Agenda

Wrap Up: Seam Summer Science Institute
IUPUI School of Science, July 24-25, 2003
Comments added 7/26/03

Wrap Up thoughts and additional resources:
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Seam Summer Science Institute!

1) Don't forget to Contribute to Way Cool Websites - share your favorite sites with others! Check your
contributions, and the contribitions of your fellow JiTTers at waycoolwebsites.htm

2) Getting a copy of Front Page or Dreamweaver: Check to see whether your school uses FrontPage or Dreamweaver already. (If they are looking to purchase software, recommend Dreamweaver...it is almost the same as FrontPage, but it writes better HTML code and had really cool features to manage your website). If your school does not have software, and is not planning to buy any either, as IUPUI students you can to purchase these software titles at greatly reduced prices. Rick French thinks that as of later this week (August 1st), all of you will in the IUPUI system, and can go to University College to get a student ID ("one card"), and purchase Microsoft Office for $15 or Dreamweaver for $99 at the Cavanaugh Hall Bookstore. We MAY even be able to arrange some reimbursement for these software titles through Project Seam (we're working on this...no guarantees!)

3) Tech Issues: Once you get back to school, either meet with, call, or e-mail your building or district Tech Person. Ask how you can get a folder added to the schoo or district server that will contain your web files. Do what you can to request that YOU are allowed to upload the files - remember it only involves dragging a file into the correct folder on the server. It will be much more difficult to do JiTT if you have to ask someone else for help everytime you need to upload something simple! Sometimes schools or departments are reluctant to do let people have access to the server, so we may have to work a bit to find an arrangement that works for everyone (please let Kathy or Rick know if you are meeting resistance, and we will see what we can do to help). Jon Eynon will be in touch with us about the .asp code for the Warm Up forms so everyone can get up and running on making a working interactive form! He expects this to take 3 weeks (ie: mid-August). Thank again for your patience...I do wish we would have set up the form code before our workshop, but once we get this form going it will work well.

4) On-line testing: Again, this was not part of our workshop, but a lot of people were interested in finding out more. See these links: The BuddyProject and TeleEducation - and talk to your school district about using computers for testing.

5) Student nicknames: A few people had concerns about this: I use student nicknames when showing Warm Up responses because I feel it adds to the whole Warm Up 'experience' - students like to see their names up on the screen or overhead, even if the answer is incomplete, and therefore will work a little harder to put in a good response. However, use of nicknames is totally optional! If you have any concerns that your students might choose an inappropriate nickname (inappropriate nicknames.....who, teenagers?!?), ask them to pick one nickname for the semester - and make it relate to your discipline...ie: students could sign in as Charles Darwin, Rosalind Franklin, E. coli, ...or as the name of an element, or animal, or....you decide!!! .

6) Fun with HTML: I forgot to mention this at the workshop, but if you liked looking at the HTML code on the pages you made, you can also look at ANY page's HTML code (or source code) on the web. Simply pick a fave page, like amazon.com. Once there, choose from the top menu "View...Source"...and you will see their HTML code. You probably won't know what to MAKE of most of it, but in looking through it, you will see some familiar elements...HTML for links, tables, bold face, form tags, etc. For even greater thrills,

(1) Copy the 'source' of that webpage ("select all...copy")
(2) Open up Front Page (new_page_1),
(3) Go to HTML view
(4) Paste the copied source material into the HTML view of front page.
(5) Click over to either Normal view or Preview - and you will see amazon.com's webpage! (Close this file without saving...you won't be getting amazon.com's orders - or revenue - anyway !)
(6) This is how a lot of people learn HTML...by looking at other people's code and saying, "Oh, so that's how they did that!" or using just the bit of code that does a needed job - making a certain table, etc. (It is also a little scary that it is so easy to copy somebody else's work from the web - HTML or print content!)

7) Which brings us into...Copyright issues: Talk to your textbook rep, your curriculum director or appropriate tech person in your district about use of photos, textbook figures, etc, in your webpage (especially copyrighted material). We want to set the best example we can for our students - and protect ourselves - by giving appropriate credit where credit is due! Remember the concept of Fair Use - if the material is correctly linked back to the source, used for educational purposes only, and is not used for profit, it is "usually" considered fair use. Clip art available with a program can be used freely, as can many of the clip art images from free clip art sites.

Some guidelines:

IUPUI's Fair use checklist: (note: This is a PDF file)
Fair Use
Websites: 5 ways to stay out of trouble:
Copyright and fair use issues:

If you really like a copyrighted image, e-mail the person and ask to use it - they will usually let you! Talk to your school district for guidelines appropriate to your school system.

This is a disclaimer I put on my syllabus: "I follow as stringently as possible the guidelines put forth by IUPUI on the Use of Copyrighted Materials On The World Wide Web. Articles I assign are a fundamental part of the course objectives, and as such, their use is educational and generally considered in the category of "Fair Use". Images are credited with a link to the original source; images that are not credited directly come from the AccessExcellence educational website, from which I have obtained permission for their use. Quotes from authors are indicated by following the link will take you to the original source of the quote."

8) Protect your OWN work from improper use: Don't forget to put a copyright tag on pages you make so people looking at your page on the web have to ask YOU for permission to use images and text: a simple:

will do it - you don't need to go through any official procedure, like Library of Congress registration. Legally, once you write something, you have the copyright on it. The Library of Congress FAQ site puts it this way: "Your work is under copyright protection the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device." ie - a webpage!

Here is something I put on the bottom of my Good Fors: "The text of this "What is Biology Good For" exercise is copyrighted under the name of Dr. Kathleen A. Marrs, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003. There are no restrictions on its use by educators or by non-profit institutions as long as its content not modified, proper copyright acknowledgement is retained, and this statement is not removed.

THANKS AGAIN for all your constructive comments aboutthe workshop. Please respond by e-mail about our Fall meeting (September 20, 2003...?)

--Kathy Marrs