WK 4/27 | Google Sites | Refining the Home page [4 of X]

Hello and Welcome to 
DLE Distance Learning

Week Seven of Shelter In Place
Google Classroom CODE for Distance Learning: g5hp774

Instrucciones en español

This week:

• This week we will be continuing our Web Publishing unit. We will learn how people expose their personal information without meaning to and we will both Improve our front page and begin to decide which personal  information we will share on our Portfolio pages

Announcements:

• Always look at the calendar HERE for the most current schedule each week!
• You must attend one live learning experience per week per class
• Friday Office hours no longer exist.  Instead email John for a 1-on-1, especially if you are just getting started  

Resources:

• The Unit Learning Targets can be found HERE
• The Unit Syllabus can be found HERE 

Weekly Learning Targets:

• I will better understand how media we post online can be used to identify and locate us
• I can choose which information to put on the internet myself
• I can reflect those choice on my Personal Digital Portfolio

Work Order for this week

Step ONE: Explore & Reflect

• DUE: BEFORE whatever ZOOM you attend this week


• TASK 1: Watch episode one of "Don't F**k with cats: Hunting an Internet Killer"
• WARNING: This show contains information about animal abuse but it does not show any directly and it is about catching the person who did it.
• The show is fascinating and fun but it does have disturbing moments and you are not required to watch it to complete the assignment.
• You can watch it on Netflix here or
• You can watch it via Google Drive here (con subtítulos en español)
• You do NOT need to take notes
• You only need to watch Episode One
• If you are NOT watching the episode continue to Task 2

• Task 2: Read about the technology used in the show to "catch the killer"
• Think about the following questions while you read (link at end)
• What information do you have posted online?
• Is it public to the world or are your accounts private?
• Do you trust everyone who is your "friend" on your private accounts.
• What information do you think a stalker/private eye could find about you from your social media postings?
• Now Click Here & Read: "How a Photo's Hidden 'Exif' Data Exposes Your Personal Information"
• Task 3: Stalk yourself
• Use the following tools from the movie to see if you can find out your own name and location from your photo's EXIF data and reverse image search.
• FIRST: Let's practice with a few images from John
• Use TinEye (Reverse Image Search) to search all three pictures below and then answer these questions
• Which landscape picture was plagiarized from the web?
• What is that man's name?
• Step-By-Step instructions are BELOW if you need them
• Click HERE for the Google form to record your answers
• Click HERE for TinEye
• Pic 2 Map (Photo Location & Online EXIF Data Viewer) doesn't work with these pictures below but it will with the ones on your phone!
• Click HERE for Pic2Map















• NEXT: Find a few digital photos of yourself (if you can)
• Find one near school
• Find one near home
• Find one on vacation
• Use the two tools above to search your own images
• Can you find your own name just from a photo of yourself from social media?
• Can you find out where your photos were taken?
• Could someone find your schools?
• Could someone find your block?
• Could someone find you?
• Bring whatever information you find to Class or Office Hours this week and TELL JOHN for CREDIT

Step Two: Synthesize & Incorporate

• DUE: Sunday 5/03/20 at NOON
• If you didn't create your Digital Portfolio site last week click HERE and complete STEP THREE before you return to compete this week's work


• TASK:
• You are going to fix up the MAIN or LANDING page of your Digital Portfolio
• Requirements: Use the example sites for inspiration
• Include a minimum of one professional looking picture of yourself
• take it now if you need to
• Expand your writing to a FULL PARAGRAPH about yourself - you can be personal or purely professional but everything must be school appropriate
• FOUR FILLED BUTTONS - arranged attractively on the page with your paragraph and picture.
• ONE that links to the EA Website (can you find the site?  Can you make a button that does there?)
• A second one that links to the the class of 2023 distance learning site
• A third button that links to the DLE class site
• A final one that links to John's Blog
• ONE OTHER element of your own choosing
• Image
• text
• or ????
• Process: 
• Remember to return to this page and check the requirements before you submit your URL
• Go to https://sites.google.com and open the site you created last week.
• Go to the video tutorial page and watch Improve a page: Making the home page better
• Check the Requirements record your URL HERE when you are finished.

COME to Office Hours for HELP!

WK 4/20 | Google Sites | I AM Virus [3 of X]

Hello and Welcome to 
DLE Distance Learning

Week Six of Shelter In Place
Google Classroom CODE for Distance Learning: g5hp774

Instrucciones en español

NO new work required until 

after Class on Wednesday: 

IF BEHIND:

 use Archive on right side of this blog to go to Week One and start the Google sites "Digital Portfolio" portion of the lessons so far. 

This week:

• This week we will be continuing our Web Publishing unit. We will add a page detailing our "AM" during the Plague times
• If you want to get started think about writing an "I am" poem but only about your "coronavirus" life (click HERE for examples)

Announcements:

• Always look at the calendar HERE for the most current schedule each week!
• You must attend one live learning experience per week per class

Resources:

• The Unit Learning Targets can be found HERE
• The Unit Syllabus can be found HERE 

Weekly Learning Targets:

• I will do some reflective writing and post it publicly on my Digital Portfolio as a Coronavirus Experiences Page

Work Order for this week

Step ONE:

Do ALL Outstanding Google sites assignments

Step Two: Adding a reflective page

• DUE: Sunday 4/26/20 at 11:59PM
• NOTE: If you have NOT complete the previous week's Google Sites work before you continue with this page and come to office hours to catch up.


• TASK 1:
• You are going to create a personal "I AM" Virus Page
• Requirements:
• One page, on your Digital Portfolio site and included in the site navigation.
• Title the page appropriately
• Write a minimum of THREE (3) paragraphs that tell some sort of TRUE story about your current shelter in place life
• Only write about your life AFTER March 13th of this year!
• Choose on of these three formats  or get approval for an idea of your own
• “I AM” Poem constrained to the Shelter in Place days ( click HERE for examples of I AM poems)
• Be a reporter and write an Article about living your life while sheltering in place
• Write a letter to a really good friend/penpal who lives in a place where they do not know about CV-19 or the Deaths or staying inside or anything
• + Propose something!
• Process:
• Go to https://sites.google.com and open the site you created last week.
• Use the same ADD PAGE process from last week's lessons
• PASTE the URL onto this form and you are done for the week! ALL CREDIT will be assigned via this form!

WK 4/13 | Google Sites | My [video] Life [2 of X]

Hello and Welcome to 
DLE Distance Learning

Week FIVE of Shelter In Place
Google Classroom CODE for Distance Learning: g5hp774

Instrucciones en español

This week:

• This week we will be continuing our Web Publishing unit. We will look at how the Class of 2023 Distance Learning site is designed and use that knowledge to help understand some of the organization and design decisions that go into making usable and appealing websites. We will then apply those design lessons to our own Digital Portfolio

Announcements:

• We have changed up the schedule this week to pay attention!
• You must attend one live learning experience per week per class

Resources:

• The Unit Learning Targets can be found HERE
• The Unit Syllabus can be found HERE 

Weekly Learning Targets:

• I will understand how websites are organized in branching outlines/flow charts & post that understanding on Padlet
• I will design the outline of my Digital Portfolio in Google Docs
• I will add a personal video page to my online Digital Portfolio

Work Order for this week

Step ONE: Reflect & Explore

• DUE: Wednesday 4/15/20 at NOON


• TASK 1: Go to https://envision.padlet.org and log in with Google
• 


• 
• Look for a Padlet called Website Outlines
• 
• Look for John's Post and read the text and look at the picture, then come back here
• 

• TASK 2: 
• Get a piece of paper, a pencil, and an eraser if you have one
• Go to the Class of 2023 Distance Learning site and draw an outline/flowchart  of ALL the INTERNAL LINKS on the site.
• Here's how
• LOOK AT THE EXAMPLE PICTURE THAT I POSTED ON PADLET: See how I outlined PART of the website there? (hint, hint)
• Your goal is to MAP all of the structure of the Class of 2023 site
• You stop when a link leaves the site (like when the link takes you to my BLOG - see the example picture I posted in the Padlet)
• Look at these two example pictures as well, they show two more website outlines
• 

• TASK 3: Go back to Padlet and make your own post with a paragraph and a picture!
•  https://envision.padlet.org
• log in again with Google if you need to
• Hover over the + in the lower right and ADD your own post

• TITLE the post with your full name (yes, even though it already shows)
• Go back and look at the home page for the Class of 2023 Distance Learning site 
• On your Padlet Post write a paragraph or more about the 2023 HOME page
• What do you see there?
• WHY are THOSE things put THERE?
• What is the home page trying to do?
• Does the front page do what it needs to do?
• How might it be better?
• ADD A PICTURE TO THE POST
• Click the camera icon in your posts's editing box and hold your Website Outline up to the camera - try and get the ENTIRE drawing in the picture.
• 
• POST YOUR POST AND YOU ARE DONE UNTIL LIVE CLASS TIME!
• 
  

Step Two: Synthesize & Incorporate

• DUE: Friday 4/17/20 at 11:59PM
• If you didn't create your Digital Portfolio site last week click HERE and complete STEP THREE before you return to compete this week's work


• TASK 1:
• You are going to create a personal My (music) Video Page
• This page is your musical video life as told through curated Youtube music videos
• ONLY YouTube music videos - do NOT upload any of your own  videos at this point
• Requirements:
• One page, on your Digital Portfolio site and included in the site navigation.
• Title the page appropriately
• Include a minimum of NINE (9) music videos that tell some sort of story about your life
• It can be chronological; "This was my favorite song in 1st grade, 2nd grade, etc..."
• It can be by topic; "This was my angry phase, this was my artistic phase, this was my K-Pop phase"
• It can be arranged any way you want as long as it is EASY to understand WHY each video was chosen to represent you.
• Be certain to explain BOTH why each video was included and how they relate to each other and explain something about YOU.
• Use THIS PAGE as an example of what you are trying to do
• READ what I wrote - most of the text is designed to help you create a unique design of your own.
• LOOK at what I did, then look at the design tools and figure it out!
• Process:
• Go to https://sites.google.com and open the site you created last week.
• Use the edit button to go into Edit Mode
• 
• On the RIGHT you should see most of the TOOLS
• 
• Switch to the PAGES Tab and find the New Page button on the BOTTOM RIGHT
• 
• HOVER over the + and look at your choices, then choose PAGE (this is the default action for this button)
• 
• NAME the Page APPROPRIATELY
• 
• When you say DONE it will create the page and put it by default in the Navigation
• 
• 
• SWITCH back to the INSERT Tab
• 
•   And look for the Layout Template that looks like this
• 
• When you click it you will get a full sized version on your page (you can move them around later if they are in the "wrong" place)
• 
• Click the + to search for your YouTube videos
• 
• 
• Click the one you want and then hit SELECT (PRO-TIP, search up the exact version of your video FIRST on the full YouTube site - it can be hard to see which version you are really getting when you just use the this box)
• 
• If you Click on the video you get some Settings
• 
• And when you click on the TEXT BOXES you can change the text
• 
• See where it says "Heading" or perhaps "Normal Text" above where you are typing? That is the way to have consistent formatting of text color and size throughout your site (and it is changed when you change the CSS by choosing a THEME - more on that later)
• Once you are done working for the moment - even if you are not finished - you need to PUBLISH your site so that you don't lose your work.
• You did this last time - look for the PUBLISH button and hit the ARROW next to it
• 
• Select REVIEW CHANGES which is the default for this button (I think)
• Your screen will look something like this the first time you publish a page
• 
• If all is well (and you can undo later if you need to) hit PUBLISH again
• 
• Now VIEW YOUR PUBLISHED SITE
• 
• COPY the URL
• 
• 
  
• PASTE the URL onto this form and you are done for the week! ALL CREDIT will be assigned via this form!
• 

COME to Office Hours for HELP!

WK 4/6 | Web Publishing | Intro to Google Sites [1 of X]

Hello and Welcome to 
DLE Distance Learning

Week Four of Shelter In Place

Instrucciones en español

This week:

• This week we will be starting our web publishing unit. We will examine where and why we go online, look at some history of the Internet and the World Wide Web, and we will begin to create our own web publishing presence by starting a personal Digital Portfolio.

Announcements:

• You must attend one live learning experience per week per class
• No matter what you have heard school is now back in session for real
• You will need what we teach you now to be successful next year

Unit Learning Target(s):

• I will understand the origins of hypertext markup languages and their use
• I will understand the evolution and design of the internet both as a network and as a destination
• I will understand how logical information structures are determined and built using web technologies on the internet
• I will build an online Digital Portfolio that captures and presents both my academic work and my personal reality at this moment.

The Unit Syllabus can be found HERE 

Work Order for this week:

Step ONE: Reflect & Explore

• DUE: Past Due
• TASK 1: Answer the reflective questions on THIS GOOGLE FORM
• TASK 2: Use the Internet Wayback Machine to look at how web publishing has changed over the years
• Go to https://web.archive.org/
• Look for the Wayback Machine Search Box
• Enter Yahoo.com and hit return
• Click on 1997 (when Yahoo.com started)

                

• And choose the first snapshot on January 9, 1997

• 
• Compare that early version of the site with today's version of the site by clicking HERE
• Ask yourself these two questions as you compare the two versions
• What has changed?
• WHY do you think they changed what they did?
• TASK 3: Now chose one or more of YOUR favorite sites and compare what they looked like as they evolved over the years.
• Here's a few interesting ones
• Teen Vogue.com came and went over the years and then exploded
• BET.com used to be an entirely different company
• NIKE.com has gone through a LOT of changes

Step TWO: Connect & Discuss

• DUE: Past Due
• TASK 1: Join the CLASS ZOOM Wednesday @ Noon
• Discuss what you found on the Wayback machine
• What can we do today that we couldn't then?
• Did anything surprise you?
• What features might you want on your own website?
• Experience a mini-lesson and learn some more history about the Internet and the Web.
• Complete this exit ticket [if you didn't attend class you can still use the InfoGraphic linked at the top of the exit ticket to see the "notes" from the class]
• Extension to Task 1: READ This
• 10/09/06 Google to Acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion

Come to Office Hours for help with Step 3!

Thursday 4/9 @ 1PM on ZOOM

Step Three: Create...

your own website on the Envision Academy Servers

• DUE: Friday @ 5PM
• TASK 1: Create an empty Digital Portfolio using Google sites
• Open Google sites
• 
• Switch to the NEW Google sites if your screen looks like this
• 
• Look for the rainbow + at the bottom right of the page to "create new site"
• 
• Change "Your page title" to be your FULL first and last name
• 
• 
• 
• Click Insert Text Box
• 
• Add some welcome text in the text box and play with the text styles
• 
• 
• 
• Name and Publish your site by clicking the "Publish"  button
• 
• Write your full name with no spaces
• 
• If your name is somehow taken add a hyphen or other unique character until it works BUT your name and only your name should be CLEAR in the URL
• 
• Click Publish again here


• If you get this page click publish again
• 
• Now click the down arrow next to the Publish button and choose view published site
• 
• Copy the URL 
• 
• Enter the URL into this Google form and you're done for the week.

Come back MONDAY after 4PM for the next Steps and Tasks!