Daily Guide for Tuesday, 6/29/99, Day 02

Digital Library Homeroom,

Web Institute for Teachers 1999

Bill Geraci and Sally Levin, Presiding

Daily Schedule

Plennary Session

Homeroom Session

Our first regular session!

Todays Topics

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Contents

A URL Change

http://cuip.uchicago.edu/wit/99/delta/

This Homeroom Setup

Mentor Expecations

If it's bad, Bill did it. ;-)

What else?

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Attendee expectations

• Attend every session and be on time
• Do almost everything you can ;-)
• Help us to help you and help the group
• Be willing to try new stuff and think in new ways
• What else?

What's WIT?

Overview of WIT 99 DL

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The Four Sections of WIT DL

Section 1-Computer Beginnings

Introductions

Been there! Done that!

Getting around campus

What you may not already know.

• Parking
• Lunches
• Questions?

Useful URLs:

A Map of the Univ. of Chicago
Parking Info
Campus Dinning
Hyde Park Dinning
Current Traffic Congestion
Cultural stuff in Hyde Park (no, I don't know why I included this either!)

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Learning Computers

What have you got? What can you get to (if you don't already have a machine of your own)?
What do you have in your libraries / classrooms?
Terminology
Use
Tricks and tips
The different kinds of computers you'll run into

Useful URLs:

 

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Section 2-WWW Beginnings

e-mail (if you don't already have it)

Do you have e-mail? Check it regularly?
What e-mail do you use?

America online?
Eudora (various versions)?
Others?

We can set you up if you don't have e-mail.
If you have e-mail we should promulgate that address to our group

What can you do with the Web?

Let's us show you a few things....

Learning the Web

What is the World Wide Web? How does it work?
All about Netscape Navigator
Different browsers

Searching the Web

Composer to compose web pages

We use Netscape Composer, part of Netscape Communicator

Saving your work: floppies and using our Servers

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Section 3-Libraries and the WWW

Bringing Libraries to the Web

We'll look at what some library and museum websites have done.

• Smithsonian Institute
• The Library of Congress's American Memory
• California Heritage
• More

And see how some have set up eectronic access to general information sources such as

• Catalogs
• Indexes
• Full-text journals
• Reference materials
• More

Section 4-eCUIP and Digital Shelves of our Digital Library

What is this and how does it work?

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Section 5-Your Projects,  Your Shelves

Now it's your turn!
Choose a topic you'd like to make up as your own shelf in our Digital Library

Something you'll actually be able to use in your classroom / library this coming year.

Form in to teams based on similar topics

Do it!

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Endorsement Credit

In order for a teacher to receive endorsement credit, they must inform us
during the first week of class.

Please ask the teachers in your sections if any of them want endorsement
credit.  In order to receive it, they must submit a check for $100 to the
University of Chicago (they can drop it off here) by the end of this week,
and they must do an additional project for your class so that you can give
them a grade rather than pass/fail.

Please let me know asap if any of your teachers want endorsement credit so
I can notify the Registrar.

Who's interested?

NOTE: This is *not* the same as Lane Credit.

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All those Workshops!

Here is a link and the URL for the main page listing the workshops. WIT will schedule workshops based on popularity. Some workshops will happen several times, some Homeroom sessions will cover the content of some workshops.

The Special Topics Workshops at http://cuip.uchicago.edu/wit/99/curriculum/specialtopics/index.htm

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