CGS 2874 e-Learning Schedule
Week Date Assignments
0 Campus: 
1/13

 


register current email with John Taylor or obtain free email account with no ads from John Taylor

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view syllabus on the web:
http://www.hccfl.edu/faculty/john_taylor/cgs2874/74sylS04.htm

demonstrate ToolBookII Instructor 8.6

Introduce TurboHAL (Home Page):
TurboHAL Home Page:
http://www.hccbrandon.net/turbohal/turbohal.html
Links to DOS TurboHALprogram; Karel,the Robot links, HTML Table template for Elem Hal Maze, Video of Students performing 3-D HAL at HCC,

The League TurboHAL Presentation and Key Links:
http://www.hccfl.edu/faculty/john_taylor/league/league3.html

send first e-mail to:
jtaylor@hccfl.edu;
jtaylor74@hccbrandon.net;
subject: 74: first email
describe your background, your major, why you are taking this course, if you have a web site, include the URL. Do you need free web space? Did you take CGS 1871? If yes, then at Brandon or Dale Mabry? Have you used ToolBook?

Install ToolBook at Home (30 day free down load, or Student edition $99 may be purchased from Click2Learn which is 12 month complete access or see instructor about other alternatives to access ToolBook at home or in labs BTECH 216 or Btech 217 at Brandon campus.

Those students from Dale Mabry campus who took CGS 1871 will need to work through Module 1, 4, 7 of the CGS 1871 text which is also being used in CGS 2874. During the first three weeks of the course you should get up to speed on ToolBook fundamentals.
1 Campus: 
1/20 

No Classes 1/19/04 MLK Holiday

Student Contacts:
http://www.hccfl.edu/faculty/john_taylor/cgs2874/spring04/74atdS04.htm

Read a chapter on introduction to Programming from a CGS 1100 text to familiarize your selft with programming structures of Sequence, Selection, and repetition. Prentice Hall will allow you to read a chapter in production of a new Technology in Action text during the Spring Term 2004 only. You will be required to complete a survey in exchange for the use of the chapter. The chapter may be accessed with Adobe Reader at:
http://www.hccfl.edu/faculty/john_taylor/cgs2874/programming/TIA_chapter10.pdf

View intro to Turbo HAL Power Point at:
http://www.hccfl.edu/faculty/john_taylor/league/logicrally_files/frame.htm

Programming Structures:
  • Sequence (Slides 21-22)
    Complete a Elementary Turbo HAL Maze:
    http://www.hccbrandon.net/turbohal2/elhal.html
    Send email: Subject: 74:
    Turbo HAL Elementary     (Body:Include Maze #, # of instructions used)
  • Selection (Slides 23-24-25)
  • Repetition (Slides 26-30):
    Complete Either Advanced Turbo HAL or Logic Rally Maze, by crating your own maze, then writing a solution. You should define a procedure that includes a Selection (Slide #34) and at least one Repetition (Slide #35 and 36)
    http://www.hccbrandon.net/halstr12.html

    Three Phases of Turbo HAL:

  • Enter: "Test5" for Student Name, then Press Retrieve

  • Enter: "Test6" for Student Name, Enter "Test6" for Password, then press Retrieve

  • press New Game Create your game by adding walls, beepers, and HAL then your write your solution. Save your game under your name and password and select John Taylor as your instructor
    • Type the following student IDs for other Mazes:
    al    james     jeff     justin2     max     sarah     test5
or

Logic Rally

http://www.falkensteins.info/logicrally.html

Online Logic Rally Improved Version with Many Changes (adds turnright primitive)(You must enter a minimum of 125 walls in your Maze)

Same three phases as above except that it allows students to make multiple activities under the same name. The maze identity is accessed through the Table Name. Use student 's101', either table 'testval3' or 'testval4' with a password of 'yahoo'.

If you have problems with saving a Logic Rally, Al Falkenstein suggests in this email:

Ranjana,

You can save it under the "visitor" id, with a password of "visitor", and a section of "11513'. You may save the table under any name you desire,but you must remember what you saved it under.

Al Falkenstein

Sample of Student's Email and Homework


Read text: Module 1 p1-68 thru 1-71 for OpenScript Introduction. Module 6 is a chapter on Open scripting which will be covered after the Actions editor

Read text: Module 1 p1-75 Intro to Actions Editor

download and install: Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/

2 Campus:
1/27 		Read Page 1-1 thru page 1-52 in Tom Hall's Text Supplement.

Pickup Hand OUTs Lessons 1,2,3,4 from training manual. Read Lessons 1,2,3.

In Lesson two create an actions editor event which will alter the properties of text or some other objects.

In Lesson 3 create hide and show of text fields, graphics, and or buttons for some meaningful book. Refer to Module 2 of the text. Recreate a toolbook that is more interactive to teach a receipt in Paint Shop Pro or photoShop. i.e. Making a color transparent in an image, Feathering a photo, etc

Help create a Lesson on a Hollywood famous Robot (for TurboHAL web site): Mr. Data from Star Trek; Gort from "the Day the Earth Stood Still"; Robbie the Robot from the "Forbidden Planet" later the Lost in Space TV series in the 1960s; R2D2 or CPO from Star Wars films; RoboCop is full of Robots including the Star; The Last Star Fighter had a humanoid robot plus!; do not forget the Terminator flicks with Arnold, etc. If you really have archive access, there were robots in Flash Gordon serials of the 1930s and even a Gene Autry western in the late 30s or early 40s introduced Tudor the Robot, one of Hollywood's first. Can you add some more!

Another lesson that your instructor is working on deals with his Magic Number GAME TUTORIAL. Download (on a machine without toolbook) the Native Book:
http://www.hccfl.edu/faculty/john_taylor/magictbk/magicTut.tbk

The actions editor conversion of magicTut.tbk:
http://www.hccfl.edu/faculty/john_taylor/magtutacteditor/magictutae.tbk

log-on to WebCT account to test it out (nothing is posted for course)
My WebCT

Your WebCT ID will be the first initial of your first name and the first initial of your last name, combined with your seven digit Student ID number (NOT Your SS#) for example:
John Taylor's user name would be jt1234567

Important Note: Your initials are case sensitive and must be in lower case.

Your password is your six digit birthday. For example if you were born on July 7, 1977, your password would be 070777
3 Campus:
2/3

4 Campus:
2/10
Lesson 3 Handout:
5 Campus:
2/17 		Handout Lesson 4 & 5. Go Over Hide and Show in AE and OS. Work on Magic Games Tutorial script for hide and show.
6 Campus:  
2/24 		Handouts from Tom Hall's New Book (Modules 2 & 3) were passed out, Please purchase this book for the last two chapters for the second half of the course:
The Actions Editor, HTTP Post, and Simulations in ToolBook Instructor 2004
http://tcc-pub.com/ Tom L. Hall; TCC Publishing;
Cost: $42.50 plus shipping and handling

Read Module 2 handout. Obtain the MSAgent disk if you lost yours from last sesmester. We want to integrate an agent into a Native Book using OpenScript and also into a DHTML deployed book. The directions for OpenScript may also be found at:
Tom Hall's Agent Page for ToolBook:
http://tcc-pub.com/agents/agents.htm

Scripts for ToolBook Users:
http://www.hcc.cc.fl.us/faculty/john_taylor/msagents/mstoolbook.html

There is a toolbook creaded by Brian Hirst that you may download from Tom Hall's site: ftp://tcc-pub.com/pub/agents/atool.zip which Tom modified. However, I ran the script updater so that this script will run in version 8.6 and I posted it at (you must rename and remove the x from the .tbkx extention (Why do .tbk files open on you computer and our lab machines, but Internet Explorer will not open the file on other machines?): http://www.hccfl.edu/faculty/john_taylor/asymetrix/UsingMSagentHirsh/atool2k.tbkx

Brian made a presentation at TBCON 2000. It has some directions and sample pages he created with his tool. You can download the file and you must remove the x from the extention .tbkx.
http://www.hccfl.edu/faculty/john_taylor/asymetrix/UsingMSagentHirsh/msagent.tbkx

M.E. Yoder wrote a manual for integrating ToolBook with OpenScript for version 6.1 many years ago for $35. I will purchase it and see if I can pickup some more tips. Virginia Bender used her manual to design her book. She has a chapter for using the two or more agents that Virginia used:
http://www.pyramid.net/roundup/Toolbook/

Download Tom Hall's Agent Custom Catalog. Unzip this file (agent.zip) and copy it to your Catalog Directory of ToolBook. This will be a new experience. Look up how to import your own catalog objects into your toolbook program. Here's the ftp site: ftp://tcc-pub.com/pub/agents/agent.zip(You need to run version updater utility)

We will use MASH to put a script into a finished book using a HTML editor like HomeSite. And then we will follow Tom's directions on pages: 2-31 thru 2-35 to put an agent's javascript into a toolbook, using the Actions Editor in ToolBook 2004.

Download MASH: http://www.bellcraft.com/mash/
7 Campus:
3/3 		Continue to Integrate MSagents into ToolBook via Actions Editor and OpenScript. Create a separate directory for the following file. Look at Virginia Bender's tbcon2001vbb.tbk file:

http://www.hccfl.edu/faculty/john_taylor/asymetrix/20things/tbcon2001vbb.tbkx

Download the file as a .tbkx, then rename the file removing the 'x' from the extention. On page 1 and page 19 are microsoft agents files. On page 19 is a dialog with three agents. However, in the Book script she requires all four original Microsoft agents (Robby is not used). You must also download the .acs files of each of the four agents and place them in the same directory.How would you modify the script to remove the need for Robby's .acs file needed to start the book? Hint: look at the book script!

http://www.hccfl.edu/faculty/john_taylor/asymetrix/20things/merlin.acs
http://www.hccfl.edu/faculty/john_taylor/asymetrix/20things/peddy.acs
http://www.hccfl.edu/faculty/john_taylor/asymetrix/20things/genie.acs
http://www.hccfl.edu/faculty/john_taylor/asymetrix/20things/robby.acs

Note the book script and creation of the viewer so that the agent will play in a viewer on any page. Also note the invisible button on the page with the dialog. Can you find the hidden button on page 1 and 19 and the script which triggers the buitton without clicking the button. Great script, Virginia is an excellent ToolBooker and teacher.
8 Campus:
3/10 		 Spring Break 
9 Campus:
3/17:
Demo using Actions Editor in a Microsoft Agent from pages 2-31 through 2-35 Module 2 Handout
10 Campus:  
3/24
I will be out of town for the Course Technology Conference. Thomas Pizon will sub and go over the Module 3 of Tom Hall's AE text that I handout before Spring Break. Thomas will integrate a Flash into a ToolBook.
11 Campus:
3/31


12 Campus:
4/7 		 
13 Campus:
4/14
14 Campus: 
4/21
 
15 Campus:
4/28 		 
16 5/13   Final Exam and/or Project Demonstration