WEBSITE AND CD INSTRUCTIONS
Office: Parlin 132
I will be having office hours FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 13: Sunday, APRIL 13, by appointment from 11 to 1:30 and after 2:45; Tuesday, 9:45-10:45 and 1:15 to 1:45 and after 3:30 by appointment; Wednesday by appointment until 2:30 and after 5:30; and Thursday, 9:45-10:45 and 1:15 to 1:45 and after 3:30 by appointment.
"In fact, eligibility for professional and managerial positions hinges more on social and personal attributes than having taken specific courses. It is here that having been at college teaches young people to fit into middle-class milieus. Among the qualities are diction and demeanor, verbal fluency, a more polished presence, along with knowing how to analyze assignments and carry them out." {1}
{1}Andrew Hacker, "They'd Much Rather Be Rich," review of five books, New York Review of Books, LIV, no. 15 (Oct. 11, 2007): 31 -34, p. 34.
Digital Literacy Assignments
1. the assignment of creating an index file to one's projects and then placing said file and both projects and all related files on a CD and burning it in such a way that it can be read by any computer.
1a. Convert your projects into web (html) files. If you have not written your project in a web-site-creation program such as iWEB, Dreamweaver, or Front Page you will need to convert your file(s) into web files, that is, "htm" or "html" files. Most students use Microsoft Word for word processing, so we will use that as our example. After you have written your project and inserted the pictures, with captions, find the "Save as Web file" option in Word. (If your word processing program does not have this option, see the instructor.) Use the "Save as Web file" option. Make sure your file ends in "htm" or "html," not "mht" or "doc" or "docx" or "wps." (You can not just type "htm" at the end of the file name because that alone won't make the file accessible to the web.) If the resulting file name is long or contains spaces, shorten it. Generally, make file names and folder names as brief as possible to avoid transcription errors later. For example, P1A.doc, rather than "Project One about .......... doc." At the next stage then you will have P1A.htm rather than Project One about .......... Brevity is especially important for folder names on Webspace because they will precede file names."
1b. Making the Index File.**Before you make the index file you should have all the files you want in your portfolio in a single folder. You create your index file inside that folder also. Then when you are done you simply transfer the contents of that folder to a CD.
To make an index file your first choice should be a website creation program such as Dreamweaver.
Without such a program you can either use Notepad or Textedit to modify someone else's index file such as the ones below. To do the latter just find a portfolio index page you like and then in, say, Firefox, go to "View" and select "Page Source." Then when the code appears, go to "Edit" and then "Select All" and then "Copy." Now go to Notepad or Textedit and "Paste" in the code. Then make the changes in the file names and item names to make it your own.
To use Microsoft Word, you create a document called “index” and your your goal is to create your list of all the items in your portfolio (in the specified order) and then select each item one by one and select "Insert" and then "Hyperlink." When “Hyperlink” comes up, go to the “Link To” option space and type in the name of the file exactly as it appears inside your folder. DO NOT put the name of any path in front of the file.
1c. Eventually, you will need to make a CD. Then you need to make sure it works it on a different computer and check the results. If you use a PC check your index file on a Mac. This is the only effective way to make sure your site is working properly.
IF YOU ARE USING A NEW PC RUNNING VISTA EXPECT THAT MICROSOFT WILL TRY TO
SABOTAGE ANY MAC-READABLE VERSION YOU WILL TRY TO CREATE AND PUT ON A CD.
You may be able to circumvent Bill Gates’s sabotage by creating the CD using
the browser or pop up options instead of the drag and drop options. Ironically,
the drag and drop options, which were copied from Macs, do indeed prevent
all Macs from reading the CD. Support DIVERSITY in the computer world as
well!
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