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| 1 | Introduction Finding ideas for your technology projects. Merlot (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) database, the @one database, resources from the California Virtual Campus, ideas from Gavilan and beyond. |
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| 2 | From the Library Specific resources in your discipline collected and demonstrated by the Gavilan College librarians. |
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| 3 | Evaluating Websites Teach your students how to deconstruct a URL, find the originator of the information, evaluate the inherent bias of the website. |
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| 4 | Gavilan Library Limited Access Databases ProQuest for magazine, newspaper and journal sources, CQResearcher, statistics from Rand California, Medline database for health resources, CountryWatch, Meriam Webster Dictionary and Encyclopedia Britannica online, literary criticism, historical maps, and more. |
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| 5 | Design Design your website using storyboard techniques. |
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| 6 | Beginning Contribute Get the software, your connection information. Start a new page -- from scratch use tables, add an image, link to outside pages and publish to the web. |
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| 7 | Contribute Continued Cloning web pages. Creating web pages from templates. Using color as backgrounds and in tables, alignment and more about links. |
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| 8 | Scanning Images Add pictures to your pages, scanning from printed material. Use Photoshop to scan and modify images, save as .jpg or .gif files. |
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Enhancing a webpage
by adding images (using Contribute) Images from the web, from your computer, from a digital camera. Sizing, alignment, borders, copyright issues. |
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| 10 | Creating a website Linking your webpages to each other, and back to your homepage. Design, image and style repetition. |
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| 11 | Accessibility through Universal Design Basic accessibility requirements of users with disabilities. Alternative text for graphics on the page, considerations for color-blind readers, formatting a table for accessibility. Using the ACCVerify and ACCRepair software available in the Staff Resource Center. |
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| 12 | Communication Options Creating discussion boards and small groups using the forums. Theory and examples of collaborative groups. |
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| 13 | Creating a Welcome
Page Add an option to your syllabus or welcome page that will link to the online classroom. Step-by-step instructions to students on how to configure their login i.d. and password. |
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| 14 | PowerPoint Files I Create PowerPoint slide shows for reviews, self-graded quizzes, study guides and outlines. |
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| 15 | PowerPoint Files II Turn your PowerPoint presentation into html and, using Dreamweaver or another FTP program, upload the files to your website. |
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| 16 | PowerPoint Files III Turn your PowerPoint presentation into a PowerPoint show and using Contribute upload the file into your webpage. |
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| 17 | Modifying Images Size them, crop them, align them on your webpage. Turn them into links. |
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| 18 | Creating Forms Using Dreamweaver, create assignments with fill-in boxes, submitted answers to be sent to your email account. These pages can be used for assignments and surveys, or anytime you want to collect information from your students. |
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| 19 | Anti-Plagiarism Resources Search engines and Internet tools to check the originality of student work. |
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| 20 | Final Touches Add metatags so that search engines can find you, address tables and links at the bottom of your page. |
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| 21 | Indesign I Discover the basic tools and palettes used in this powerful page layout program. Get ready to create flyers, newsletters and brochures. |
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| 22 | Indesign II Create a 1-page flyer. Create divisions, use different font sizes, styles, and images. |
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| 23 | Indesign III Basic design for a leaflet. |
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| 24 | Indesign IV Create a brochure. |
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| 25 | Del.icio.us Del.icio.us is a web based tool to create a portable list of bookmarks you can access anywhere. |
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| Last updated
on
10/19/2007
URL of this site: http://www.gavilan.edu/src/ For questions or suggestions, please contact Jo Anne Howell or Dana Young |
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