__ __ __ __ __ __ web's eye view (June 17, 1998) | | /| / /| | /| / /| | /| / / alan levine | |/ |/ / | |/ |/ / | |/ |/ / Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction |__/ |__/ |__/|__/ |__/|__/ http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/ ..............New bag of URLs.......http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/bag/ ============================================================================== The Infrequent Eye ------------------ It seems to take about six months now to roll off another column, but the newest web eye takes a stab at the philosophical web question: If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what is the value of a pciture of text? See yourself at: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/curr.html You can help us out by sharing any interesting web sites, especially those related to our goals here at Maricopa, by dropping them in our "Bag of URLs" form: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/bag/drop.html We have a nifty web interface where we can collect these and every few week generate the HTML version and the text versions that are sent out via this listserv. This is done without ANY touching of hands into that nasty HTML. Two Online Web Workshops ------------------------ We have materials from two recent workshops we did at the Connections '98 conference in Vancouver. Trying to cover the content with a group in 2 hourss, we found we could cover at best 40% of what we had designed! This is not a proble, since the real design was for people to do them at their onw pace, using the resources we set up. So try them out, tell a friend, colleague, and let us know what you think: "What a Site! Finding, Evaluating, Sharing, and Taking 'em Home" The purpose of "What a Site" is to help teachers locate, evaluate, and integrate web resources for their area of interest-- the subjects that they teach. Can we repeat that? We want to help you learn to find useful content in your specialty area. We do this via a framework of four different "flavors" of web usage. http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/what/ "Interactive Elements for Your Web Site: how to use javascript and shockwave" Learn how to find collections of interactive elements such as JavaScript and Shockwave and incorporate them into web pages without needing to know how to program. Examples include making web slide shows and online quizzes. Participants should have basic knowledge of HTML http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/conn98/ We've been getting a lot of use out of one of the workshop templates we developed, the HTML for a JavaScript generated slide show. It is simple to customize, and some faculty have already started to use it themselves. You can see examples at: Ocotillo Retreat 98 "10 Years of Ocotillo" http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/retreat98/show/ Ocotillo Retreat 98 photos http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/retreat98/photos Open Space Forum Meeting, April 1998 http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/learning/events/osf0498/slideshow/ A Contrast of Two Towns, Rick Effland MCC http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/anthro/two_towns/ Slides from the Grand Canyon http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/jclicker/template/ Instructions are provided from the "Interactive Elements workshop" or the "jClicker" site itself: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/jclicker/ If you experiment with this and find it useful, let us know so we can add to our list of examples. District Training Services offers HTML Classes ---------------------------------------------- Pam Williams at the District Training Services department is now teaching an introductory HTML class. Call 18287 for schedules and details. It looks like they are working on getting the class schedules on the District web server: http://www.dist.maricopa.edu/ Join Us at Planet Zircon ------------------------ We've been experimenting with a server running a CU-SeeMe reflector, a place where we can host Internet video conferences by anyone using the CU-See me software. By July, we hope to maintain regualr open hours there 8:00 Am to 10:00 AM every day. If you have a little computer video camera, such as a Connectix QuickCam http://www.connectix.com/html/hardware.html and the CU-SeeMe software: http://cu-seeme.cornell.edu/ you can tune in to our reflector at: 140.198.3.105 conference 0 We hope to experiment more with this in the next few months. For now always on the conference, is a camera hooked up to our Apple IP server, which broadcasts some snapshots of our office We are also running on this server the now free version of the RealMedia server software, which allows you to transmit streaming RealAudio and/or RealVideo. In the past you had to purchase this, but the basic server package is free: RealNetworks Basic Server Real Audio and Real Video (streaming media) is now available in a FREE basic server, available for IBM AIX, HP/UX, FreeBSD 2.2.x, SGI/Irix, Linux 2.0.30, Sun/SunOS, Sun/Solaris, BSDI 3.0, Windows NT, and Windows 95 platforms. http://www.real.com/server/basic/ There is a small version of an animated logo we did: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/video/mcli_welcome.ram Virtual University Journal On-Line Conference --------------------------------------------- Starts June 1, 1998 Convenor DANIEL EISENBERG of Northern Arizona University discusses technology aided learning . "Change is coming whether faculty like it or not. If we are not involved in shaping it, others will do it for us". Join in the debate or drop in to find out what other delegates say. To register your comments or to view Daniel's paper "College Faculty and Distance Learning" visit the VUJ Web site at; http://www.openhouse.org.uk/virtual-university-press/ The conference runs until 26 June 1998 webTeacher Tutorial ------------------- A site supported by the National Cable Television Association, webTeacher offers a very well-written set of mini-tutorials covering basic to advanced concepts of web page development. See for yourself: http://www.webteacher.org/