Welcome to "An Introduction to Creating Web Sites"! This three-day workshop is designed to get you started on the creation of web sites which you can use in your courses. We will look at design, content, the "how-to", and examples of what other faculty members are trying. The workshop is run by Sabrina DeTurk, of the Fine Arts Department, assisted by Joanne Snarponis, of Audiovisual/Media Services. Special thanks to the Teaching and Learning with Technology Roundtable and to Bell Atlantic for their logistical and financial assistance in making this workshop possible.
Workshop Schedule
A schedule of workshop sessions, including links to related materials, is available on a day-by-day basis:
All sessions will take place in the Olney 127 computer lab and will run from 9-3, with a break for lunch around noon. It is recommended that participants bring one or two floppy disks to the workshop sessions, as it is likely that you will create materials which you'll wish to transfer to your home or office computer.
Related Materials
While no advance reading or surfing is required before the start of the workshop, the following links may be of interest to those of you who'd like a little more idea of the varied ways in which educators are using technology in the classroom:
The Wired Professor, companion website for the book you will receive during the workshop
Matt Brown, "The Current State of Technology and Education" (1997) - article by a student at Brown University regarding the use of technology in K-12 classrooms and also in some courses at Brown
Math 35 - a course web page from Brown (one referred to in the above article); ignore the log-in prompt, it seems to accept guests from the web
Vicky Phillips, "Education in the Ether" - article on distance learning pros and cons
Judith Levine, "I Surf, Therefore I Am" - a teacher argues that her (college) students learn nothing from surfing
Contact Information
If you need to reach me during the workshop or throughout the summer, I can be contacted via email at deturk@lasalle.edu, or by phone at ext. 5005.