) Online education Learning
  and Teaching in Cyberspace, Wadsworth, Australia.