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Outline for 2YC3 Conference-New Orleans March 22,1996

Outline to "Independent Web Study Assignment

Preface: This is the outline of a presentation that I gave in New Orleans during the Two Year College Chemistry Conference (2YC3) on March 22, 1996. The handouts that were distributed during the presentation are available through this hyperTexted version of the outline.

Outline On Presentation Independent Study Assignment Using The Web

I. Introduction

  1. Origination of WWW at CERN

  2. Rationale For Web Assignment (See Handout #1)

II. Objectives of the assignment (What was the assisgnment designed to accomplish?) Provide experience to the student on :

  1. The need for information retrieval via the Net
  2. Various sources of InterNet connections

  3. Use of a Web browser

  4. Use of on-line searchable databases

  5. Use of word processors

III. Preliminary Instructions For Assignment (See Handout #2)

IV Individual Assignment Sheets (See Handout #3)

V Student Experiences

  1. Hardware (Mac)

  2. Software (Netscape Navigator 1.1N)

  3. Printers

VI. Examples Of Student Reports (See Handout #4)

VII. Student Evaluation

  1. Questionaire (See Handout #5)

  2. Results of Questionaire (See Handout #6)

VIII. Preparative Work For Assignment

  1. Initial Construction of Home Page

    • HTML language (See Handout #7)

    • Use of a wordprocessor for HTML construction

  2. Securing A Web Host server

    • Local Server
    • Distant Server

  3. File Transfer Protocol Transfer of HTML and GIF files to Web Server

IX Student Procedure For Accessing Assigned Material

  1. Accessing The Home Page (See Handout #8)

  2. Accessing Menu Of Home Page (See Handout #9)

  3. Accessing Assigned URL ( See handout #10)

  4. Future Alternative Assignments

    • Directed assignment to specified Web sites (first semester)

    • Element Research (second semester)

    • Assignment of a general chemical topic undirected and searchable in online databases (third semester)

R. H. Logan, Instructor of Chemistry, Dallas County Community College District, North Lake College.

Acknowledgements

Send Comments to R.H. Logan: rhlogan@ix.netcom.com 

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