INSYS 400 - Class #10 Resources

1. Classwork - Put finishing touches on your Web site, Multimedia Presentation, and/or Instructional Unit.
   
   
2. Take the INSYS 400 Final Exam at funbrain.com.
   
   
   1. Visit www.funbrain.com
   2. Click the hyperlink for "Quiz Lab" in the upper-right corner.
   3. Under student login, type "insys400word" as the Secret Word and type your name as "Your Name".
   4. After you've finished the 10-question multiple-choice exam, you will see your results. The results will also be emailed to the instructor.
   5. You can create your own quizzes for free at funbrain.com! It's easy and convenient for you to make quizzes and for your students to take them. An online gradebook is even kept for your convenience. For only $29.95/year, you can set up multiple teacher accounts and share quizzes too! Brian uses 12teach.com to create similar online free quizzes.
      
      
3. (if time) Discussion - Using school portals, using email efficiently, & My Yahoo
   
   
• School portals such as blackboard.com, nschool.com, schoolcenter.com, myschoolonline.com, and bigchalk.com, etc.
  
  
• Web-based email vs. conventional POP email
  • How to sign up for free Web-based email such as Yahoo Mail
  • Automatic forwarding, leaving mail on the server, etc.
    
    
• Checking your POP email with any email program at home, at work, on vacation, etc.
  • use the Mail2Web.com web site
  • memorize your incoming mail server name.
    • To read your Wyomissing email at home, you simply have to type mail.wyoarea.k12.pa.us as the incoming mail server name and the use the first part of your school email (e.g. cminich) as your username.
    • To read your home email at school, type the incoming mail server name for your ISP such as mail.att.com and use the first part of your personal email address. This should work for just about everyone except for AOL users.
      
      
• Setting up a personal My Yahoo page to conveniently track stock prices, news, t.v. guide listing, addresses, calendar and more!
  
  
4. (if time) Demonstration - Multimedia on the Web
   
   
• RealPlayer - At www.real.com you can see education, recreational, and other ways to listen to streaming audio or you can listen to Mr. Minich.
• QuickTime - You can see panoramas such as Highland Middle School , Mr. Cellucci's office, and the Great Pyramids.
• Shockwave - Play games and more at Shockwave.com.
• You may have to download and install certain free plug-ins before viewing these multimedia rich Web pages on your computer though.
  
  
5. Demonstration - A tour of the highlights of Mr. Minich's Practical Uses of the Internet workshop.