Lower and Middle School Links
The Main Summercore Web Page at www.summercore.com
DCD School Web Page at www.channel1.com/dcd
How to Install DCD Email using the installer from the company Softarc that makes First Class and the DCD server IP number of 140.239.109.2
Day by Day Overview of Summercore
Friday, September 8th, 1-3 PM presentation (required) and 3-4 PM question/answer, one on one and hands on time (optional)
Presentation on designing a webquest
Each Friday session:
"some things old ... some things new
some things to borrow some ... things due"
Friday, October 6, 2000: 1-3 PM
"We would like to continue with web resources and webquests. To prepare, everyone can read through Chapter 14 in the green book. Also, those with web access could continue through the powerpoint presentation on creating webquests on the website."
Here is the
direct link at www.teachingcompany.com/Designwebquest/index.htm
"I think we will begin as a group to reinforce skills and then break up into separate teams based on curriculum areas rather than skill levels to work on either creating a webquest or finding ones appropriate to use."
-- Lynne Schalman --
Friday, November 10, 2000: 1-3 PM
Friday, January 5, 2000: 1-3 PM ... emphasis on graphics in Appleworks and Photoshop
Friday, February 2, 2000: 1-3 PM .. hands-on exercises with graphics in AppleWorks and Photoshop
- JV Exercise (#1): along with your partner(s) pick a theme and find 4 pictures of that theme saving into a new folder on your desktop, e.g. Feb2SteveLynne ... make sure you save the URL for each picture on a notes WP file within that folder
- Extra Credit: going to this summercore link on the topic of "HTML Links, Web Clip Art and a wonderful way to make an animated banner" find 2 extra pictures (beyond your four) from ArtToday OR Barry's Clipart OR Tudogs
- JV Exercise (#2): using Appleworks paint tool, make each of the 4 pictures have a height of about 2 inches; create an Appleworks ONE PAINT WP document that has all four pictures on top half of page in in-line format looking nicely aligned and then all four pictures AGAIN on bottom half other page in floating mode looking something funky and NOT aligned
- Varsity Exercise (#3): using the Mavica camera, we will take a photo of you and your partners. Take the disk to a computer with a disk drive, rename the graphic(s) and send the file(s) to DCD Email to Summercore conference. Use Photoshop, at least one Mavica picture and one of your four pictures to create a Forrest Gump picture, including the URL in tiny writing on the graphic. This will get you involved in Photoshop including layers and various tools. Once done, flatten the image (changing file name) and save as both GIF and JPEG. Send back to Summercore conference so that we call all see it!
- Extra Credit: browse
Summercore web page on Digital Art for more ideas on faculty photos, caricatures and a few Forrest Gump pictures. Check out the links to other schools!
- Extra Credit: browse
artist Jim Barry course on line at www.blackboard.com; you can search for the course called SAMIAM and choose PREVIEW
- Extra Credit: browse
Martin Bridge course from Nobles ... you will need a login and password to get into this nobilis (school intranet site) .. send me e-mail via bergen@nobles.edu and I will do this for you ... steve
Friday, April 6, 2000: 1-3 PM
Friday, May 18, 2000: 1-3 PM
Contacting us? Steve Bergen and Lynne Schalman
- e-mail via summercore@nobles.edu
- phone via 781-862-8810
(even during Celtics games is okay this year, until Pitino is gone)
Notes from our three day Summercore 2000
Monday Overview
- 8-9: Presentation Mode/Introductions, Goals & Vocabulary
Click here for a Powerpoint presentation on Computer Literacy
- 9-10: Hands-On Exercise using the Web and DCD Email
Click here for a Powerpoint presentation on Internet Basics
Click here for a Powerpoint presentation on Using The Web in the classroom
- 10-12: JV/Varsity Split Up and Homework Assignment
- 1-2: Presentation Mode/Web Safety Issues
Click here for a Resource Page and Powerpoint presentation on Safety issues
and The World Wide Web
- 2-4: Hands-On Exercises using ClarisWorks or Microsoft Word/Office
Tuesday Overview
Twenty Five Participants from Summercore 2000
- Annie Wilson
- Charlie Huschle with webquest January 2001
- Colleen Melley
- Elisa Sidoli
- Ellen Tretter
- George Silvestri
- Henry Lapham ... attended
SC2000, session 2 general session
- Jenny Chamberlin
- Joanna Bemis
- Kevin Coakley
- Kristen Lofgren
- Lynn Barhydt
- Lynne Mayard
- Marge Farquharson
- Mark Jackson
- Mary Ellen Maloney
- Mimi Harrington
- Nancy Zoller
-
Nate Buffum
- Pete Rapelye
- Ruth Gow
- Sonia Valentine
- Sue Shirley
- Susan Glaser
- Tim Jackson
Pioneer Roles
Here are a variety of pioneer roles that might be appropriate. We would like you to choose ONE or more over and share in an e-mail paragraph with us when we close today. Over the next 12 months, we will back at DCD on a number of designated Fridays. Part of these sessions will be to present more "techno-quickies" on neat topics. Part of these sessions will be to do hands-on. But a significant part of these follow-up Fridays will be to work with you on the "pioneer role" that you choose today and/or modify over the coming months!
- (1) someone to get up to speed on MP3s and be a resource for the rest of the faculty: Charlie, Kevin, Susan ...
overview
and
specifics
- (2) someone to get up to speed on porno-sites and strategies for parent and families: Mark ...
overview
and
powerpoint presentation ... two starter "shadow sites" might be www.espm.com and www.whitehouse.com
- (3) someone to get up to speed on academic honesty on the web (yes we have a great web site for you): Pete ...
overview
- (4) someone to be a resource on installing first class from home be a resource for rest of faculty: Susan
...
overview
- (5) someone to subscribe to ISED listserv and funnel specifics e-mails to specific people: Kristen
...
overview
- (6) someone to subscribe to ClarisWorks listserv and share with faculty: Charlie
...
overview
- (7) someone to subscribe to the AppleWorks journal (we suggest you subscribe and that ONE person be the recipient each month, the designated pioneer)
- (8) several pioneers to become the expert on the DCD lower school curriculum pages that Lynne has made for you, making sure you explore all links and become the person who helps the rest of the DCD faculty in identifying and suggest appropriate links: Lynne, Colleen, Elisa, Kristen
- (9) someone to become the expert on conferences on DCD e-mail, learning how to change conference privileges, make conferences and help George with this aspect of First Class: Charlie, Colleen
- (10) someone to become the ClarisWorks resource, basically reading at least one manual/book and the being the person that others can come to: Mary Ellen
- (11) someone to become the HyperStudio resource person, basically reading at least one manual/book and the being the person that others can come to
- (12) someone to become the Powerpoint resource person, basically reading at least one manual/book and the being the person that others can come to: Tim, Kristen
- (13) someone to subscribe to Blue N Web listserv and then being the resource for the rest of the faculty: Pete, Kristen, Nancy
...
overview
- (14) someone to become the parent resource person, possibly offering a few workshops for parents and coordinating with a few faculty colleagues: Marge, Charlie, Kristen
- (15) someone to use a specific web quest with your class: Lynne, Joanna, Ruth
...
overview
- (16) someone to explore and coordinate adminstrative uses of first class for the school, e.g. work orders, attendance, calendar usage: Charlie, Marge
- (17) someone to create your own WebQuest: Kristen, Lynne
...
overview ... in addition, Lynne is the process of creating another way to create a WebQuest (sept 2000)
- (18) someone to incorporate the use of the web as a "regular, ongoing practice" into your curriculum: Lynne, Sue, Ellen (calendar)
- (19) someone to become the ibook resource person, ibook tricks, ibook web page on
www.apple.com/ibook...
as well as subscribing to the
newsletters
www.apple.com ... basically reading at least one manual/book and the being the person that others can come to
- (20) someone to be the software librarian compiling an annotated list of what DCD owns and sharing and occasionally advertising to the rest of the faculty: Nancy
- (21) someone to be the pioneer in creating a curriculum unit and set of quizzes on
www.blackboard.com
and trying out with your students: Colleen, Ruth
- one sample entry is involves chapter 1 of the summercore primer and is by us ... name of the course is CHAP1 ... you can go to this course in PREVIEW MODE and go to QUIZZES and take a sample quiz using a login and password of dunkin33
-
another sample entry is by Tom Daccord, history teacher at Nobles ... name of the course is HHC
- third one we are familiar with is called BEL121 and was created by Branan Gary and some other teachers in Belgium as part of Summercore 2000
- fourth one we are familiar with is called SAMIAM and was created by a computer artist on the West Coast named Jim Barry
- (22) someone to become the pioneer user of DCD’s digital cameras, posting pictures on
www.ofoto.com and and sharing with the rest of the faculty: Kevin, Sue
- (23) someone to be the "projector person" who learns how to use the projector, commits to weekly use in her/his own class and then becomes a resource to faculty colleagues: Nate
- (24) someone to be a pioneer in trying out the use of First Class with ONE specific class ...e.g. trying an experiment where ONE specific class of students in grade 6 or 7 or 8 is issued First Class accounts and taught how to access from home .. this teacher now posts assignments and handouts and resources in a conference .. students use e-mail and the conference for assignments .. this pioneer teacher reports to the rest of the faculty on how this project evolves
- (25) become the "personal trainer" for someone else on the faculty, working through a checklist of skills -- meeting at least once per week
- (26) Oversee and observe portfolios of all mentors and trainees: Sonia
- (27) become the "personal trainee" of someone else on the faculty, working through a checklist of skills -- meeting at least once per week
- (28) xxx
- (29) xxx
- (30) xxx
- (31) xxx
- (32) xxx
- (33) xxx
Some things new
- on your DCD email system, there is now a mailing list of one called Summercore Email that goes automatically to the two of us (Lynne Schalman and Steve Bergen) ... there are also ones called Bergen Email and Schalman Email if you want to write nasty things about the other person to one of us ... these three Email accounts are really codes for bergen@nobles.edu, schalman@nobles.edu and summercore@nobles.edu but they exemplify what you can do with your system, creating COMMON Email addresses so that people do not have to be universally burdened with remembering certain COMMON Email addresses that many people want access to
- on your DCD email system, there is now a conference called Summercore Homework that goes to a non-public conference that only Sonia and the two of us have access to ... but everyone has SEND rights to
- you need to send one note EACH WEEK to Summercore Homework describing what you have done with technology this week or what you are planning to do each the next week
- each person in the program needs to be either focused on AT LEAST one of the specified tasks; tasks (25) and (27) involve being the mentor or trainee of someone else
- there is now an "experimental calendar" called INFO CALENDAR on your DCD Email system for which the resume is a template for someone to add to ... I will share the details with whomever wants to do this, possibly Ellen
- I would like to try to get you to use the "RESUME" system on DCD Email whereby you can double-click on someone's name and get info from her/his resume
- There is now a Summercore (ML) mailing list for the 25 people who attended Summercore 2000; all mailing lists on the DCD system now have a (ML) identifier at the end so that if you type (ML) and push TAB or RETURN, you can see the "list of lists", i.e. the list of all mailing lists!
