Students are expected to produce quality products. If a student meets the stated requirements for an assignment, but does it in a minimal fashion, the maximum grade for the product will be a "C". To earn a "B" or an "A" there must be reasonable quality in the work.
Get your NMU e-mail address and start using it for e-mail and accessing internet!
Send your e-mail address to the instructor by e-mail using the form that follows.
To: L@Ellerbruch.nmu.edu
From: !!! Make sure YOUR NMU e-mail address is here !!!
Subject line: CS255 E1 your_NMU_e-mail_Name/address
Message:
My name is: insert your name
My e-mail address is: insert your e-mail Name/address
If you wish me to use an alternate to your NMU Name/address, tell me here.
Make a personal link page. Put it in your special personal password protected folder on the Instructor's server Ellerbruch.nmu.edu as shown in class.
The link page will be your connection between the class roster and your assignments. You will put your assignments in your folder and provide links on your link page. The link page must NOT BE a fancy and complex page. It should take minimal time to load. It will have NO graphics. The link page must have four parts.
Part 1. Includes a title for the page and a header on the page.
Part 2. Has links to assignments as they are completed with descriptions of the assignments.
Part 3. Has links to any favorite or useful pages.
Part 4. Has links to return to significant pages (as a minimum you need to be able to return to the CS255 home page.) and identification information. Be sure to have your name and e-mail address at the bottom as creator of the page.
This must NOT be an elaborate personal home page.
The path to your folder will be:
http://Ellerbruch.nmu.edu/classes/cs255W05/CS255students/YourLastName/
The full pathname format for your link page would be:
http://Ellerbruch.nmu.edu/classes/cs255w05/CS255students/YourLastName/Index.html
The name of the Link page must be Index.html
Subscribe to the CompEd mail group.
LISTSERVER ADDRESS
mailbot@Ellerbruch.nmu.edu
LISTNAME ADDRESS
CompEd@Ellerbruch.nmu.edu
The following is an example of user named "John Smith" subscribing to the CompEd list on the mailbot.
In the "TO" field of a mail message put:
mailbot@Ellerbruch.nmu.edu
You can leave the subject line blank for subscribing to this group.
In the first line of the body of the message put:
subscribe CompEd Your Name Note - John Smith would write:
subscribe CompEd John Smith
After you are a member of the group you can send a message to all in the group easily. You must send the message from the same address you subscribed from.
To send a message to everyone in the mail group you would use the address:
CompEd@Ellerbruch.nmu.edu
Don't forget a reasonable subject when sending a message to the group.
Send a message to the CompEd mail group as described in an e-mail.
Download an e-book (electronic book) from Project Gutenberg, http://gutenberg.net/ or some other source of e-books. Read from it for at least one-half hour. Write a report and send it to CompEd. If you use a source other than Gutenberg, give the URL of the source.
The report should include the title of the book, your name and a brief description of the book. The majority of the report should be on the experience of reading an e-book, and your feelings about the possible use of these books in teaching. The total length of the report should be between three-quarters and one typewritten page.
The subject line should have "CS255 E5 lastName" where lastName is Your last name.
Subscribe to mail groups and send a report as described in an e-mail to CompEd.
Start a personal home page (it can be "fancy"). Do Not use large graphics. Limit graphics so the total size of the folder is less than 200K. The home page should be in a folder named P1. Install P1 in your personal folder on the Ellerbruch server and link the home page to your link page.
In addition to the standard title, header, date, return links, and author, you must have several paragraphs of text and at least two images or graphics. You also must have at leas two hyperlinks. Modify index.html to generate the page. Do not use html you don't understand. Do not use programs which generate html for you. Follow the form and format demonstrated in class.
Create a set of educational resource links for teachers. Have at least ten links organized by category. The links must have descriptions/annotations. Two of the links must be mathematics resources.
The ten sources must be from different places. That is, the beginning part of the URL must be different, i.e. different domain names.
Put the links and descriptions on a web page with appropriate title, headers, intro etc. The page and any related material should be in a folder named P2 and linked to your link page with appropriate "description".
Create a set of links for a specific group of students. Identify the age/grade level of the students for whom you are building this set of links. Have at least ten links. The links must have descriptions/annotations. The links must include material for students in mathematics, science, and language arts/reading (2 links minimum for each area.) You can include additional areas. Group the links by subject area on the web page. Do not use drill activities for all ten resources, max 2 drill and practice.Each link will take a student to web page(s) the student will be expected to use in some way. Your annotations should state what the student will be doing at that location.
The ten sources must be from different places. That is, the beginning part of the URL must be different, i.e. different domain names.
Put the links and descriptions on a web page with appropriate title, headers etc. Group like areas together on the page. The page and any related material should be in a folder named P3 and linked to your link page.
Make a page or set of pages of annotated links to games. There must be at least five "educational games" annotated. The annotations must explain how these games are educational as well as any information which will help in their use in a classroom. Information should be provided on how to start and/or play the game.
At most, two of the games can be "drill" games. No downloads allowed, no logins allowed, minimal commercials allowed. If your link is to a site with many games, make sure you identify and annotate individual games.
No more than two games should be from the same server.
Link to this main page from your link page. The entire project must be in a folder labeled P4 and installed in your personal folder on the Ellerbruch server.
The web pages should have the normal title, header, intro, author and return links.
Create a folder, P5, which will contain a web page describing a java applet game or simulation, age/grade info, the educational value and the use of the game. NOTE!!! Not a Drill called a game! Make sure to include any instructions necessary to play the game. This web page should be linked through your link page.
There must be at least one link from this page to a web page to run a java applet. The java web page does not have to have anything fancy on it, just the instructions to run the applet from the files in your folder. The necessary files for the applet must be in the P5 folder.
You may have more than the minimum in your P5 folder if the additional material is appropriate to the game/simulation project.
You may acquire a java applet game or simulation from any site on the world wide web which gives you access to the code for the game. Give credit to the source web site and the author of the game.
The entire P5 folder is to be installed in your folder on the instructor's computer, be properly linked and run correctly. It may be appropriate to check the operation from someone else's computer.
The web pages should have the normal title, header, author and return links.
Make a web page for e-book resources.
Provide a brief introduction to e-books and their possible use in education. Then have a set of links for e-book resources. Have at least ten links. The links must have descriptions/annotations.
The ten sources must be from different places. That is, the beginning part of the URL must be different, i.e. different domain names.
The web page and any related material must be in a folder named P6 and linked to your link page.
The web pages should have the normal title, header, author and return links.
Create a set of pdf documents for a specific lesson. At least one should provide information/instruction, at least one should be a worksheet, and at least one should be a sample quiz or test. These documents should look attractive and be well designed with nice formatting as well as have accurate content. Don't forget to include answers to any questions or exercises. The documents MUST be in pdf format. They should be available through links on a web page which identifies the subject and grade level, gives some orientation to the lesson, and describes the documents and links to them. This web page must be linked through your link page. All parts, web page and various documents must be in a folder named P7 and saved in your folder on the instructor's server.
The web pages should have the normal title, header, author and return links. The pdf documents must have a title and author' name.
Make a page of annotated links (at least 8 different sources) for a unit of study. The links are to pages students will use as part of the unit, not resources for the teacher to create the unit. DO NOT CREATE THE ACTUAL UNIT, only the links. Do include a short description of the unit and the age/grade it is designed for.
Have a link to a page critiquing some of the sources. You are to identify the three most effective resources and the three least effective resources. You should give some explanation for each regarding why you made the decision as you did.
All of the related pages you create should be in a folder P8 and installed in your personal folder on the Ellerbruch server. The main page must have a link on your link page.
The web pages should have the normal title, header, author and return links.
Design a web page or pages in html to teach a set of facts (knowledge level information) on an academic topic. Make it clear at the beginning what you are going to teach and then do it. Specify the age/grade for which the "lesson" is appropriate. Include "all" the appropriate facts for the topic you pick. You must do more than display "facts" on a page. You are not to go beyond teaching facts at this time.
The page(s) and any related material must be in a folder named P9, linked to your link page and described on the link page.
Make a tutorial using html for use over the web. You must teach more than facts, low level knowledge or algorithmic material. Your lesson must get at understanding, or higher for some academic concept. Make it clear at the beginning what you are going to teach and then do it. Specify the age/grade for which the "lesson" is appropriate.
Put the tutorial page(s) and any related material in a folder named P10, link it to your link page and describe it on the link page.
Use the criteria and design techniques given in class.
Design a web page or pages in html to teach an algorithm for something academic. Make it clear at the beginning what you are going to teach and then do it. Specify the age/grade for which the "lesson" is appropriate. Check with the instructor if you wish to teach an application instead of an algorithm.
The page(s) and any related material must be in a folder named P11, linked to your link page and described on the link page.
Create a set of documents for a specific lesson to teach a concept where the primary document is a power point slide show.
The main page must have descriptive material for the lesson and links to all necessary resources. Most of the resources should be available as various documents in the P12 folder. The main document will be a Power Point slide show for the lesson with instruction and links to resources and further instruction. Don't forget a title page and author's name. Some links in the powerpoint slide show should be to pages in your P12 folder and others should be to pages on other servers. Make sure you use absolute addresses in the power point document.
The main web page should be linked through your link page. All parts; web page, Power Point slide show, and any other documents must be in a folder named P12 and saved in your folder on the instructor's server.
Put it all together. FINAL PROJECT!
Create a folder, P13, which will contain a fantastic mathematics activity/lesson to teach a mathematics concept. DRILL IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH. FACTS WON'T BE GOOD ENOUGH. DO NOT plagiarize.
You should put all the parts of the semester's content together to build a fantastic lesson. You do not have to include everything we have done, but you should use multiple parts to create a noteworthy and high quality lesson worth 100 points.
This assignment is to be linked through your link page.
Include in the folder any materials, handouts, etc. which are used for the activity/lesson. These must be accessible from the activity page.