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OU Educate: Implementation of a New WYSIWIG Tool for Maintenance of Personal Web Pages. May 25, 2005. Mary Schoeler David McQuin Kathi Dutton Don Michaels. OU Educate - Perspective. History Redesign of Campus Web Site Companion product Previously needed unix commands and FTP
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OU Educate: Implementation of a New WYSIWIG Tool for Maintenance of Personal Web Pages May 25, 2005 Mary Schoeler David McQuin Kathi Dutton Don Michaels
OU Educate - Perspective History Redesign of Campus Web Site Companion product Previously needed unix commands and FTP Hard to maintain department and personal web pages
OU Educate • WYSIWIG editing tool for web pages • similar to FrontPage or DreamWeaver • Accounts automatically created for faculty and students
OU Educate • Browser based • available on any computer • available at any time • use IE 5.5 or higher in Windows • other browsers and platforms work
OU Educate • Compatible with other editors • Saves files directly to your public-html directory no ftp no delay
Saving Backups Web Page Editor Inserting Text Inserting Links Inserting Images Spell Checking Editing Tables Pasting from MS Word Uploading Files, not drag and drop Editing in full HTML mode OU Educate Skills and Tasks
OU Educate Easy to use
Faculty workshops Training CD Web based training CS101
CSC 101 – Tools for Computing • General Education course • Computer Literacy • 6 – 100 student sessions per semester • Students also enroll in 1-hr lab/week • 1,350 students annually
Lab#2Pico, HTML, IE • In this lab students learned how to create a simple web-page. • Telnet into Rocky • Using Unix commands • Create public-html directory & set privileges • Copy html template into their account & set privileges • Use Pico to edit template • Open IE to view newly created page
Problems • Time consuming • Students confused & over-whelmed • Students find it difficult to maintain a web-presence in subsequent semesters
Support • Handouts • Web-based Tutorials • Training Workshops