From Frustration to Learning

As we begin 2008, it is a good time to look back and find those ahah moments. Yes, there were many moments of frustration. Yes, there were times when you couldn’t create an interesting opening paragraph. Yes, the HTML coding didn’t always create the tables that you wanted. But I would like for you to remember how you solved those problems and went from frustration to satisfaction. In your blogs please describe those times of frustration and how you learned to solve those problems. Use specific examples to describe those ahah moments.

Web Tutorial

Look for the HTML tutorials on the right side of the class blog. Click on the right arrow(play) to hear and see the screencast. Listen to at least one screencast and write a blog post about it.

Making a Difference

Laura, a ten-year-old, has started a website called Twenty Five Days to Make a Difference.Please read her posts. I would like to discuss with you what we can do as individuals or as a class to make a difference.The internet continues to be an amazing place. If we do participate we will follow the rules of safe blogging.

Guide For HTML

While creating a Guide For HTML many students noticed that writing tags created a problem. Students only wanted those tags displayed but not executed. Ben did some research and I think this will help. So write all the tags with the special characters and they will not execute the command.

What the World Eats

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World Hunger

There are a number of internet sites that talk about a world problem. One such problem is world hunger.If you play the word game, rice will be dispensed to hungry people by the United Nations. Another site is the Hungersite.com At this site you can contribute to reducing the problems of breast cancer, abuse toward animals and global warming. The internet, television and movies show us the consequences of the problem of world hunger.

RSS Feeds

Real Simple Syndication (RSS) arranges for blogs and articles of your choice to be sent to your reader. This YouTube video explains the value of RSS.

Cool Sites

1. Sugar Branch Tree Company
How does the design support its message?
2. Hudson River Sites
How is the site designed?
3. Apple Corporation
What tells you that you are on the Apple website?
4. Google

The Flat World

Another example of how the internet is changing our world. What is this woman doing? Where? What is outsourcing? How might this affect your life? Have you read Tom Friedman's book?

Links to Your Website

Each webpage should have a links column and link to the three other webpages.(1) Create the four webpages (2) create a table--one row and two columns and (3) place the three links in the first column.

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Microsoft Buys Stake in Facebook

Microsoft would pay $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook. At that rate what would be the total worth of this 3 1/2 year old company?

1.6%
______ = $240,000,000
100%        ????

See, Microsoft Buys Stake in Facebook - New York Times

October Calendar with Links

Create a calendar for October.
Review codes for columns.

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Class Project

I think you have learned a lot about web design , HTML, and blogs. That is the mechanics. Now to think about what you want to write about that we can publish on the internet. Lets brainstorm. Use Google to search for ideas. Let's make a list of possible projects.

• it can be about a book
• it can relate to what you are studying now
• it can be about another country
• it can be about a world issue

  http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/
  http://www.takingitglobalorg/action/projects/
  http://www.takingitglobalorg/understanding/
  
  

• it can be about a topic that affects teens
• it can be about..............

Begin to think about a topic that you can communicate about. Please go to a wiki that I have created where we can share ideas for this project.
Click on http://jjhsproject.wikispaces.com/period+4 for period 4 students

Click on http://jjhsproject.wikispaces.com/period+5for period 5 students.

Add your idea for a project. Read ideas posted by other students. To get started, click on the "edit this page"link. You and other contributors can also comment on pages using the 'discussion' link at the top of every page. When you are finished , please click on "save".

What do you Think of This?

My 15 year old boy, Evan Trembley, is missing. He has been missing for now two weeks.

Maybe if everyone passes this on, someone will see this child. That is how the girl from Stevens Point was found by circulation of her picture on tv. The internet circulates even overseas, South America , and Canada etc. Please pass this to everyone in your address book. With G-D on his side he will be found.

'I am asking you all, begging you to please forward this email on to anyone and everyone you know, PLEASE.

It is still not too late. Please help us. If anyone knows anything, please contact me at: HelpfindEvanTrembley@yahoocom

I am including a picture of him.

All prayers are appreciated! ! '

It only takes 2 seconds to forward this.

If it was your child, you would want all the help you could get!!

Katie wrote: Today i read a e-mail about a boy named Evan Trembley who was missing. He had been missing for 2 weeks and it happened in Canada. People can't find him and they hope the internet will help bring him home. His mother wrote this e-mail about him. It is very sad and i feel bad for all him loved ones.

After reading this i had a couple questions. On what day did he go missing and what were the details about it. What clothing did he have on and was he stolen or did he run away? I was curious and so i went on google and typed in his name. A website came up about how it was fake so i clicked on it. it ends up it is fake and the kid how was "missing" made it up. I think this is a horrible thing to do and it makes me sad for all the people who were worried about him.

Jacob wrote:

A 15 year old boy named Evan Trembly went missing two weeks ago in Canada. His mother wrote a very touching e-mail and sent it out to everybody to help locate her son, or so I thought.

When I first read the e-mail about a missing boy named Evan Trembly, I was totally shocked. I had heard about stories like this, but nothing in my lifetime at an age when I could understand it. However, after further investigations, I found out that the entire thing was a hoax and that the boy sent out the e-mail as a joke. The reason I searched it was because the e-mail seemed fishy because it was missing a lot of specific details that could help find a child. I can't believe how many parents must have went into shock thinking that this could have happened to their own child. I think this is a sick thing to do, and I am apalled. Below is a good link to follow to find more details. http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/e/evantrembley.htm

Web 2.0 Tools

LOGO2.0 part I
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Web 2.0 tools!!!! Free! New! On the internet! What do they do and how can we use them

Chessboard

Review of Tags

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Create a Chessboard. Here is the first row.Use Table commands.

Jeremy Z. created:

rook	bishop	knight	queen	king	knight	bishop	rook
rook	bishop	knight	queen	king	knight	bishop	rook

Tables

What is the purpose of creating tables? How does that improve the design of a webpage?
See if you can create these Tables.
Table 1

1234	air
gas	schedule
movie	dell
blog	flat world
india	china

Table 2

1234
gas
movie	dell
blog	flat world	tom friedman
india

One Laptop Per Child project

David Pogue demos the OX laptop designed for poor children around the world. Watch the video. Then in your blog, please respond.

Did You Know

Karl Fisch, a teacher in Colorado, has produced a number of videos that give information about the present and predictions about the future.He wants people to think about the way education needs to change to be useful. Go to youtube and put Did You Know in the search engine.

Should students be required to learn the capitals of states or the multiplication table?

How should technology change what we learn and how we learn?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWTLA8WecI

Links

William said:

Inserting Links
We started class by talking about what makes an internet webpage look appealing and interesting.
What makes a web page interesting?

Images

Text

Soriano said–“Boring” on Smartboard. A girl that I don’t know said – “Plain” on Smartboard
We then looked at another webpage with slideshow images and colors and the comments can be found below.
Other Webpage

Another girl I don’t know said:– “Interesting” on Smartboard
And another girl I don’t know said – “Colorful”
We reviewed how to insert an image in a webpage using this code:

<img src="URL link" height="100" width="100">
How to Create Links:
Links on the front page of the New York Times:
Advertisements
Links to featured articles
Pictures can link to information
Links are a door to more information.

Links have three parts:
1. bracket a href= bracket/a bracket2."URL"> bracket/a bracket3.bracket Clickable Word or Words

(a stands for an anchor, attached to a page)
(h stands for hypertext, click on the text and it leads to another page)
(ref stands for reference, referring to something)
1. anchor
2. URL--web address
3. Clickable words, for example NYTimes

Combine parts 1 and 2 and 3
1. bracket a href="http://www.nytimes.com"bracket New York Times bracket/a bracket
An example---Create a link to Google
anchor-----
Web address "http://www.google.com"

Clickable words Google Search Engine
We then finished up by creating a webpage with five links. We used notepad and saved it as links.html.

Insert Images on a Webpage

Ariel's summary

Today we talked about the proper code for putting images onto a webpage. Be careful to check the code for bugs! Otherwise, not all your pictures may show up. The class had to create a webpage through Notepad, and code 5 images. You should try to practice changing the colors of the background and changing the size of the text as a refresher.

The coding for the images looked like this:

<img src="sunrise.gif" width="1"height="1">

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What are some reasons to have an image on a webpage?

What is the HTML code?

Who Am I?

I am an american and am 23 years old. I became famous when I was nineteen .
I am an important person in the internet. Millions of college students and adults use my services every day.

Who am I?

When I first used Google, I was impressed because it was a better search engine than Yahoo. Little did I know, that was only the first of its many ventures. Today a rumor about Google indicates a bit about its business plans.

Tour of Class Blog

The Class Blog has a number of parts

• internet address
• title of blog
• an individual posting
• a display name
• links to blogs of all students
• internet resources
• and vocabulary assistance by means of Answers.com
  

Globalization

Today we began to look for evidence that the world is more connected. The US Open is just one example. Look for others.

Safe Blogging

Blogging has many advantages---developing your own ideas, publishing your ideas, and communicating with people in other cities and countries. However it needs to be done safely.
YouTube has a number of videos about blogging in an inappropriate manner. Click on the small images on the lower left to view the videos. You may have to view these at home since they might be blocked in school.

Classroom Rules for Blogging

• your posts and comments will be on the internet; they should be polite, respectful, positive and mature.
• never use your last name or communicate where you live
• your point of view should be presented in a polite manner
• do not post a picture of yourself
• do not post your phone number
• blogs should be written in your own words
• blogs usually have links to give the read additional information
• blogs usually have an image in the post
• some students write a short outline before they write in their blog
• review your blog before you publish it
• your blog should be about what we are learning in class

Other teachers have been blogging with their classes for a few years. Their ideas about safe blogging are important. Bud Hunt and Darren Kuropatwa ( see post from 9/7/2007) have many suggestions.

U S Open

I was watching the U S Open Tennis matches.

Player	Country of Origin
Novak Djokovic Rafael Nadal Maria Sharapova Andy Roddick Roger Federer Justine Henin Venus Williams Serena Williams Svetlana Kuznetsova

Complete the chart. What does it tell us? Go to echalk. I have placed some HTML code that you can copy and paste to create a table. Create a post in your blog.

The Beginning

Welcome to the class of 2011!.. It is September...Your First Week in High School...A New Beginning...I look forward to working with you this year. By next week you will be designing your first webpage using Notepad. Sometimes there will be bugs in the programs that you (Matt Penning)
create. It takes effort to correct them. Frustration is usually a part of the learning process. This is natural. All superior work requires effort.

Learning continues after the school day. Please look at the HTML Tutorial to learn additional tags. If you can think of a project that will combine the work of another class and this class, please let me know.

This is the class blog. Next week you will create an account with Google and create your own Blogger account.