Supported by the Faculty Development Program with the generous support of the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Southern Connecticut State University, SummerTech is a week-long workshop that brings faculty together from around the university to explore technology in the service of education.
SummerTech takes place the first full week in August. During 2003 the workshop will begin on Monday, August 4 and finish on Friday, August 8.
The sessions of SummerTech make use of various facilities on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University. Not only does the workshop focus on developing technology for educational purposes, but it also showcases some of the facilities on our campus, as well as the support that is in place on campus. During SummerTech 2003 we will be using the computer classroom in Morill 13 for development and the auditorium in EN 120A for major presentations. In addition, we will explore the facilities in Buley Library and in a typical "Smart classroom."
SummerTech is conducted by faculty and staff of Southern Connecticut State University. Funded by the Faculty Development Program, it is for faculty at Southern Connecticut State University who wish to explore technology for use in their courses. Participants are selected in an application process by a committee composed of the director of the program as well as former participants and staff. Participants receive a stipend of $500 for the week.
To support the development of materials for the World Wide Web, participants will learn about Web page and site design, about accessibility issues in constructing web sites, about issues involving intellectual property rights, and about importing texts and images into a web page. The workshop provides an introduction to HTML, the language of the Web and to Dreamweaver MX, a web site creation and management tool. We discuss content, layout, and hyperlinks, and touch on production of graphics and their incorporation into web pages. The workshop moves participants through various stages of website creation, including mounting a site on the World Wide Web.
By the end of the week, participants will create an individual web sit with at least 4 pages mounted on Southern's web server and accessible to the public. The pages will contain graphics and hyperlinks which connect both to documents and areas within the website as well as to external documents.
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July 16, 2004
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