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In the summer of 2003, I taught a course of 15
elementary and high school students in a week-long
"computer camp". We had a great set of people
who were eager to learn and well-behaved. On the first
day of class we learned about our backgrounds with
computers and the rules that we all followed at home
about Internet access. We all decided that we were
not going to do or learn anything in class that was
not allowed at home.
Software
Tool Review
We covered a wide variety of software tools. The common
thing to remember is how to approach software-- learn
the menus, use teh Help files, and remember that software
is logical. Most important lesson: you've got to waster
your time to learn anything worthwhile.
- We
learned FrontPage
in class, which is a Microsoft-based product that
is well-integrated with other common MS Office software
- We
also learned a little bit about Macromedia
Dreamweaver. This is the best WYSIWIG
editor around. You can get a free trial version
of it, along with other products, here
- We
covered Microsoft
PowerPoint, which many of the kids have already
learned. Good for doing animations and making crazy
things move. You can also publish to the web from
this application and just about all of the other
ones we covered if you have FTP
access to a website
- We
downloaded and learned Site
Spinner, which is the tool that we used to create
this page
- We
also took at look at Micosoft
Excel, which is a very powerful program for
managing numbers and formulas
- We
learned Adobe
PhotoShop and saw how software treats each object
separately, allowing us to control the properties
for each item. You can get a free trial version
here
- We
also spent some time on Microsoft
Publisher
Web
Site Hosting Resources
Just like we talked about in class, the most important
thing when approaching the Internet is to adhere to
your household's rules. These links are provided as
some possible free resourecs.
- Yahoo!
- good page-builder tools for free. A GeoCities
Plus account with FTP access will cost $5 per
month.
- Angelfire
- free. Lots of kids use Angelfire and there
are kids communities there.
- AOL
Hometown has free accounts with unlimited space
and free FTP access
- Freewebs.com
- free, lots of space, free cool layouts
- DMOZ
Listing - a great list of age-appropriate hosts
Sites
Here are links to some of the sites we made in class:
Other
Resources
Anything you need to know about the Internet is on the
Internet. And remember-- don't pay for anything.
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