Greenwood School District 50

Turn on Computer

Turn on computer

At Novell login, use your user ID and password

Be sure to check Workstation Only

Setup Tasks

Find the wireless network

Check the System Tray on the Task Bar at the bottom of the desktop

Find the wireless network icon (little computer with signal lines and a red “X”)

Right-click the wireless network icon

Click View available wireless networks

Highlight Linksys

Click the Connect button

Check the wireless network icon (it should not have a red “X” now)

Double-click the Internet Explorer icon on the desktop and test your Internet access

Download and install QuickTime

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html

Uncheck 3 boxes under Sign-Up

Choose Free Download Now

Choose Save in gray windows

Navigate to Desktop and save iTunesSetup.exe

After save is completed, click the Close button to close the gray window

Go to your Desktop

Double-click the iTunesSetup icon

Follow the steps for installation, choosing the best answer to each question

On the Setup Type screen, UNCHECK both boxes before clicking Next

Accept the default path for the installation (C:\Program Files\iTunes\)

Click Finish with checkbox to re-start computer

Project Review

Follett check-in/check-out procedures

Flash drives, speakers, etc.

Connecting computers and projectors

School network access: proxy required

Home network access: no proxy and workstation only

Types of home networks

Applications we support

Staff development outline

Staff development schedule

Make-up schedules

Instructional Planning

Double-click My Computer

Double-click Drive C:

Be sure nothing is highlighted

File/New/Folder; name folder with Last Name plus First Initial (e.g., westg)

Open Word and Setup Document

Set text boundaries (Tools/Options/Text boundaries)

Minimize Word document

Windows task bar

Re-open Word from the task bar

Create title (school name and content area)

Save to your folder (ScienceResources.doc)

Minimize Word document

Create Favorites

Open browser (Internet Explorer)

Go to the project website

Add to favorites (name Tech Project)

Go to the Staff Development Resources webpage

Add to favorites (name Instructional Resources)

Visit specific websites and add links to Word document

Site-of-the-Week links

March 2002: Froguts

Explore the site

Highlight and copy (CTRL-C) address

Click Word document button on task bar

Type “Frog Dissection” and paste (CTRL-V) link beside text

Press <Space> after link and <Enter> twice

Save Word document

Minimize Word document

Close browser

Open browser

Favorites/Instructional Resources

Site-of-the-Week links

Summer 2000, Week 1: Cave at Lascaux

Explore the site

Highlight and copy (CTRL-C) address

Click Word document button on task bar

Type “Prehistoric Cave Art” and paste (CTRL-V) link beside text

Press <Space> after link and <Enter> twice

Save Word document

Minimize Word document

Close browser

Open browser

Favorites/Instructional Resources

Site-of-the-Week links

November 2003: Visual Thesaurus

If asked to install the ActiveX Control, do so by clicking the yellow message bar immediately under the address line

Explore the site

Highlight and copy (CTRL-C) address

Click Word document button on task bar

Type “Visual Thesaurus” and paste (CTRL-V) link beside text

Press <Space> after link and <Enter> twice

Save Word document

Minimize Word document

Close browser

Open browser

Favorites/Instructional Resources

Site-of-the-Week links

November 2003: Playing with Time

If asked to install QuickTime, see steps above

Explore the site

Highlight and copy (CTRL-C) address

Click Word document button on task bar

Type “Playing with Time” and paste (CTRL-V) link beside text

Press <Space> after link and <Enter> twice

Save Word document

Minimize Word document

Close browser

Active Links in Word Document

Click Word document button on task bar

Move the mouse pointer onto one of the address links in the Word document and leave it on the link

See the pop-up note about using (CTRL-click) to access the website

With the mouse pointer on the address, hold down the CTRL key; see the mouse pointer change into “the finger”

While holding down the CTRL key, click one of the links in the Word document

See that the link goes to the site selected

Click the Back button (if available); if not available, close the window with the website

See the Word document

Test other links with (CTRL-click)

Close Word document

Concepts

For delivering lesson the next day (or whenever), open the Word document on projector screen and go to desired sites (never go to sites in front of students without having visited the site beforehand)

Save the Word document on a CD for students to use individually or in small groups; send CD to parents (must have Word in order to use)

Quick review of previous activities (if necessary)

Instructional Resources

Open browser

Favorites/Instructional Resources

Compare this page to the model seen with “Virtual Thesaurus” – this page will be the beginning from which their resources will “spider” out to more resources, and so on

Click link to Blue Web’n Content Grid; visit several content areas and types of resources (note ratings)

Discuss DISCUS, MarcoPolo, SCTLC as familiar resources

Discuss FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence) and GEM (Gateway to Educational Materials) from the US Department of Education

Discuss KnowItAll from SCETV

Discuss StreamLineSC and Safari Montage

Discuss Site-of-the-Week Index and some of the resources to be found there

Discuss eSchoolNews and three articles about using technology for instruction

Discuss selected reference materials

Encyclopedia Britannica

Information Please Almanac

Glossary of Literary Terms and Rhetorical Devices

Online Dictionaries

Merriam-Webster Online

All US newspapers

World newspapers

First headlines

World Fact Book

Other links

Exploring the Project Website

Point out structure of project website

Word documents that have become the outline and agenda for the staff development activities

Saved as web pages to provide easy access to resources for activities – and for access after activities are over

Explore some of the links on the resources page (individually or in groups)

Quick review of previous activities

Building a Teacher or Class Web Page

Web page concepts

District 50 website

Text

Pictures

Links to other web pages

Note the text that has been made into a link

Review the “Text, Pictures, Links” web page

Download the Word document for creating a web page

Save it to your folder

Download the two pictures for use on the webpage

Save both to your folder

Open Word document (WebPageStarter.doc) from your folder

Add the school name

Add the teacher name

Review components of the page

Go through the background options

Format/Background

Colors (choose and undo)

Fill Effects (choose and undo)

Two-color/textures/patterns/pictures

For picture, navigate to your folder and choose the background photo (Lite-Map-DIS.jpg)

Choose one background

Save file

Note that there are free backgrounds available from many sites on the web (education, seasons, holidays, etc.)

Re-sizing pictures

Click in the middle of the picture

See the 8 “handles” on the picture

Don’t use middle handles on top or bottom, left or right

Use corner handles to change size and shape of picture; make smaller, larger

Corner handles retain proportions in pictures

Inserting a picture

Click picture to turn on the handles

Press the Delete key on the keyboard to delete the picture

Place cursor in cell where picture was located

Click Insert on the menu bar

Choose Picture from drop-down menu

Choose From File to get a picture from your folder

Navigate to picture in your folder (ClassPhoto.jpg)

Insert the picture and re-size it as needed (using “handles”)

Inserting visible hyperlinks

The following links will be added to the table immediately under the picture; go to these websites (in the Site-of-the-Week Index) and Copy/Paste (CTRL-C/CTRL-V) the addresses onto the appropriate lines in the table

The addresses for these links will be visible on the page

Playing with Time (November 2003) – do this one with the group; leave the others for independent activity

Froguts (March 2002)

Nine Planets (January 2003)

Visual Thesaurus (November 2003)

How Stuff Works (April 2003)

Inserting invisible hyperlinks

The addresses for the following links will be “invisible” – that is, the text will be displayed but the link will not be seen; however, clicking on the text will go directly to the linked site

Minimize the Word file

Open the browser and go to the Cave at Lascaux (Site-of-the-Week, Summer 2000, Week 1)

Highlight the address and CTRL-C to copy the address

Minimize the browser

Pop-up your Word document from the task bar

Highlight the text for “Lascaux Cave”

With the text highlighted, click Insert on the menu bar

Choose Hyperlink from the drop-down menu

At the bottom of the hyperlink window, is a line named “Address”

Be sure cursor is flashing in that line

Paste the Lascaux address onto that line with CTRL-V

Click OK

The words “Lascaux Cave” will now be an active link

Save the Word document

Minimize Word

Open the browser and click the Home button to go to the District 50 website

On the District 50 website, highlight the address on the Address line and copy (CTRL-C)

Minimize the browser

Pop-up your Word document

Highlight the text for “Greenwood School District 50”

With the text highlighted, click Insert on the menu bar

Choose Hyperlink from the drop-down menu

At the bottom of the hyperlink window, is a line named “Address”

Be sure cursor is flashing in that line

Paste the District 50 address onto that line with CTRL-V

Click OK

The words “Greenwood School District 50” will now be an active link

Save the Word document

Finish the other links on this page using the strategies above

(SC science standards and be found on SDE website, under SDE Offices tab, at the Curriculum and Standards link on that page)

Save the Word document

Saving a Word document as a web page

With the Word document open, click File on the menu bar

Click Save As Web Page on the drop-down menu

Navigate to your folder and save the file using the same name as before

Close Word (use X in upper right corner)

Pop-up the browser and close it (use X in upper right corner)

You will probably be at your desktop

Navigate to your folder (My Computer, drive C:, etc.)

You’ll find the two files you’ve saved in your folder

The Word document will be named WebPageStarter.doc; its icon will be all blue

The web version will be named WebPageStarter.htm or WebPageStarter.mht; it will have blue and yellow/gold on its icon

Double-click the web version (yellow/gold on icon)

Note that the file, when it opens, does not have “Microsoft Word” on the title bar (just above the menu bar); this file is now open as a web page and is live on the Internet

Move your mouse pointer over any of the links to see that the finger appears; test several of the links and use the Back button to come back to your web page

Concepts

Create all web pages in your folder; then copy the entire folder to CD or flash drive for webmaster (cannot be emailed)

Creating web pages from Word – instead of regular Word documents – means you can give CDs to students and the links on the CDs will work even if the student’s computer does not have Word; it’ll work in any browser

Also, creating web pages with Word means you can create resources that your webmaster can post to your school’s website for access by parents and students without the need to have a CD; you can even direct students to your website to complete tasks individually or in small groups while you work with other students

Summary

The addition of the laptop and projector to classrooms means that teachers can bring web-based instructional resources in front of their students – resources that were not previously available without the projector/white board

The use of Word to organize resources means that teachers can find websites for use in class, can Copy/Paste those links into Word documents, can open those Word documents on the computer, and can take students to those links through the projector

Web resources can be found for specific standards, objectives, focus lessons, after-school activities, and re-enforcement of learning goals

Using small poster-board screens, small groups of students can explore web sites in directed lessons while the teacher is working with other students

Saving Word documents as web pages allows the teacher to provide links to resources for parents and students – from the class web pages, which can be accessed by students at school and away from school

Re-visit the Staff Development Resources web page and emphasize that this page will continue to grow and it can be the center of a teacher’s search for web-based resources

Note that most text books come with online or CD-based supplemental materials; the laptop and projector allow the teacher and students to use those materials to enhance the text book; propose that all such materials be included in any text book adoption in the future

Final questions, suggestions, comments, concerns

Adjourn