ISP 1600 for Winter 2005Web.Edu: How Internet Courses Work

Course web site: http://www.is.wayne.edu/drbowen/WebEduW05

Fourth meeting

February 3, 2005

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Class names

• Initial the signin sheet

• Review of names

• Pictures (not a requirement but you may not like the alternative, will be repeated next two week

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Web sites for this class

• Public (www.is.wayne.edu/drbowen/aasw05)o All handouts or static materials (syllabus, notes, exam

questions, etc.)o Two links to Moodle (why two links?)

• Moodle(techtools.culma.wayne.edu/moodle OR DIRECT… techtools.culma.wayne.edu/moodle/course/view.php?id=10)

o Interactive, where you do something, such as discuss the course, turn in homework, etc.

o More detail coming up

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Moodle• What is there:

o Participants (list of class)o Online users (class members online now)o Chato Edit Profileo Forumso Weekly Reporto Study Schedule (turn in assignment by 2/3)o Recent activity (everyone, since the last time)o Under Administration, Activity report (yours)o Link back to course web siteo More coming (grades)

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Moodle: Activity Reports

• Outline: what you did

• Complete: what you read and did

• Today’s logs: graph Vs time, today

• All logs: graph Vs time, from start

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Overview1. What is in an online course?

a. Almost alwaysb. Sometimes

2. What is different about online courses? “Autonomy and Responsibility”

a. The online discussion is the starb. If you start to feel you are out there all alone,

and you run into any trouble, then you will probably do badly or drop out

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Overview (continued)

3. Technical issues for online studentsa. This is what concerns most students (is my

computer good enough, are my Internet skills good enough ?) but…

b. There are a lot of things that might go wrong. Each one is rare.

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About the Internet

• URL – Universal Resource Locatero “web address” for a web pageo Home page – designed as beginning web page

for a site HTML – Hypertext Markup Language – how web pages are formatted.

• Example: <b>Wow!</b> makes Wow! (bold)

• Can skip messing with tags using WYSIWYG HTML editor

– Free example: Netscape or Mozilla Composer

• View Source to see HTML in Browser

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About the Internet

• URL – Universal Resource Locatero Web pages are computer files formatted with

HTML and having the extension htm or htmlo A web site is a group of related web pages.

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About the Internet

• Four ways to get to a web pageo Type in the URLo Click on a text or graphical linko History list (only on that computer)

• OK – Unorganized, can get pushed off if list full

o Make a favorite (IE) or bookmark (Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox) (only on that computer)

• Better – can organize, keep on list

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Internet: Make Favorite or Bookmark

• Go to page

• Click on menu item Bookmarks >> Bookmark This Page (Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox – “NMF”)ORFavorites >> Add to Favorites (IE) then (IE) accept name or change it

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Internet: Make Favorite or Bookmark (cont’d)

• Advanced – move up and down on list or make folders, put bookmarks in them. Graphical – drag them around on then screeno (NMF): Click on Bookmarks >>

Manage Bookmarkso (IE): Click on Favorites >> Organize Favorites

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Internet: Download File

• Download: copy file from Internet to your computer

• Click onlink to file

• (NMF)

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Internet: Download File (cont’d)

• (IE) Will generally open file in IE, then pick IE menu item File >> Save As

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Internet: Download File (cont’d)

Double-click on drive / folder to see inside it

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Recommendation

• Recommendation – each course a separate folder

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Internet: Upload File

• Upload – copy a file from your computer to Internet. Here, in Moodle.

• Go to tool to upload or turn in assignment (Turn in Study Schedule)

• Click on Browse, see next screen

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Internet: Upload File (cont’d)

• After that, click on Upload this file

• End of Upload

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Life on the Internet• It’s a jungle out there – more later

o Don’t use easy passwordso Keep antivirus software up to dateo Scams, phishing, hackerso Internet security suite – includes firewall, data

safekeepingo Don’t click on free offers that are to good to be

true

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Life on the Internet (cont’d)

• It’s a jungle out there – more latero Don’t open email attachments from someone

you don’t knowo In a lab, log out whenever you can

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Online life at WSU

• Activate your WSU email (“aannnn@wayne.edu”)

• If you do not use it, forward it to an account you do useo Do this in Pipeline with account button

• Conduct at least one test of forwarding – many people mistype email address

• Keep forwarding up to date!

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Chapter 1 - Quiz

Best answer – an online student…

a. Can get a degree without leaving bedroom

b.Can save a lot of education time and money

c. Has no interaction with others

d.Has to be really computer-smart

e. All of the above

f. None of the above

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Chapter 1 - Quiz

Is each true or false?

1. Anyone can succeed as an online student

2. All distance education requires a computer

3. Best online programs from best colleges

4. You will get the same credentials online

5. If you have a degree, you can forget about online education

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Chapter 4

Who provides Distance Learning?• Everyone, and the list is growing

o Public & private two-year and four-year colleges, and consortiums

o For-profit private mixed and online collegeso Privately-developed courses taught by otherso Trade schools

• At least 100,000 courses, 4,000 institutions

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Chapter 13 – Working the System• Can be more personal• Requirements: available in advance (WSU?)• Technical support – what types? Access?• Variety of methods, online to f2f• Online students: must be more (inter)active• More work for students, and for faculty

o Students: share more informationo Faculty: lay assignments out clearly, interact

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Chapter 13 – Working the System• Netiquette

o Keep messages shorto Meaningful subject lineo Respect other opinions (may be part of course)o Focus on ideas, not persono Be careful with sarcasm and humor – smilies ☺o Acronyms can be a problemo Electronic file compatibilityo May be institutional or faculty rules

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Chapter 13 – Working the System• May be online evaluation

o Institutiono Course

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For next week

• Web Hub?

• Read Chapter 13, “Working the System”

• One or two posts to “Course discussion”

• Catching upo Post in “One interesting thing”o Weekly Report 1o Work schedule

Done!