Fahrenheit 451 update:

Brand new wiki for Fahrenheit 451 and the Big Read! Enjoy!

http://whichbook.pbwiki.com/

Email me at Sws2910@aol.com to become a contributor!

Happy Holidays!

Hi all, Sorry I missed everyone on Monday – it would have been great to see all of the projects and to say a proper “see you later.”

Issue I am having… I went to post my media lit plan on the wiki, I already requested to be a member, but I am not. So I was not able to stick it up there…

Be safe and have a wonderful holiday/vacation/time away from school!

Class TODAY

I’ll be waiting for you…let me know if you have any difficulties with making class today. Steve is working on being able to skype Andy so that he can participate in class from his home in Rochester this afternoon!!

We may need to work with one of your cameras. Steve will be in touch if that’s the case.

I look forward to seeing you later. Karen

Jon’s Media Lit Project

Hi everyone,

I just took a look at the YouTube video that Jonathan is using in his Media Literacy Project…

This is such a great lesson plan!!!  If you haven’t taken a look at his lesson posted on the Media Literacy page of our class wiki, please do so!  It deals with the Cobert Report’s interview with Wexler and a Fox News “clip” on that interview.  The lesson offers a great way to compare media pieces, and it shows how easily the news can misinform the public.  This is a great lesson for high school students, who probably feel that major news station broadcasts are our reliable source for the truth about the world.  Sofia

Make Up Class

Dear Teachers, We’ll meet on Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock to share our final projects.

Please let me know here that you will make it.

Thanks!! Karen

Is there any other way besides FETCH to get the website up?

Hi Everyone,

I’m currently at the Mann library at Cornell using their mac to finish my website, which is basically done except for my two podcasts which I need to upload.  I would like to post my site but this computer does not have FETCH, and I need an administrator’s password to download it.  Is there any other way I can get my site up?  Thanks.

Jonathan

The Makeup* Blog Prompt (week of December 9)

Ok, so it’s a tongue-in-cheek effort to keep us blogging, but here goes. Watch and respond in a 506 kind of way to this video. I think you’ll find it very interesting and a nice coda to our class. You need 20 minutes to watch!!! You didn’t think I was done, did you!! Love, Karen

*Ah, school as we know and love it–the boulevard of second (and third and fourth) chances…and shouldn’t it be!!

Part II–the blog quiz always needs at least two or more parts. Nothing could be more affirming of the work Steve shared with us last TH night than this front page story about area colleges and universities teaching in Second Life that appears in the Sunday Syracuse POST STANDARD. SUNY Cortland is mentioned and our own Dr. Reid is quoted. Do read and comment. K

The Makeup* Blog Prompt (week of December 9)

Ok, so it’s a tongue-in-cheek effort to keep us blogging, but here goes. Watch and respond in a 506 kind of way to this video. I think you’ll find it very interesting and a nice coda to our class. You need 20 minutes to watch!!! Karen

*Ah, school as we know and love it–the boulevard of second (and third and fourth) chances…and shouldn’t it be!!

The Nude Photo Story….

Dear Teachers,

There’s surely an irony in the fact that I came home last night after our conversation about safety in SL to this “breaking” story about high school teens publishing nude photos of young girls on the internet. This is Laura’s high school where a senior has been charged w/selling a cd entitled “Girls Gone Wild at C-NS” with nude photos girls took and sent to their boyfriends.

The D.A. said that he was most surprised by some parents’ ho hum reaction to nude photos of their young daughters (as young as 11) online. “It happens,” he quoted one of them as saying. Many parents, he also added, are not cooperating with the investigation.

We talked last night about how to insure safety in cyberworlds. How do we respond to this story? KES

Uploading Websites

Hey, All,

A lot of you have asked if I could tell you how to upload your websites to Cortland’s server. I figured that it would be easier for me to show you tonight in class, but for those of you who are anxious, I will post a short how-to. First off, you should click here and set up your account. After this, you will be able to sign into fetch and upload your materials to the site. OK, so I’ll try my best to keep this simple. You WILL need to do this on a Mac ON CAMPUS. This is how you get into the school’s server.

1. SAVE and then PUBLISH your website TO A FOLDER on the desktop. We’ve done this before–let me know if you need additional help remembering how to do this.
2. Open up the program FETCH on the computer. If you can’t find it click on MACKINTOSH HD and search for it. It should pop right up, and it has a dog-like icon.
3. When Fetch is open, it will ask you for a couple of questions–bear with me, I’m don’t have Fetch open and am going by memory. I will edit this when I get up to campus with all the exact info.–and you will fill it in mostly with the information that you just set up.
4. The server info that you will need to put in is studentweb.cortland.edu.  The username will be cortland/your c#, and your password will be whatever you set it up as.
5. Once you have signed into fetch, then you will see an empty box (unless you already have a website up!). Take the published folders of you website from the desktop and drop them into the box.
6. Congrats! Your website is now online and ready to go. The URL for your website will be: http://www.studentweb.cortland.edu/whatever name you chose. Mine, for example, is http://www.studentweb.cortland.edu/hedrick86.

I will head up to campus soon to get the exact information that they ask for when signing on to fetch, but I’m sure it’s just your Name (Hedrick86, for example), password (whatever you just made it), and the server name (cortland/c00238886).

Pretty easy, huh. See you folks tonight.