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Last updated: 12/6/07
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Web.Edu: How Internet Courses Work
Fall 2007

Instructor: David Bowen, home page
d.r.bowen@wayne.edu
Work: 313-577-1498 (has voice mail), FAX 313-577-8585
2311 A/AB (5700 Cass Avenue) / Wayne State University / Detroit, MI  48202
Home: 248-548-8518 (has voice mail)
4704 Elmhurst / Royal Oak, MI  48073
Ford (Fridays and some Thursdays): 313-390-2155 (has voice mail, but I can only pick up messages when I am actually at Ford on Fridays)
Cell: 248-514-9458 (has voice mail)
AIM Screen Name: WSU Web Guy

• Instructor's web site
• Department of Interdisciplinary Studies (including online petition protesting the closing of the Department)
• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Wayne State University

Web site contents:

• Policies, assignments, course meetings
• Online tools
• Information about the class and participants
• Lectures and further information from other sources
• General information

Policies, assignments, course meetings

• Essay Planner - not required, not to be turned in, but many have said it helped them get started
• Course Syllabus
• Questions for Final Exam (the Final will be a random selection of three to five of these questions)
• Class 1, September 8
  • Notes for Class 1 (PowerPoint)
  • Notes for Class 1 (PDF)
• Class 2, September 15 (in UGL Computer Lab A - Room 1140)
  • Notes for Class 2 (PowerPoint)
  • Notes for Class 2 (PDF)
• Class 3, September 22 in 126 Cohn (this is the classroom from now on)
  • Notes for Class 3 (PowerPoint)
  • Notes for Class 3 (PDF)
• Class 4, September 29
  • Notes for Class 4 (PowerPoint)
  • Notes for Class 4 (PDF)
• Class 5, October 6
  • Notes for Class 5 (PowerPoint)
  • Notes for Class 5 (PDF)
• No class meeting for October 13
• Class 6, October 20
  • Notes for Class 6 (PowerPoint)
  • Notes for Class 6 (PDF)
• Class 7, October 27
  • Notes for Class 7 (PowerPoint)
  • Notes for Class 7 (PDF)
• Class 8, November 10
  • Notes for Class 8 (PowerPoint)
  • Notes for Class 8 (PDF)
• Class 9, December 8
  • Notes for Class 9 (PowerPoint)
  • Notes for Class 9 (PDF)

Online tools

• Example Schedule (a study schedule for the five weeks we don't meet face-to-face is due February 3). Turn in your schedule file using Moodle. You can also download the example schedule using Moodle.
• Moodle. We will use Moodle for
  • Keeping contact information up to date
  • Online discussion, in the early part of the class (switches to BlackBoard on October 22)
  • File Test
  • Turning in work online
  • Online Course Progress Reports
  • Online grade reports
• Direct link to Web.Edu on Moodle
• WSU BlackBoard (discussion forum from October 22 through November 19)
• Web Hub: a file for your computer desktop. See the note about saving this to your computer desktop at the bottom of this page.
• Web Server Monitor - which WSU web servers are working or not working
• WSU Monitor for Webmail, BlackBoard, etc.

Lectures and further information from other sources

• Taking an online course
• Managing Your Computer
• Three Technical Issues

General ISP and WSU information

• Link to WSU Web Email
• WSU Computer Help Desk: (313) 577-4778, 8 AM - 8 PM, Mon - Fri

Web Hub note for Windows users: To save the Web Hub to your computer desktop, where it will do you the most good:

1. Click on the Web Hub link so that the Web Hub page is displayed on your computer screen.
2. Click on the "File" menu item, then "Save As..."
3. In the Save As dialog box shown below, set the "Save in:" box to "Desktop" as shown by (see steps below picture)
   
   1. Click on the down-pointing arrowhead at the right of the "Save in:" box
   2. "Desktop" is at the top of the list; if there are more choices you may have to scroll up
4. With "Desktop" showing in the "Save in:" line, click "Save."