How to Create a Course Homepage that Makes Classroom Instruction More Effective

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Why bother with a course homepage?
• Creating a course homepage that supplements class instruction
• One powerful set of simple web authoring tools
  • Mac
  • Windows 95
• A quick demonstration
  • Creating a handout from scratch using PageMill and screen shots
  • Creating a handout from an MS Word document
• WWW fundamentals
  • HTML Basics
  • Absolute and relative paths
  • Authoring vs. serving a homepage
• Organization
  • Content
  • Folder structure
• Using PageMill to create a course homepage
  • Download a PageMill template
  • Getting Started
  • Adding material
  • From year to year
• Taking screen shots
  • Using Flash-it (for Macintosh)
  • Using L-View Pro (for Windows 95)
• Putting data on the web as text files
  • Placing an Excel file on the Internet as a text file
  • Retrieving a text data file to Excel
  • Placing a JMP file on the Internet as a text file
  • Retrieving a text data file to JMP
• Sharing your material with the Internet community
• Appendix: 97 Joint Statistical Meetings Activities
  • Description of Workshop Offering
  • Invited Paper Session on Related Subject:
    "Use of the World Wide Web to Support Classroom Instruction"

Workshop home page Table of contents

Ramón V. León (rleon@utk.edu) Lance E. Milner (lmilner@utk.edu)