CEEE GirlTECH ’05 Schedules & Training Materials

Goals

The goals and objectives of TeacherTECH

Computers, the Internet, & WWW

Navigation and E-mail

• URL
• Communicator's toolbar
• Bookmarks
• Preferences
• Setting up Netscape as a mail program
• Cache and History
• Printing
• Other uses for the Internet
• How to use the web in the classroom

File Management

• Using windows explorer
• Saving files
• Finding files
• Creating and deleting files
• Copying and moving Files

Managing Windows and Applications

• Juggling multiple files
• Using Notepad to introduce how to:
  • Open and save as
  • Move, resize, minimize, maximize
  • Copy/paste between windows

Tips on Web Page Design

• HTML 4 for the World Wide Web
• Basic items you need to get started
• What is a webpage
• Basic HTML, Part 1
• More HTML
• File structure
• File structure word document
• Creating links
• Counters
• Helpful sites for HTML editing
• Cool Java stuff
• Adding sound
• Adding video
• Dreamweaver
• Dowloading trial version
• Homepage template
• Relative and absolute links
• Meta tags
• Creating forms
• Color coordinate your site
• Uploading your site
• Adding sound
• Adding video
• Lesson Page
• Lesson template
• SamplelLessons
• Funbrain's Quiz Lab Design
• Hot Potatoes Quiz Maker
• Discovery's On-line Puzzlemaker
• Graphics
• Graphics Part I
• Graphics Part II
• Editing images, Part I
• Editing images, Part II
• Intro to interactive images
• Image maps
• Photoshop tips and tricks
• Thumbnails
• Free clip art
• Microsoft animator
• File Transfer
• WS-FTP
• Fetch
• Searching
• Simple search techniques
• Advanced search techniques
• Educational sites
• Permissions and Copyrights
• Copyrights
• 10 Big myths about copyright explained
• Copyright laws and the Internet
• The Columbia guide to onlinesStyle
• Beyond the MLA handbook

• Educating Girls in the Computer Age
• The Gender Gap in High Tech
• Getting Girls Interested in Computers
• Getting Girls Interested in Computer Science
• No Child Left Behind
• TechSavvy (pdf)
• Texas K-12 Educational System, Should It Be a National Model?
• Why Girls Don't Compute

Taking the Next Step

• Stuff About Grants
• Writing Grants