Evolution of WWW Introduction to Web Publishing

1. Evolution of WWWIntroduction to Web Publishing 23 February 2014

2. Evolution of WWW • Web Publishing • Publishing Your Content • Levels of Elearning • Web Publishing for Elearning • Activity and Discussion • Web Publishing vs Web Design • Discussion Online

3. Evolution of WWW • 1969 - The Internet started during the Cold War where the US military created ARPAnet connects UCLA , UC Santa Barbara , Stanford and University of Utah • 1972 – The term Internet was used • 1975 - Bill Gates , a dropped out of Harvard founded Microsoft with his boyhood friend Paul Allen

4. By October of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee had specified the three fundamental technologies that remain the foundation of today’s Web (and which you may have seen appear on parts of your Web browser): • HTML: HyperText Markup Language. The publishing format for the Web, including the ability to format documents and link to other documents and resources. • URI: Uniform Resource Identifier. A kind of “address” that is unique to each resource on the Web. • HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Allows for the retrieval of linked resources from across the Web

6. Web Publishing • Web publishing, or "online publishing," is the process of publishing content on the Internet. • It includes creating and uploading websites, updating webpages, and posting blogs online. • The published content may include text, images, videos, and other types of media

7. Give u a structure so that you can present your content to the world • NOT AN END TO ITS OWN

8. Publishing Your Content In order to publish content on the web, you need three things: • 1) web development software, The software may be a professional web design program like Dreamweaver or a simple web-based interface like WordPress. • 2) an Internet connection, The Internet connection serves as the medium for uploading the content to the web server. • 3) a web server Large sites may use a dedicated web host, but many smaller sites often reside on shared servers, which host multiple websites. Most blogs are published on public web servers through a free service like Blogger, Wordpress and etc.

9. Web Publishing • Hourly, weekly, monthly updates • To make this happened , you need content management system. • You don’t have to worry about css , html 5, programming etc

10. Advanced levels of learning requires learners to • apply the knowledge, • analyse results, • transfer learning to another situation, and • interact with others

11. LEVELS of ELEARNING

12. LEVELS of ELEARNING • Knowledge databases • E-learning website that offers questions and answers in the form of database. For example, if you want to find out a specific tasks, how to do etc, you can insert the keyword or make some selection out of the pull down menu for the answer. • It is normally a boring, dull, database-like design, not necessarily with any multimedia elements to associate with. • It can be numerical or alphabetical.

13. LEVELS of ELEARNING • Forum, chat-room, notice/bulletin boards, email, live messaging system • A little bit interactive • Caters more to Q&A • Online support

14. LEVELS of ELEARNING • Self-paced learning, CD-ROM based, network based, intra/internet based • Have an access to instructors via notice/bulletin boards, forums and email • Can have an access to reference materials • Asynchronous training

15. LEVELS of ELEARNING • Done in real time • Have a time limit for the class, communicate with the instructors or submission of assignments • Done internet based by using audio video facilities or conferencing (telephone/video) • Synchronous training

16. Blogs, chat sessions, discussions, • email, etc

17. Web Publishing for ElearningBlogs • An easy-to-update web site publishing tool • Used for online journals, diaries, portfolios and web communities. • Includes text, audio, video and “feeds” from other blogs. • Blogs can be characterised by: • a journal style of presentation, including the dates and times of blog entries. Most recent entries are usually listed first • frequent (often daily) updates • an informal, conversational style

18. Web Publishing for ElearningBlogs • the diversity of subject matter, often including brief musings, commentary on internet and other social issues • additional commentary contributed by blog visitors • links to other blogs and websites. • Types of blogs: • Text blog – Blogger, Wordpress • photo blog - Fotolog • Moblogs - Moblog • Vidblogs - Vidblogs • RSS and blogs – podcast, wikis, Bloglines

19. Web Publishing for ElearningChats Session • Tools and services which allow participants to log in to a virtual 'room' and communicate together in real time from their computer Features • participants are all online at the same time - real time (often called synchronous communication) • can create the sense of a virtual classrooms • allows immediate feedback and problem solving • some chat spaces allow for anonymity

20. Web Publishing for ElearningChats Session • Types of chats: • Text chat – most Learning Management System (LMS) • Instant Messaging (IM) – Yahoo! Messenger • Voice and Audio chat – Virtual classroom • Virtual reality chat – using Avatar for interaction • Video and Audio chat - Skype

21. Web Publishing for ElearningDiscussion • Types of discussions: Online forums for teachers and learners to communicate at any time Features • allows learners and teachers to communicate at any time • builds a learning community • creates an archive of course communication • allows learners time to reflect on postings and prepare suitable messages • reduces the time need to respond to individual learners via email

22. Web Publishing for ElearningDiscussion • Types of discussions: • Discussion forums • Instant Messaging (IM) • Voice boards • Wikis, blogs and other posting sites

23. Web Publishing for ElearningEmail • Activities, games and strategies using e-mail as a means of building connections within a group or class • Email - one of the first internet applications to be developed and is still the most popular and widely used for communication and transfer information. • Some email applications (such as Outlook Express and Thunderbird) require a desktop application to be installed and run on the client machine to send and receive email. Setting up email accounts for learners may be handled by a central administrator and turn around may be slow.

24. Web Publishing for ElearningEmail • The use of free web-mail applications such as Yahoo Mail, Gmail and Hotmail is very popular with people on the move or without ongoing access to a computer. • Webmail can be accessed through any web browser on any computer that is online. These can be quickly and easily set up “on the fly” by learners. Many Webmail applications include instant messaging, online calendars and document sharing tools.

25. Web Publishing for ElearningEmail Features: • used extensively around the world • is becoming the communication tool of choice by most businesses and organisations • allows rapid development of online activities • can include attachments for learners to use • allows you, the trainer, to monitor and record interaction

26. Discussion: Web Publishing vs Web Design

27. Activity • Media Innovation Final Year Show case @ E-gallery • Observed and studied web design • 30 mins

28. Discussion:Web Publishing vs Web Design

29. Discussion Online Posting updates on social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter is generally not considered web publishing (?!...) Discuss and provide references.