During the whole course the Internet will be used as a reference source and a communication channel (through e-mail and the web page). Students and teacher will develop a Web Page for the course, which will include reference information on the topics studied and writings done by the students. Some readings will also be done online. The first two bimesters will focus on basic Internet skills such as searching, using e-mail and creating simple web pages. Starting on the third bimester students and teacher will develop the web page, which will be graded collectively as a group work result and individually as every student contributes to it.

By the end of the bimester, students will understand the enormous range of possibilities that new technologies have for creating and telling stories (cyber-stories).

Each section of Seventh will prepare and upload one cyber story with the knowledge they have acquired about web design and “cyber-storytelling”.

Students will listen to lectures and discuss the possibilities of the digital media for telling stories. They will read about these, and visit websites that provide them.

They will create, in class, a site that proposes a form of “cyber-story” in groups of minimum five, maximum ten students.

Students will answer one questionnaire on the possibilities of the digital media for telling stories in comparison with the printed media (40%), and they will produce and upload (in groups) a “cyber-story” which will be corrected on the Internet (50%).

The remaining 10% will be the grade for the folder and readiness to learn.

Murray, Janet. Hamlet on the Holodeck. Cambridge: MIT Press.1999.

Murray, Janet. Hamlet on the Holodeck Resources Page. Hypertext at: [http://web.mit.edu/jhmurray/www/HOH.html]

Crime Scene (a ciber story). Hypertext at:

[http://www.crimescene.com/mike/index.html]

 

By the end of the bimester, students will be able to create a web page that that presents useful information and works properly.

Uploading the page to a server will depend on the school’s solution to our “Internet Dilemma”.

Students will learn how to create web pages with hyperlinks connecting them.

They will use HTML code, insert images, and tables.

They will create web pages in groups and present them as a functional web site. The topics of the pages will be chosen from range assigned by the teacher.

There will be two one-hour class work exercises for a 50% and three to five one hour classes to build a website in groups of six to ten students 40%.

The remaining 10% will be the grade for the folder and readiness to learn.

Burns, Joe. Image Tutorials
Big, small, transparent, or animated -- Here's how you do it all! [http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/img.html] 06/11/2001

Burns, Joe. The Basics
If you know nothing about HTML, this is where you start] [http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/basics.html] 06/11/2001

 

By the end of the bimester, students will be able to create a web page that supports an oral presentation. They will either upload this page to a public server (if the school’s Internet connection is working better than by November), or use the school’s network to present their work to others.

Students will learn how to create a web page as visual aid and support for an oral presentation.

They will use HTML code, insert images, tables, and hyperlinks in their pages.

They will use these as part of the oral presentations they will do of their research reports for the Text and Talk Achievement.

There will be short presentations by the teacher and mostly class work in the computer room, guided by the teacher. Every class work will be graded (40%) and the final result will be presented with the research oral report (50%).

Readiness to learn will be a 10% of the final grade.

By the end of the bimester the students will be capable of finding useful information on the web related to a specific research project. They will understand how web search engines work and they will have certain criteria for judging how trustworthy the information they find might be.

Students will understand the story on Internet, how search engines work, the difference and meaning of internet addresses' suffixes, tips for judging information found on the web. They will know how to use the Advanced Search option in search engines.

There will be short presentations by the teacher and mostly class work in the computer room, either looking for information, or completing online lessons. Every class work will be graded and have the same value for the final grade.

Internet

Learn to search the web! A search lesson.

Second Internet class work: Biography!

Third Internet classwork HERE