Resoruces useful at UCF

UCF Writing Center Resources:

Online Writing Resources- In the online writing resources page at UCF, they offer various tools to help students become more advanced in their writing skills. Such tools may include handouts, style guides and other resources.

Tutor Trac Online Scheduler- In the Tutor Trac Online Scheduler, students can schedule a time most convenient to them to meet with a peer writing tutor.

SARC Online- SARC stands for Student Academic Resource Center. On SARC Online, students get tools and resources to assist with any sort of academic need.

UCF Apps- UCF Apps allows students to access any software needed for coursework from any of the student's device from anywhere at any time.

Readings useful in Eme 6507

During Chapter 1, it introduces the framework for the 21st century learning in the classroom. This chapter also contains the idea of differentiating between technology and media as well as the teacher use of technology and media and the student use of technology and media. It also discusses the concept of copyright laws and the importance of copyright laws in technology education.

Smaldino, S. E., Lowther, D. L., & Russell, J. D. (2012). Chapter 1: Exploring 21st Century Learning. Instructional Technology and Media for Learning(10th edition). New York: Prentice Hall.

During Chapter 2, we learend about the charecteristics of 21st century learners and we learned about how they learn best that will lead to their success and achievement in the classroom. We also learned about the learning theories and principle of effective instruction. Lastly, it was discussed in this chpater about the advantages and disadavantages of integrating text into learning.

Smaldino, S. E., Lowther, D. L., & Russell, J. D. (2012). Chapter 2: Understanding 21st Century Learners. Instructional Technology and Media for Learning(10th edition). New York: Prentice Hall.

During Chapter 6, we learned about cyberlearning and web 2.0 tolls that can be used in the classroom to facilitate learning to the max. It was also discussed about social networking issues and social ehtical issues with students.

Smaldino, S. E., Lowther, D. L., & Russell, J. D. (2012). Chapter 6: Connecting Learners using Web 2.0 tools. Instructional Technology and Media for Learning(10th edition). New York: Prentice Hall.

During Chapter 10, we learned about the important concepts of viewing and producing video. We also learned about how student learning is enhanced by the use of videos and the impact it has on the classroom environment.

Smaldino, S. E., Lowther, D. L., & Russell, J. D. (2012). Chapter 10: Enhancing Learning with Video. Instructional Technology and Media for Learning(10th edition). New York: Prentice Hall.

During Chapter 1 of The Non-Designers Web Book, we learned about the interenet, the modem, as well as essential parts on the world wide web such as the domain name, the URL, plug in, browser, link, search engine and more.

Williams, R. & Tollett, J. (2006). Chapter 1: What is the web?. The Non-Designers Web Book (3rd edition). Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press. 

During Chapter 4 of The Non-Designers Web Book, we learned about the legal file name, naming and saving web pages, what the title of your web page should be and the restrictions a title might hold. We also learned about establishing a website and publisihng it utilizing the host name and provier of the web page.

Williams, R. & Tollett, J. (2006). Chapter 4: 4 things to know before you begin your site. The Non-Designers Web Book (3rd edition). Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press. 

During Chapter 6 of The Non-Designers Web Book, we learned about effectively aligning our websites to look professional. Also, we learned about how to create effective elements in your web page and to coninue the layout to the other pages on the web page.

Williams, R. & Tollett, J. (2006). Chapter 6: Basic Design principles for non-designers. The Non-Designers Web Book (3rd edition). Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press. 

During Chapter 8 of The Non-Designers Web Book, this chapter showed a great design checklist in the back of the chapter that listed essnetial items to ensure a great website including text being big enough to read and information being clear, navigation buttons working properly, the link colors coordinating on each page, graphics containing an alt label, and lastly the general design being organized.

Williams, R. & Tollett, J. (2006). Chapter 8: How to recognize good and bad design. The Non-Designers Web Book (3rd edition). Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press. 

During Chapter 9 of The Non-Designers Web Book, we learned about color on the web and utilizing effective yet appropriate colors for the font and background and more. We also learned about indexed color which is essentially a pallete of 256 colors. We also learned about monitor and printer resolition, bit depth, pixels, and browser safe colors and web safe colors.

Williams, R. & Tollett, J. (2006). Chapter 9: Color on the web . The Non-Designers Web Book (3rd edition). Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press. 

During Chapter 10 of The Non-Designers Web Book, we learned about the difference between a jpeg and gif. The advantages of a jpeg and gif file. Adding alt label, and the different file formats. Lastly, in this chapter, we learned about thumbnails.

Williams, R. & Tollett, J. (2006). Chapter 10: Graphic definitions you must know. The Non-Designers Web Book (3rd edition). Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press.