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What We Did in Last Lesson

How are you doing on your homepage?  I am sure everyone of you are working hard on it. When you create your home page I would like you to build your page around a theme. For example, a student made a page about her newborn baby while another student did a page about his fraternity.  Take a look at these homepages done by students from previous terms.

You are going to learn to embed an audio file in your homepage this week. There are lots of free audio files on the Internet that you can download or you can record your own audio.  Be creative and make a page that you would like to keep and share with your family and friends. By the way, don't forget to provide a link in your homepage to go to your résumé.  Also, go back to your résumé and add a hyperlink to go to your homepage.

You should have most of your home page done already and you are going to make some final changes and get it ready to upload to the web host of your choice.  Your page should have a theme and contain graphics (or animation) and audio. Create your own homepage from scratch and DO NOT use the default homepage provided by the web host (i.e. Angelfire, AOL, etc.)  Make sure you have hyperlinks to link your homepage and résumé to each other.

After you finish your personal homepage, we are going to get some feedback on your personal homepage from your classmates.  Make sure you upload your page to your Web page host by the end of Wednesday so your classmate can start the review process.

Please go to Homepages to find out the homepage you are assigned to evaluate and download the Web page evaluation sheet. Fill out the comment on each item and send it to the author of the page and your instructor as an attachment.

Again, your homepage will be graded based on the following criteria and you can find more information on Scoring Rubric for Student Homepage Projects.

  • Links - All relative, backward & forward links follow a uniform format.
  • Text Usage - Control all text size, fonts, paragraphs, spacing and positions.
  • Graphics and Pictures - Use multiple graphics or pictures per document that relates to the text.
  • Grammar - No mistakes in spelling or punctuation.
  • Color and Background - 
    • Control color of text and/or background.
    • No difficulty reading text due to color contrast.
  • Lists and Tables - Proper construction of lists and tables.

Here is the Web page evaluation sheet you and I are going to use to evaluate the Web pages next week.  As always, let me know if you have any questions or problem with your Web page.

Only one more week left before the end of the term.  If you have not used chat this term, this is the last opportunity for you to find out what we are doing in the chat room. 

Have fun with this week's activities!

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What You Will Learn in This Lesson

  • Build-in browser support for multimedia

  • Helper apps for Netscape Communicator

  • Windows filename associations

  • Plug-ins and add-ins

  • Java

  • ActiveX

  • Dynamic HTML

  • Server-side tools

  • Client-side trends

  • Preparing to make your first waveform audio recording

  • Making a waveform audio recording

  • Editing waveform audio recordings

  • Adjusting the quality of waveform audio recordings

  • Linking audio to your Web page

  • Embedding audio on a Web page

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Lesson Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • How Web Browsers Do Multimedia

  • Understand how Web browsers use helper apps, plug-ins, and add-ins to do multimedia.

  • Explain the difference between a helper app, plug-in, and add-in.

  • Configure your Web browser to use helper apps.

  • Download and install multimedia plug-ins and add-ins.

  • Find hot multimedia Web sites.

  • Define Java, understand the concept of an applet, and know where to find tools for creating more dynamic Web pages.

  • Define what is meant by the common gateway interface, and understand the server side of Web page development.

  • Make a client-side image map.

  • Waveform Audio Recording

  • Make a waveform audio recording.

  • Adjust the quality of a waveform audio recording.

  • Explain the difference between sampling rate and bits per sample.

  • Reduce bandwidth requirements by converting a waveform audio recording into an MP3 file.

  • Link a waveform audio recording to your Web page.

  • Embed audio on a Web page.

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Activities for This Lesson

  • Reading Assignment - Read Chapters 23 and 24 in your Internet Literacy textbook.

  • Class Participation - Check List for class participation.

  • Assignment 17 - Review One of Your Classmate's Homepage.  Value equals 4 points toward your grade in the course.

Review one of your classmate's homepage assigned to you.  Use WebCT to email him/her suggestions as to what he/she should do to improve his/her page. Also email a copy of  your suggestions to your instructor in WebCT.

  • Chat - We will meet in the chat room on Friday from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. this week.   This is a part of class participation and you can just come in and observe if you don't have anything to say. 

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Conclusion

  At the end of this lesson, you have learned:

       How Web Browsers Do Multimedia

       Waveform Audio Recording

  Assignments:

  • Read Chapters 23 & 24.

  • Assignment 17 - Review One of Your Classmate's Homepage

  • Chat with your class (Friday from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.)

  What we will do next week: 

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Last updated: 06/30/03