Day 1, Mon 6/28/99

Day 2, Tues 6/29

Activity: Homeroom (first session)
Location: Regenstein Library (JRL) 153
Times: 11-1

Introductions, Homeroom Orientation and Aims

Who are we? What's here? What are we doing here?

Introductions all 'round. e-mail and other ways to contact Mentors and others. WitList1 and more.

The place where our homeroom and other WIT activities will take place. Campus maps if necessary.

The equipment we'll be using: machins, OS, logins, software, etc.

Mentor expectations. Attendee expectations.

What is WIT 99 DL? What will we learn and in what order?

The Workshops tomorrow and beyond. Which ones should our attendees should go to? Registering for workshops.

Day 3, Wed 6/30

By pre-arrangement, attendees will go to the workshops they need

Activity: Workshop TBA
Location: TBA
Times: TBA

Day 4, Thurs 7/1

Basics of computer use

Whatever was not covered in the Workshops Wed. that our attendees need. [From the workshops:] How to use a Win95 interface. Creating files. Text editing (using Composer as an example). Saving, nameing and retrieving files.

[From the workshops:] Our servers and access to them. HTML as a file format and why you care. Using Composer.

What is the Internet? What is the Web? Using a web browser at all.

Day 5, Fri 7/2

All About Browsers and Search Engines

[From the workshops:] Netscape Navigator Basics (clicking and URLs). Advanced Navigator use (tricks and tips).

[From the workshops:] Search engines, introduction. Finding info on the WWW. Advanced searches.

Day 6, Tues 7/6

Activity: Homeroom
Location: JRL 153
Times: 11-1

Building a Curriculum on the WWW

[From the workshops:] Parts of a complete Curriculum. (review from plenary coverage from Craig). Practical examples.

How can you use the WWW for curriculum? Creating docs w/ Composer. Saving them to Servers. Giving out URLs. Integrating WWW into the classroom / Library. Accessability from outside the classroom and the implications (students doing work from home, review and use by colleagues from afar).

CPS/IL standards.

Day 7, Wed 7/7

Review up to now.

Day 8, Thurs 7/8

What is a Digital Library? What is a DL Shelf?

Charactaristics of a Library. What makes a Digital Library the same or different? Where do they live? Who can get to them? What do they have in them and who decides?

???An hour from Priscilla???

Some examples.

What is a shelf?

For the rest of our homeroom sessions....

Buildin shelves as projects for your teaching / libraries.

Attendees take on subjects and form teams.

Day 9, Fri 7/9

Everything you need to execute your project

Finalize teams and approve subjects.

Designing a eCUIP shelf. ???Ahmad???

Teams begin work.

Day 10, Mon 7/12

Activity: DL Homeroom
Location: JRL 153
Times: 11-1

Teams work on shelves.

Evaluating a web site.

Design charactaristics. Evaluating the quality of content. What makes a good looking web site?

Day 11, Tues 7/13

Introduction to Scanning [from the workshop]

Day 12, Wed 7/14

Day 13, Thurs 7/15

Teams work on shelves.

Day 14, Fri 7/16

Teams work on shelves.

Day 15, Mon 7/19

Activity: DL Homeroom
Location: JRL 153
Times: 11-1

Teams work on shelves.

Day 16, Tues 7/20

Teams work on shelves.

Day 17, Wed 7/21

Day 18, Thurs 7/22

Teams work on shelves.

Day 19, Fri 7/23

Teams finish work on shelves.

Evaluation of DL Homeroom, workshops and shelves.