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Session
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Readings and Resources
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Activities
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Tasks to Accomplish
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| Morning (A) |
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NETMEETING
(see handout in notebook) |
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If not already present, install NetMeeting on your computer (instructions
will be given)
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Determine your IP address
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Click on "Start" then "Run"
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In the white box, type winipcfg
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Write down your IP address
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Give your IP address to your partner
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Engage in a Netmeeting session with your partner
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First, try the chat function
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Next try the whiteboard
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Then share and collaborate
Share the document "french.doc" "spanish.doc" or "english.doc" during
the session
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Morning Break
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| Morning (B) |
Bush, ch. 5
Computer-Mediated Communication: Technology for Improving Speaking
and Reading |
Demonstration of Quickcam (if all goes well!!) |
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Netscape
See also, Lauren Rosen,
Teaching
with the Web |
Optimizing Netscape
(see handout in Notebook)
Bookmarks
See tutorial
on bookmarks
Searching
See: Foreign Language Search Engines
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Customize your Netscape
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Set home page to this course page
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Set your identity for Mail
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Create your personal folder (name it your first name) in the bookmark file
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Bookmark the course web site
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Bookmark Pine Crest School (http://www.pinecrest.edu)
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Add course web page to the personal tool bar folder
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Using the list of search engines, find web sites for your country as follows.
Bookmark each site.
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general country web site
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web site for the capital city
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site for a major museum
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site for a major artist
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site for radio or TV
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site for a holiday or tradition
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site for food or drink
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site for an online dictionary
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site for grammar exercises
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Lunch |
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| Afternoon (A) |
Bush, ch. 7
Learning Language and Culture with the Internet |
Online News
See: Online
Media
HTML
See: Basic
HTML |
Explore online media sources for your language
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Listen (briefly) to a news broadcast
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Watch (if possible) a TV broadcast
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Watch (briefly) a movie from http://www.broadcast.com
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Check out the SCOLA Insta-Classes
Begin basic web page using HTML code
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Follow the tutorial instructions to create a practice web page
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Save your page to C:\yourname
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Afternoon Break |
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| Afternoon (B) |
Introduction to Netscape Composer |
See tutorial
on Netscape Composer |
Create a home page (index.htm) that contains:
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either a colored or patterned background
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title (in the head)
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text
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your name
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your school
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language
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brief introduction
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links
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to Pine Crest
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mailto link to your email
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to the web sites you found earlier
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graphics
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