Summary of Day Two

pink card summary day two

Link to Veronica's Powerpoint Presentation on Outlook

Topics for Day Three, Wednesday:

Carnival Planning, Therapy and Counseling
Let's Draw Partner
Our third student helper arrives: Welcome Kelly!
Lunchtime discussion on purchasing a computer
Techno-quickies: Downloading, FTPing, Inspiration and Front Page
JV/Varsity Revisited on HTML/Web Exploration
JV/Varsity Split on Spreadsheets
One Hour of Afternoon Ram Time

Can I get a quick lesson on Telnet and FTP (Christian)?
Absolutely. To telnet somewhere, you typically need a telnet address. Under the start menu, you choose RUN and then type perhaps TELNET BBS.NOBLES.EDU to access the bulletin board that I run at Nobles. To FTP, you typically make sure you have a free FTP client your PC, such as WSFTP or perhaps a trial version of CUTE FTP. We can practice FTP-ing into the web site that Bryan created for us on day two at www.fortunecity.com using an e-mail address of summercore4@isb.be and a password of won*****. Steve

Can I get some help on purchasing a laptop for my son (Rosemary)? Absolutely. Come join several of us at lunch, today, Wednesday.

Can I see how to upload digital pictures to the Ofoto web site at www.ofoto.com (Veronica)? AYes. The account at www.ofoto.com that has an e-mail address of summercore@nobles.edu and a password of ab** has pictures on it already. Why not take pictures today of the student helpers and upload those pictures. Brian can show you how to move the pictures from the floppy disk to your account on www.ofoto.com by using the easy interface where you specify how many pictures to upload and then navigate and point to each one using browse. Steve

What place do computers have in a kindergarten classroom? How would you suggest they should be organized? Do you think that kindergarten children should wear rings with binary numbers? (Angela)
Several great questions here. It is always important to have that philosophy comes before program. It seems that what "might be" considered important at the kindergarten level is for ALL kids to be given the implicit sense that the computer is THEIR tool so that kids with less financial resources get plenty of experience and so that girls use the computer corner as much as boys. Additionally, since too many of the computer people in the world are male, it is important for kids to see role models of female teachers using computers as important tools. Beyond that, there is the wonderful quote in the green book from Louisa Birch that she claims the computer provides her with better insights into the cognitive and problem-solving processes of children than anything else she has seen in 25 years of teaching Kindergarten. Finally, getting familiar with the keyboard is important at a young age since it leads to more typing facility in later years. Steve

How can I put an e-mail address into a powerpoint presentation or web page -- like a hyperlink for a URL (Marian)?
Here is the sample code. It is easy to answer this question by finding a web page with the E-MAIL feature implemented and then choosing VIEW SOURCE. Steve

A HREF=mailto:"Larry_Bird@nobles.edu" in brackets
then
Larry Bird
then 
brackets A brackets