Fall 2004 :: Graduate Pedagogy Seminar, NWE Training
Main Points Covered
- Basic NWE
- ASWE Walkthrough
- 1 hour in the MOO
- Basic NWE
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- NWE equipment
- Terminals, room layouts
- Projectors, AV equipment
- Lights, Windows, Lab hours
- resetting defaults
- student passwords
- login; sun cde
- slow load times - centralized server - don't open things
repeatedly, give the computer a chance to think
- Help pages - room schedules, help pages
- forwarding mail
- Mozilla - any questions on checking mail
- remote access - ftp
- ASWE Walkthrough
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- HTML Skeleton
- /home/nwe/name/public_html -- webspace
- don't use preview; save and reload the browser
- click on tags and right-click and go to edit - edit body
- hand-holder mode: can just type - to add tags, click on top menu
and go down
- can click on buttons for paragraph tag
- make a link, and make a new page
- pedagogically -- this writes extremely reliable, elegant code -
importance of elegant code and HTML as grammar - useful teaching
device and let's you interrogate issues of ease (with word perceived
as transparent and easy b/c you have no real control)
- Check on MOO names - and then 10 minute break
- MOO Time
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- What is the MOO - text based virtual env; MUD; space to
interrogate questions of space/place, identity, image and text,
visuality; research and teaching space - we can save your projects for
much later
- Object-oriented - why important
- Log in - remember if you change your name or password, they will
be different - these are MOO and not connected to the NWE or English
after this moment
- basic commands are in three forms - saying, moving, and doing
- Quick help page
- say, emote; walk to, @exits; look, @exam, @describe
- Let's all get to the same place - walk to dobrin; join nomos; join laurie;
- @sethome
- now, look at yourself - look me
- @gender; @gender royal
- @rename me to
- @describe me as "Description"
- say and emote - say something
- adding features - @features, @add-feature spaz
- emote and say - useful to show parts of speech and how they change
in context - all messages on objects in the MOO are this way
- explore:: walk to mooseum; walk to central park
- logging a session; remote connections
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