Social Networking & DOPA

Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006
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The Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006 (DOPA) is a bill (H.R. 5319) brought before the United States House of Representatives on May 9, 2006 by Republican Pennsylvania Representative (R-PA) Mike Fitzpatrick. The bill, if enacted, would amend the Communications Act of 1934, requiring schools and libraries that receive E-rate funding to protect minors from online predators in the absence of parental supervision when using "Commercial Social Networking Websites" and "Chat Rooms". The bill would prohibit schools and libraries from providing access to these types of websites to minors. The bill also would require the institutions to be capable of disabling the restrictions for "use by an adult or by minors with adult supervision to enable access for educational purposes."

The bill is considered controversial because according to its critics the bill could limit access to a wide range of websites, including many with harmless and educational material. Arguments for the bill focus on the fear of adults contacting children on MySpace and similar websites. Many Internet websites, however (ranging from Yahoo to Slashdot to Amazon.com), allow user accounts, public profiles, and user forums, in accord with the bill's definition of "social networking". The bill places the onus upon the Federal Communications Commission to provide clarification.

My daughter pointed out this interesting article on Social networking. Certainly worth a read maybe more action in terms of curriculum...

Welcome to Sally Ride Academy '08

Note: I started blogging last year just in time for Sally Ride. Here is a link to that post, with some cool resources.

This week we will be looking at Office style applications and how they can be used effectively by students and teachers. This blog will provide you with links to the resources we use in class. I will be able to update it during class and you will be able to refer to it during and after class is over.

Syllabus:


Read or print this document online from Scribd, a free service that allows you to place documents in iPaper format and store them online for blogs or other online access.

Project Descriptions:

Read this document on Scribd: Project descriptions08

PowerPoint:

First a little background:

Click the link below and download the file as a text file. You will need to use the file to use for Wednesday's activity.

Sally Ride - July 14, 2008

Thinkfree is an online office app and here is a pep talk about online apps you can look at: Use Online Apps (From Thinkfree) Getting started with Web 2.0:



Here are some interesting Web 2.0 links:

• A Web 2.0 Directory - http://www.go2web20.net/


• Other Web 2.0 links.Blogs - http://www.blogger.com/


• PBWIKI - http://www.pbwiki.com/


• GMAIL - http://gmail.google.com/


• WriteBoard - http://www.writeboard.com/


• Student 2.0 - http://students2oh.org/


• ImageChef - http://www.imagechef.com/


• ZoHo - http://www.zoho.com/


• Thinkfree - http://www.thinkfree.com/


• NNDB - http://www.nndb.com/


• Thinkfinity - http://www.thinkfinity.com/
  
  

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What's an application? Where does collaboration and composition collide? Why use online apps?

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Using Google Docs - An Adobe Publication Google Docs Help Google docs on iPaper ( I didn't write this or endorse it but it seems complete)

HOWTO use google docs - Upload a Document to Scribd

Read this document on Scribd: HOWTO use google docs

Use Online Apps (From Thinkfree)

Here is a google doc with our Class activity

Please Try My Embeded Form:

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Here is the spreadsheet that is fed from this form. Fill it out then go look at the spreadsheet.

Class 6 - Resources

Alternate Directions To Oconomowoc

From Juli Garton:

Just a friendly reminder that our class tonight begins at 5:00 PM which is 15 minute earlier and will end at 9:00 PM.

Meet in room 213 of the Oconomowoc High School, 641 Forest Hill Rd.

Below is an alternative for folks traveling West from Milwaukee if I-94 is closed at Delafield.

Take I-94 and at Pewaukee
Exit Hwy 16
Take Hwy 16 towards Oconomowoc
Before the construction Exit Hwy 67 South (not North)
You will go over Hwy 16 and immediately turn RIGHT after the bridge on Armour Rd *
Turn left onto Summit
Turn right onto Forest Hill Rd – see sign for high school
Left onto Stadium Drive

Drive past the entrance which is near the Gymnasium and PARK please.

Room 213 is on the second floor and on the East side of the school. We took the elevator, but you can take the stairs that require you to walk up and then down ½ a flight to get to room 213. I will be on hand to help you find the room.

High School staff warned me that the lab gets warm with all the computers turned on, but today I would expect it to be comfortable based on the nice weather.

The trip from Madison may take a little more time – I understand that I-94 is closed. Last Saturday, Hwy 18 was also closed in one place, Hwy B and Hwy 16 had closures. Good luck on your drive.

* If you go to far and miss Armour – you will turn right at Summit and then left at Forest Hill and left at Stadium Dr.

Class 5 - Resources

JavaScript Handout and Examples:

1. Dressing Pages in JavaScript
2. JavaScript Demos

Java Demos and Sites:

1. Sites and Resources
2. Java Examples (For Downloading)

Class 4 - Resources

Here is a Presentation on CSS

Basic Style Demonstration files:

1. Simple Style Sheets (Internal and External)
2. Styles using Simple Tables
3. Boxes and Heading (Not used in class)

CSS in Blogs?

Here is a normal large Heading:

Here it is with style!

The normal Code:
<div align="center"><em><strong><span >Here is a normal large Heading:</span></strong></em></div>

The Styled Code:
<div style = "border:thick black solid; background-color:silver;text-align:center;padding: 10px; font-size:280%;"><em><strong>Here it is with style!</strong></em></div>

The Main problem is that each time you view the preview or post, blogger changes the code to "their"standard. It looks the same but may be more complicated.

Thanks to Ben Suter for the character converter. Check out his other tools.

Class 3 - Materials

• Final Project Rubric
• Assignment 3 Instructions (repeat)
• FileZilla Instructions (repeat)

A few quick shots:

To change the background image for a whole document:

<body style="background-image:url('blueswatch.gif');">

To change the font for a whole document put this line after the body tag:

<div style="FONT-family:times; font-size:18pt;color:white;">

A font-family is a prioritized list of font family names and/or generic family names . The browser will use the first value it recognizes so be sure to include enough description.

There are two types of font-family values:

• family-name: The name of a font-family, like "times", "courier", "arial"

• generic-family: The name of a generic-family, like "serif", "sans-serif", "cursive", "fantasy", "monospace".

Always offer a generic-family name as the last alternative.

Note: If a family-name contains white-space, it should be single-quoted.

<div style="FONT-family: ‘Comic Sans MS’,cursive; font-size:18pt;color:white;">

The line above will display Comic Sans or another cursive font if it is not available

To set the color and behavior of links in HTML

EXAMPLE:

In the head of your page put code like this to get white links, no underline and a change when the mouse is over them. When visited the link will turn red and when hovering the link will turn green. It will turn white after you click before the new page loads.

<Head>

<style type="text/css">

a:link {color:White;text-decoration:none;}

a:visited {color:red;text-decoration:none;}

a:hover {color: green;text-decoration:none;}

a:active {color:white;text-decoration:none;}

</style>

<head>

So Why The Same Graphic Twice?

Yesterday I posted an image that was made with ButtonShop3. When I got to class last night it didn't show up. Why? I'm not sure. The computers in the classroom were Macs. The format of the graphic in yesterday's post was png, i.e. portable network graphic. This one is a simple jpg.

Can you see the difference? The jpg is 4 kb and the png is 24 kb, is the png file six times better. I won't use png's any more.

CEd 533 - Resources

So where do you get a cool button? Cooltext.com will help you with the button or... you can buy a program that will do it.
The button above was made with ButtonShop3 from Kristanix software. Today, May 21, 2008 it is the GiveAway of the day. Check it out