Amazing 5th grade teacher: www.mpsomaha.org/willow/p5
Handhelds in his classroom:
http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/p5/links/handhelds.html
Has wonderful lab setup for simulated space shuttle missions, for use by K-12
students
Has wireless throughout the building, wireless is outside the firewall so this
protects from security breaches
1 server for all web stuff running webstar
1 server for databases
Tape backup running retrospect running to
-ECRIX tape drive
-changes tapes once per week
Right now has a students folder with 623 students, each one has a folder
- each as an ID number
- Filemanager runs thru webstar
Anything that has a link to it from Filemaker won't let you open in a new window
- Paul is not sure why, this is an added bonusWith OS X running Apache, should
be able to get an upload plugin
- webstar as a built in cgi plugin that Paul is using
When students login, directed to slogin folder
- different folder for each course
- have student create a login number and a student number
Get from ACS student names and eraider names
- import into the students database
Use Java to control the submit button
- added a script Paul found on the internet, when you login
Sign-in button won't show up unless Java is enabled
- puts the submit button inside a javascript, so button is only visible with
javascript
<script language=Javascript><!--
document.writeln('<INPUT TYPE=submit VALUE="Sign In" NAME="-Find"
onclick="checkForm() ">');
// -->
Use javascript on a button to go back 3 pages in the browser history
- <input type=button name=button value=" No " onclick="history.go(-3)">
- change number 3 to however many pages you want to go back
Uploading:
- when upload, sometimes will upload entire path as well as the file
When students login, they get to frame a
- creates a series of hidden fields
- each sidebar link is a separate form that passes filemaker userid and password
to the subsequent
- posting is to filemaker and a specified format file
FORM ACTION="../standards/FMPro" METHOD=POST target=b>
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="-DB" VALUE="students.fp5">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="-Lay" VALUE="main">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="-format" VALUE="index.htm">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="-error" VALUE="error.htm">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="-Max" VALUE="1">
<INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME="IDnum" VALUE="3906">
<INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME="passnum" VALUE="5199">
<INPUT TYPE=image SRC="images/myportfolio.gif" NAME="-find"
WIDTH=135 HEIGHT=18 BORDER=0 ALIGN=left>
</FORM>
Now the key field is login
- will be changed to idnumber
- all the relationships will be setup on the id instead of the login
has separate database
Do a 'relookup' to bring all the relational data into the database after importing
all the userids
Just create the relationship in the child database (not in the parent - students
database)
login - currently does not change
id - this is a key for every student
password - just used to get into the database
WHEN I SET MINE UP, USE ID NOT LOGIN AS PRIMARY RELATIONSHIP KEY
Do not use any container fields
When you sit down with the faculty member, look at a copy of their paper portfolio
- look at kinds of tasks and assignments
- identify parts of the assignments that could good web based assignmetns
- rubric based and evaluated
When create format files:
- each one will have id number passed
Handle ALL LINKS thru forms and avoid revealing long URL info
For Upload problem
- either need an appleshare IP upload plugin
- or one for OS X server
May be able to use the one on Flask
Upload link
- goes to webstar or whatever is server is hosting virtual artifacts
- URL for the post includes student id so the file goes to the right directory
With quickkeys you can make macros to make multple student folders
Create a .upload file
- this calls the plugin
.message
- is another plugin, this lists everything in the directory
<FORM ACTION="" METHOD=POST>
<P><A HREF="http://pt3.unomaha.edu/students/jsample/images/"><B>YES,
I am ready to send my movie(s)</B></A>
</FORM>
Recommended solution:
- use upload plugin on Windows NT and keep student folders on NT server (electronic
artifacts)
- keep all text data within Filemaker running on Flask
Main assignment for Jesse: NT upload plugin
Starting to create matrix with INTASK and ISTE standars
Webstar is
http://www.webstar.com/
Web Portfolios is a NCATE plan
From a security standpoint, don't want students to know the full URL to their
electronic artifacts folder
To show electronic artfacts on a format page, use an absolute URL with two filemaker
variables, one for student id and one for file name
Filemaker calculation is used to strip absolute file path info
www.media-x.com/products/mval
- evaluation database
Westside HIgh School Tech coordinator has used Avantgo to sync with tech support
Instructor approval
Separate login for faculty than students
- separate database for authentication
sidebar of courses is customized based on the faculty NCATE accredition plan
for them is now this portfolio plan
- track individual student performance, performance as a whole, etc.
Cypto toolbox is tool for encoding the password
FMP speedometer gives stats on server
Future rissues:
NEED TO DEVELOP a delete button
- also need to find a way to limit the size of the folder
Need to develop an export function to a single file for CD burning
- could export it to PDF
WebEX is a demonstration software that lets you do live web demos over the internet