Grinnell Summer 1998 Web Workshop
Preliminary Schedule
Summer Faculty Workshop
Use of World Wide Web in Classes
July 13-17, 1998, 9:00 a.m. to noon
This is an alternate version of the
master schedule.
Facilitator: Leslie
- 9:00-9:15 Introductions
- Faculty discuss their use of Web technologies and what they hope to achieve
this week
- 9:15-9:45 Basics of HTML (Sam)
- 9:45-10:00 Break
- 10:00-11:00 How to design a course Web page
- Using Internet Publishing within Word98 and WordPerfect 8 (Mike, Mark);
- Using PageMill (Leslie, David)
- 11:00-noon Break into PC & Mac group:
Create a basic web page for a course (could just transfer an existing
course syllabus).
Facilitator: David
- 9:00-9:45 Participant demonstrations
- Faculty demonstrate the pages they created and discuss problems
- 9:45-10:00 Break
- 10:00-11:00 Additional demonstrations
- Faculty (Jared Gardner, Sam)
demonstrate course Web pages with
discussion of how they have used Web pages in classes
and a few design recommendations.
- 11:00-11:30 Discuss issues pertaining to the use of course Web pages
- 11:30-noon Show some good Web pages from other schools (e.g.,
World Lecture Hall)
Make at least two hot links on web page, one for email and one to another site
(e.g., Grinnell College home page or
departmental home page).
Facilitator: Catherine
- 9:00-9:45 Putting course readings on the Web page
- How to do it. Issues involved, especially regarding copyright
(Bill, Catherine).
- 9:45-10:00 Break
- 10:00-10:30 Putting student papers online
- How to do it. Ethical concerns regarding student work. Discussion
(Sam and Bill)
- 10:30-11:15 Other pedagogical uses of course Web pages (Leslie, Sam)
- use of other sites (T. Mills Kelly's page)
- course assignments, interactive forms, etc.
- WebCT
- 11:15-noon — Technologies for class discussion (Bill)
- Current Listserv possibilities. Future possibilities with Internet
Information Server
Using the World Wide Web: find sites of interest regarding classroom use of
different technologies (course readings, assignments, etc.).
Optional assignment: experiment with advanced technologies (discussion
groups, annotations, WebCT, etc.).
Facilitator: Gail
- 9:00-9:45 Faculty discuss experiences with Web assignment
- 9:45-10:00 Break
- 10:00-11:00 Searching the web.
- Discussion of Web search engines and directories.
Some tips for using search engines (David)
- 11:00-11:45 Evaluating sites.
- How did faculty evaluate their sites?
What can we do to teach students to use critical evaluation skills when
using the Internet?
- 11:45-noon Planning
- Discuss schedule for Friday: Additional topics for discussion?
Search, find and add relevant WWW sites to course Web page.
Facilitator: Rebecca
- 9:00-9:45 Discussion of additional Web searching experiences
- 9:45-10:00 Break
- 10:00-10:30 Student issues.
- Discussion regarding students and their use of the Internet.
How can faculty guide student use of the Internet?
How can faculty use a Web page to direct students?
What do the faculty want students to be able to do?
- 10:30-11:00 Staff issues.
- Discussion regarding roles of faculty secretaries and
instructional technology/multimedia specialists with regard
to Web pages.
- 11:00-11:30 Campus issues.
- What should the campus be doing regarding the World Wide Web
for classes, for departments, for individual faculty?
- 11:30-noon Other technologies
(such as Adobe) and the future of the World-Wide Web. (Sam and Bill)
Write report for Helen Scott.