Triton / Patterns Summer Symposium

Day 2

Day One

July 20 • 22 • 27, 1998

Why use visual organizers? How can we help students acquire new information and retain it? What kinds of information patterns are there? How do I make a web page?

Principles
The What's and Why's
Procedures
The How-To's
Practice
Learning by Doing

Project Overview
Principles of Learning
Symposium Overview



Visual Organizers

Page 1 -

Inspiration Tool Bar


Brainstorming

Page 3 -

Adding Ideas with Rapid Fire

Page 4 -

Adding Symbols

Page 6 -

Outline and Diagram Views

Page 7 -

Clumping Items

Page 9 -

Linking Topics

Labeling links

Brainstorming exercise

Clustering

Page 10 -

Changing Symbols

Page 12 -

Child Pages and Families

Use an Inspiration template to complete a cluster about yourself

Scaffolding Information Acquisition

Page 15 -

Adding Notes to Symbols

Kon-Tiki Exercise

LUNCH

Information Patterns

Page 17 -

Taxonomy of Information Patterns

Pattern Application Exercise

Creating a Personal Home Page

Page 18 -

Grabbing Web Pages

Download a Personal Home Page Template

Basic Web Editing

Page 21 -

The Home Page Tool Bar

Page 23 -

Changing the Appearance of Text

Page 25 -

Previewing Your Pages in Netscape

Page 81 -

Creating Bulleted and Numbered Lists

Page 29 -

Changing the Background

Page 32 -

Changing the Title of a Page

Work on personal home page

File Management

Page 35 -

Naming Your Files for the Web

Page 36 -

Organizing Your Files

File Naming Practice

Set up folders for projects

Closing Activities


Session Evaluation Form for Elementary Day 1


Triton / Patterns Summer Symposium

Day 2