My Position:

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My Position
I am an Intern in the Psychology Industrial
Internship Program. I am working in Connie
Varnhagens Instructional Technologies Lab. The
lab is meant to be a resource tool for the
department as it offers both supplies and
technical expertise for the improvement of
instructional quality.
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The Instructional Technologies Assistants
- We are the resource centre for
instructional technology materials. - We provide
staff with a trained resource person to help with
any instructional technology needs. - We offer
support in developing and evaluating instructional
technology.
We can personally collaborate with any staff
member interested in the technological resources
mentioned in this presentation.


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Some lab creations
Examples
Homesite - editing pages for staff
Fireworks - mouse related events
Flash - animated graphics
- Brain Module
Authorware - Critical Thinking Module
- Brain Quiz
- experiments
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Course Web Pages
- the generic departmental web page
- universal psychology links resource
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Supplies available in the lab

• Software
• Homesite
• - HTML editing
• - Web-site creation/editing

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Supplies available in the lab
Software

• Fireworks
• - Graphics, roll-overs
• - Image Editing

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Supplies available in the lab
Software

• Flash
• - Animated graphics, scenes
• and user interfaces

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Supplies available in the lab
Software

• Authorware
• - Interactive programs
• - Experimental data collection
• from users

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Supplies available in the lab
Hardware

• 2 multimedia PCs
• Zip drive, and CD-burner
• Laser Jet Printer

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Psychology Instructional Computer Lab
The psychology instructional computer lab is
located in P-116 and is available for use by
staff and students in the department of
psychology. Lab computers consist of 15 -
PIII- 450 Pentium type computers with 128 MB of
memory, 17 inch color monitors, and 10 G disk
drives running the Windows NT operating systems.
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Psychology Instructional Computer Lab
Each computer is multimedia capable and includes
a 100 MB Zip drive, a CD-ROM drive with audio
speakers, and one printer is provided for the
facility. All computers are networked to a
local file server and to the campus network.
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Psychology Instructional Computer Lab
Current Software Holdings for the Lab - virus
protection and network utilities - network
browsers (Netscape and Internet Explorer) - the
Microsoft Office Suite (Access, Excel,
PowerPoint, Publisher and Word)
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Psychology Instructional Computer Lab
- SAS version 7 and SPSS version 10 (for
statistical analysis) - Specialized software or
data set installation for instructional needs may
be requested through Harold Tischer in the
psychology shop.
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Psychology Instructional Computer Lab
Access to computers is by ID and password where
the ID is the room number containing the computer
and the password for each machine is
hello. Special accounts may be setup by
request to Harold Tischer.
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Psychology Instructional Computer Lab
The lab is open for use from 800 am to 500 pm
Monday through Friday and by combination lock
access at all other times. Users who wish to
gain access to the Lab after open hours may
contact Bev Bochon in P - 263 to receive the
combination.
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Break Time!
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EVALUATION what do you use?
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Break Time!
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Steps to developing a course web-page
1. Request Templates 2. Edit Templates in
Netscape Composer 3. FTP Contents of Folder to
Account 4. Let Fred Boyko Know the Address
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Requesting the course page templates
1. Get a hold of me (Rachel Hirsch). - phone
492 - 0035 - e-mail rhirsch_at_ualberta.ca -
drop in BS P-441 2. Request how you would like
to receive the templates. - disk - file
transfer/FTP 3. It is suggested that the
templates folder be placed on your desktop
(windows - desktop).
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Edit main course page
Open the templates folder in Netscape Composer.
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Edit main course page
Once the main course page template is open there
are several adjustments that can be made so that
it is personalised. The following suggestions
are the most generic ways in which the page can
be personalised, other methods may work better
for the individual. Note other editors can
also be used
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Edit main course page
Lets see how exactly these changes can be made
- main course page
Clicking the publish icon at any time will allow
you to ensure that your page looks how you want
it to.
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Edit main course page
Once all changes have been made to the main
course page you will want to save your work.
Just as with any other program look under File
for Save As and choose your new page name.
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Edit syllabus page
The procedure for editing the syllabus is the
same as it was for the main course page
1. Open in Netscape Composer from the
Templates folder. 2. Edit/personalise the
page. 3. Save the page with a personalised name.
Lets see what changes can be made
- syllabus
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Edit the schedule page
The procedure for editing the schedule page is
the same as it was for the main course page
1. Open in Netscape Composer from the
Templates folder. 2. Edit/personalise the
page. 3. Save the page with a personalised name.
Lets see what changes can be made
- schedule
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Edit the announcements page
The procedure for editing the announcements page
is the same as it was for the main course page
1. Open in Netscape Composer from the
Templates folder. 2. Edit/personalise the
page. 3. Save the page with a personalised name.
Lets see what changes can be made
- announcements
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FTP templates folder to your account
You should have the following icon on your
desktop.
The FTP account allows you to publish pages on
the Internet.

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FTP templates folder to your account
Click on the FTP icon to open it up.
To log in - profile name is ice.psych.ualberta.
ca - host name/address ice.psych.ualberta.ca -
user ID personal ID (ask Fred) -
Password personal password (ask Fred)
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FTP templates folder to your account
When you are logged on you will have your account
information on the right and the contents of your
computer on the left.
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FTP templates folder to your account
Find your templates folder on desktop in the left
window (local system).
Click the green arrow to get to the first
screen. - windows - desktop - templates
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FTP templates folder to your account
Find the folder in your account where you want to
publish your course page. Often you will want to
use a public_html folder. You might want to
create this folder if you do not already have it.
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FTP templates folder to your account
Now all you have to do is transfer the updated
folder from your desktop to your account.
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E-mail Fred Boyko
Once you have completed all the previous steps
all you need to do is let Fred Boyko know your
course page address so that it can be added to
the Psychology Department page. E-mail Fred at
fred.boyko_at_ualberta.ca using your course page
address as the subject line.
You can now create the basic course page.
Congratulations!
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Posting Lecture Notes
Lecture notes can be easily posted on the
schedule page by saving each notes section in
Microsoft Word as an HTML document. The icons
for lecture notes on the schedule_temp.html page
are each labelled using the following format
notes(x).html. Thus, you will want to likewise
label your notes in Word according to the order
you would like it posted. Once you save the
notes in HTML format just FTP them to your
templates folder in your account. Done!
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Posting Students Marks
To post student marks all you have to do is send
an e-mail to grades_at_psych.ualberta.ca 1. The
subject will be your course ID (ex. p223A1). 2.
The body of the e-mail is exactly what you want
the students to see posted. You will likely have
to cut and paste the list of marks from your
computer to the body of the e-mail message. DO
NOT use attachments!
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QUESTIONS?
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EVALUATION tell me what did you think?