The student will spend one night using the Microsoft Agents. Module 2 of the second book shows how to script MS Agents into a toolbook.

Toolbook II has the option to convert the *.tbk file to  JAVA and HTML languages so that II products run directly on the Internet.   However, Toolbook’s scripting language: Open Script may NOT be used for books that run on the Internet and other serious limitations exist about converting files for the Internet. The Actions editor allows you  script books for the web without using the plus-in.  When running Toolbook II students must decide if they are developing with CBT or for the Internet.  If the Internet, then the student must save the work two ways: one for Explorer and the other for Netscape.

Attendance:

This course is a 50-50 course. It meets only ½ the regular time of a 3 credit class. Students are expected to work through the exercises described in the texts.

The instructor will ask each Level 1 student to give his or her word that they will attend every scheduled class.   Attendance is a must.   Each week assignments are due and an on-line quiz may be taken.  If a student is absent for a class, he or she has missed an entire week’s instruction.   Students missing more than one classes during the term must see the instructor outside of class time to investigate alternatives for the student and deductions will be made in the attendance grade.  If absent, the assignments and quiz must be submitted or completed by Tuesday before the next class period or it is considered late.  Likewise, each student who attends every class may utilize the additional weekend extension to complete a weeks work up to three times during the course. Up to 10% of the student final grade will be determined by weekly attendance.  

 

The course may be completed through self-paced instruction (DL) and the completion of the 17 additional modules for a grade.  Attendance is not required for self paced instruction as long as student-set weekly deadlines are achieved.  Student absent should consult for weekly posting:

http://www.hccfl.edu/faculty/john_taylor/cgs1871/spring04/74calendarS04.html

         note: (The instructor usually sends a group email on the weekend to the students reviewing the previous week and what will be covered in the next class.

 

Special Dates:

After the first few weeks, the students will prepare the quiz of the week using the CBT edition of Toolbook under the supervision and assistance of the instructor.   Each quiz will have a minimum of 10 questions using five different CBT Question widgets.  The quizzes are open book/notes, but must be completed individually without assistance from peers.  Each student will prepare one of the 5-10 quizzes developed during the term using Toolbook’s Quick Specialist, covering one of the lessons in the book in three textx.  The student will also be responsible for developing an on-line Lesson demo for that chapter.  These weekly quizzes (5-10 total) will be taken on-line, published on the instructor’s web site.

 

During the course, the student may be asked to complete at least  on-line quizzes from the Hustedd programming text using the instructor’s HTML template. http://www.hcc.cc.fl.us/faculty/john_taylor/cgs1871/71chap0qnt.html

 

Some weeks, two or more students will prepare a quiz, thus adding multiple forms of the test to the Course Quiz library. With a small class students may need to prepare more than one test, with the second test incorporating more multimedia.

 

WEEKLY Evaluations Assignments:

 

Each week (beginning the third week) the student will submit a weekly evaluation.   The assignment may include lessons from one of the texts or problems from the programming book., Students may receive each week a sample evaluation (when different from the programmed text) and directions for the assignment to be graded in form of a .tbk file on a disk.  The weekly directions will be posted on the Internet via email and a special directory will be created on the server to allow students to download the sample.   There will be at least 10 weekly assignments due and no more than 15 total assigned.  The class progress will determine the depth of the assignments, but each assignment is designed to take no more than two hours per week to prepare outside of class.  Up to 50% of the final grade will be determined from the weekly evaluations.  By the sixth or seventh week the weekly assignments should contain a small segment of the final project. 

 

Some of the assignments will be posted on the Internet. Each student will be given web space on John Taylor or Bob Harrell’s server. See FTP below.

 

Final Course Project:

 

Each student will author a final course project, which might be a game, a tutorial for a course or on-job training, a multimedia presentation of a talk, a data base management system such as a video archive, or some other courseware project.  This project will count at least 10% of the student’s final grade and no more than 25% as determined by a grading contract with the instructor.  This multimedia project may be prepared to assist another instructor’s course with CBT  supplemental material or may assist you on-the-job. The instructor will provide his Magic Numbers Game, Magic Characters Game, Electron Configuration Tutorial, Element-Symbol Tutorial, Polyatomic Ions, Periodic Chart, Lewis dot Structure, Discovery Wheel Assessment, Learning Styles Inventory and other Toolbooks as samples for final projects. Multimedia projects may use the “Help You Spell” literacy program.

http://www.hcc.cc.fl.us/Faculty/john_taylor/asymetrix/LrnStyWeb/lsikolbe.html Kolbe Learning Styles Inventory Questions

 

 

  

FTP Requirement:

 

During the course, the student will have to transfer many files (uploading and downloading).  The student will download an FTP program such as WS_FTP. Your on-line Mastering the Internet Web Yoda course has the following Problem #6 :

Web Yoda Mastering Internet Problem #6 - Download WS_FTP

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Free Web Hosting

 

The student may acquire either through his/her ISP web space or one of the free sites:

www.brandonfla.com (See Bob Harrell) or hccbrandon.net (John taylor)

   

 File Formats:

 

Windows as well as other Microsoft Programs allow the user to save files in a ridiculous fashion, which causes many problems on the web. What happens when a students opens a word processor or other application and types the first letter, is that Microsoft in their great wisdom creates a temporary name for the file which includes the first words typed or the title at the top of the page. This includes the NO! NO! spaces between words and super long file names. When the student saves the file, the student is to overwrite the program’s attempt to create these long file names with spaces and other non-letter/number symbols.  It is best to keep the file name to eight letters before the period and the extension.

When working with unsaved files, many programs such as HomeSite will make a back-up save, which includes a tilde: ~hs_80sylS01.html . The tilde ~ will truncate extra long files. The ~tilde in URL’s have a different meaning such as: http://www.ju.edu/~mbessma/ . Please do not use more than eight letters or numbers in a file name with no other symbols (except the underscore if you just have to have a space in the name). The instructor will forgive pushing it to 10 or 14 characters, but no more.

 Next: Do NOT use Uppercase letters, except as noted above to replace a space between two words. For every file the instructor has to view, which violates the rule of the class, 50 points will be deducted.

 

Grading Scale:

 

A = 90% or more

B = 80-89 %

C = 70-79 %

Under 70% is not acceptable behavior and may result in a D or F final grade.

 

Grading outline: http://www.hcc.cc.fl.us/faculty/john_taylor/cgs1871/71grdS03.htm

 

On-Line Grading Calculator:

http://www.hcc.cc.fl.us/faculty/john_taylor/cgs1871/71grdcal.html

(not functioning 1/7/03)

 

Instructor’s Right to Change or Modify Grading Procedures:

 

The instructor reserves the right to modify or change the grading progress as the course proceeds. No additional course assignments will be added.  Some may be modified or deleted.  The instructor will not add major examinations as a modification.   The instructor reserves the right to reassign work to students if the instructor senses the work submitted is not the work of the student. (No questions asked-The instructor will tell the student to resubmit the work to earn the weekly grade or course project grade).

 

E-MAIL :

jtaylor74@hccbrandon.net  and jtaylor@hcc.cc.fl.us

 

Each student is expected to have an E-mail address. Upon request a free email is available from Brandon C.S. department in BTECH 203 with a hccbrandon.net  Free Emails may also be obtained from Hotmail

 [ http://www.hotmail.com ], MailExcite [ http://www.mailexcite.com ], or Yahoo [ http://www.mail.yahoo.com or all other search engines and many web sites such as http://www.disney.com . Students with a private ISP without form mail access (remote site access) must also get a free email and configure the form mail to secure emails from the private ISP. However, Earthlink, Road Runner, and AOL may be accessed from HCC’s classrooms

 

E-Mail assignments to:

 

jtaylor74@hccbrandon.net and cc's to jtaylor@hccfl.edu

 

Subjects of emails must describe briefly the assignments being submitted. Please begin each email subject  with   74:  to represent CGS 2874 class

Sample subject:       74: first email

 

Instructor Requested Information:

 

On the first day of class, the student will fill out a 4x6 (or 3x5) file card to give to the instructor at the end of class or complete and on-line form the first day in the computer lab. The instructor has provided a sample below with his personal data and his block scheduled time.  The completion of this card is worth 20 points toward the students final grade;

 

Data Card (4x6 file card):       Front Side (Personal Data)

 

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Name:           John Taylor                    CGS 2874                

Address:      4417 Port Arthur Road

   Jacksonville, Florida 32224                     

Telephone:   361-4379 cell (after 9 or Wkends)  (Jax 904-992-2052)

 

 E-MAIL :  jtaylor71@hccbrandon.net     or    jtaylor@hcc.cc.fl.us

 

 Employment:       Hillsborough Community College   (1969)

     253-7936 (yes)   Full time computer science facuty

 

Major: instructional Technologies        Minor: Chemical Education

Long Term Goal: Educational Software Developer,

                             Webmaster, Operate Web Hosting Company

Prerequisite: CGS 1107/ CGS 1100 equivalent

 

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Data Card (4x6 file card):  Back Side (Scheduled Time Blocks)

Denotes 50-50 class (meets ½ time inclass and ½ time online)

 

On-Line Office Hours: 8:30-11 Mon & Fri:

http://www.hcc.cc.fl.us/faculty/john_taylor/office/office.html