This page will be an outline of the group's weekly tasks as a reference for newcomers and a memory aid for everyone |
WEEK 0
- Write your introduction to the list.
- Add your photo to the group photos.
- Add your personal data to the database created by Isabel
- Add your birthday to the group calendar (set a reminder for at least two days in advance, so that we all remember to greet you when the time comes!)
- Explore the group links. If you haven't done so yet, read the articles on Yahoo! groups and post a message sharing with everyone how you'd like to profit from this environment.
WEEK 1 (March 20-26)
According to your level of knowledge on the topic you can either:
A. __Intermediate or above__: Find a webpage / website on Netiquette (in connection with e-mail and messages in forums and the like) and add it to the folder "Netiquette" in the group Links.
B. __Beginners__: Find a definition of "Netiquette" (online or offline) and post it on the wiki.
- Write an introduction to the list.
- Add yourself to the Frappr Map.
- Go to the Members Page in the wiki, log in and edit the page (there's a list of all passwords are in the Group Tools database)
- Add your photo and write a brief note about it.
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WEEK 2 (March 27- April 2)
This week was focused on how to get, convert, resize and upload your pictures to a website, wiki or blog. For detailed instructions on this using different tools, you can hav a look at WorkingWithImages in this wiki.
Once you get your first picture ready, there are two things you need to do (if you haven't already):
1. Upload your picture to our group Photo album
2. Add yourself to the group Frappr map (find the link in the edited Welcome message on our homepage).
Still want to go playing with pictures? Remember the page "Members" in this wiki is precisely for that?
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WEEK 3 (April 3-12)
This week we discussed how to add voice to mails. Our first suggestion is SPRINGDOO, a free tool that allows you to add voice to your emails and stores your audio files
online.We got voice messages from Gladys, Cecilia, Dennis, Claudia, Ingrid, Illya, Isabel and Julia.
Visit VoiceCommunications in our wiki for tips, and send the group a message recorded with Springdoo!
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WEEK 4 (April 13-19)
- Text Mail
- How to organize your mails using Outlook Express and Yahoo, Google or Hotmail filters
- Differences between messages in a group and ordinary e-mails
- How you can find a message among your folders in your hard disk, or at the website
Visit our wiki page: http://learningwithcomputers.pbwiki.com/Textmails and keep messages in order.
- Introduction to Widgets - Weather Widget
Teri Khadija introduces us into the fascinating world of widgets! What are they? Where can we get them from? How can we use them in class? Join her to discuss all the wonderful possibilities!
You can start by visiting her wiki page: http://learningwithcomputers.pbwiki.com/Widgets
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WEEK 5 (April 20-26)
Revision and Extension Week
Here comes the opportunity to look back, go over everything each of us has learned in the last four weeks, and go a little deeper into our understanding of new concepts.
So here's a list of possible tasks for this week:
- Go over this Weekly Tasks page and make sure you've carried them all out (or that you're actually not interested in trying them right now!).
- Catch up with your reading. Take part in our poll!
- Socialize: Check that you've replied to everybody who's ever written you! Post a message greeting somebody you've never interacted with before.
- Browse through our list of members, and send an email to somebody who's never posted anything yet. Ask them if they need help to start interacting, and offer to become their "partner" online! Make sure you include a clear way to contact you...
- Contribute to the wiki: How can Springdoo be used in language teaching? Add your ideas to the page "Voicemails".
- Share your doubts, progress and failures!
- Promote our group: invite a colleague to join, or get one of the icons from "Promote" and post them on your blog or website!
- And to prevent those who've already tried everything from getting bored, you're invited to read:
"Like the facilitator, the online student possesses unique qualities...".
Vance Stevens explains how "in the hands of a skilled moderator, a YahooGroup portal can be made to function with many features of an expensive and more complicated LMS" .. and discusses other tools used by the Webheads for the same purpose.
Widgets (Chapter 2)- Math Widgets
Try them and add your ideas to the wiki page
Bookmarks
Isabel and Dennis have been appointed official bookmarkers for the group. They've set up account in two different bookmarking sites: Blinklist and Del.icio.us
If you want to add a link, you'll need the username and password:
- Blinklist: __Username__: learningwithcomputers; __Password__: learningwithcomputers
- Del.icio.us: __Username__: learnengcomp; __Password__: hug
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WEEK 6 (April 27-May 3)
- Browsing the WWW (PART ONE)
- WWW vs. the Internet
- Advanced search
- How to find text on a webpage
- Difference between search engines and catalogues
- Some key concepts: URL, browser, hypertext, link
- How to bookmark a page with IE
Think you could contribute to this topic?
Visit Browsing the Web - Part 1
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WEEK 7 (May 4-10)
- Browsing the WWW (PART TWO)
Welcome to the second week on "Browsing the Web"!!!
This week we'll keep trying to master our web browsers, and start looking for criteria to determine the value of websites.
Start by reading \"Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff\" by Alfredo Bilopotsky, for a useful summary on Eastment's ideas. It's in our group files.
Also see Visit Browsing the Web - Part 2
Special task: For the next 3 weeks you can add your logo designs to the Logo designspage in this wiki. A poll will be eventually held to choose the one that represents more closely the spirit of this group. |
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WEEK 8 (May 11-17)
- Browsing the WWW (PART THREE)
This week's questions:
1) How can you use "Internet options" within IE Tools?
2) What does the "cache" or "cached" link in your search page point to?
3) What icon shows a page a "safe" - for you to enter your personal data?
4) In IE, what happens when you click Ctrl + O?
Explore, share and learn!
Browsing the Web - Part 3
Logo project: Contribute your design, comment or idea for a group logo at the Logo designs page. |
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WEEK 9 (May 18-24)
- Browsing the WWW (PART FOUR)
What happens if you click the following combination of keys:
Ctrl + F
Ctrl + E
Ctrl + O
Ctrl + D
Ctrl + Page up
Ctrl + Page down
And what do the following special keys do?
F5 - F11 - F1 - F3- F4
Browsing the Web - Part 4
- __Using Geocities File Manager__
You can still enter our LOGO COMPETITION. Show your creativity at the Logo designspage. |
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WEEK 10 (May 25-June 01)
- Look back, look ahead, and look around
This week is devoted once again to revision, extension, socializing and promotion. So here's a list of possible tasks:
Revision
1. Go through this page and make sure you've carried out all weekly tasks that might be of interest to you.
2. Catch up with your reading. Let us know what you learnt from Alfredo Bilopotsky's article!
Socializing
1. Check that you've replied to everybody who's ever written you!
2. Post a message greeting somebody you've never interacted with before.
3. Browse through our list of members, and send an email to somebody who's never posted anything yet, or who's not posted anything during the last month. Ask them if they need help to start interacting (or check whether they're OK), and offer to become their "partner" online! Make sure you include a clear way to contact you...
Extension
1. Read:
a. "Internet Research: Students'Panacea?" http://snipurl.com/qyaw
b. "Establishing and Maintaining Web Presence: A guide for
educators" - Vance Stevens I know you had a look at this one last month, but since soon we'll invite you to start a wiki, it's time you decided who your audience in cyberspace will be! How about re-reading it, with a new aim?
2. You can then post your reactions as replies to this message, or better, as an entry to our blog!
What have you learnt about surfing the Internet? What are your reactions to the readings? Add your ideas to the pages "Browsing the WWW" in the wiki or make a new post at the blog (ask Gladys for the blog password)
Promotion
1. Get unmoderated (go back to message #250 to see how to go about it!)or volunteer to become a group moderator (see message #704)
2. Promote our group: invite a colleague to join, or get one of the icons from "Promote" and post them on your blog or website!
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WEEK 11 (June 2-8)
Wikis: Part 1
Try the quiz and check your knowledge about wikis:
http://gladysbaya.no.sapo.pt/wikis01.htm
The whole quiz includes 10 questions, of several kinds. Most of them include explanations and extra information you have a chance to see when you submit your answers.
Task for "experienced" members: design your own quizzes on other aspects of wikis (wiki syntax, how to start your own wiki, working with images in Pbwiki, comparisons between different wikis, etc.)or perhaps one dealing with what was covered in our first two months.
Useful websites:
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WhatIsaWiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
http://www.wikimatrix.org/ (Compare the Wikis of your choice in a comfortable side-by-side table)
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WEEK 12 (June 9-14)
Wikis: Part 2**
Try our second quiz on wikis:
http://school.discovery.com/quizzes31/gladysbaya/Wikis02.html
Enter your email address before clicking on "submit results", to get an email with your answers and score.
This quiz has been created with Quiz Maker from Discovery School Home Center (freeware):
http://school.discovery.com/quizcenter/quizcenter.html
You are also encouraged to go to Working with wikis and add your ideas about how to use wikis with our classes.
There's a new entry to the blog. Have a look and leave your comment!
And don't forget to have a last look at Logo designs and vote on your favourites logos.
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