what can we use our web things for?

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Our Bodies, Ourselves! On the Web! http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org  

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There are html basics all over the web! Google around for ones you like! Here is one (I will hand one out too!): http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/html_cheatsheet/  

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A website might be on a single server, with a simple browser interface. Or it could be housed in bits and pieces across several servers, in different places, worked on by people in a division of labor: the browser interface styled by one (CSS), the images and other "assets" located on another, and the text repurposed from one site to another as an element of content management. It is worth playing with various ways to author on the web, to start to "feel out" the distributions and "gatherings" involved!

[Image: http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/general-sl-discussion/40920-mainland-simulators-now-running-8-a-2.html ]

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Thursday 3 October, Prototyping: website creation and curation

·       Davis, Appendix 1 & 2

·       LOOK UP ALL YOU CAN ABOUT DAVIS ON THE WEB! BE SURE TO FIND HER WEBSITE AND BRING IN A PRINT OUT OF THE SPLASH PAGE!

Our fourth “flipping the classroom” Thursday! You MUST BE PREPARED so we can spend our time MAKING THINGS! Why are we reading these Davis Appendices? Why are we working to make something for the web as well as researching with it? If you have never made a website, you might start off with a Blogger version: https://www.blogger.com/tour_start.g  Blogger is what I use for the class website. I use Weebly for my professional website: http://education.weebly.com/ Both of these are very simple. Or you might like to build a site on Word Press: http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/  If you have already begun crafting websites, pick your favorite platform for something new, or enhance what you already have going with projects from our course. A fun site with easy tools for all kinds of web prototyping activities you will find here: http://easyedutools.weebly.com 

[Images: http://max.limpag.com/article/create-wordpress-theme-yahoo-ui-css-aptana/  &   http://jonghwapark.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/reflection-of-19th-february-website/  

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Katie uses different platforms, software, infrastructures for various purposes. Weebly for her professional website, Pinterest to curate collections visually, and Blogger for most everything else! 

Katie has been thinking about how to use social media for classes since 2007: her slogan is "Worn Tools: not worn out but warmed up!" to indicate that she wants to use media tools people are likely to know or to use in everyday life in simple ways. Her thoughts on this are in a talk on Social Media Learning, and in her classsites and talksites. 

She also uses the web to think about writings and collect her ideas, to organize links and other resources visually for her own use, and to have fun with personal stuff! 


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