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Week 4: Final Announcements-Please read all these notes!

Evaluation forms:
1. Program feedback-complete this when your portfolio is complete and ready to be assessed.
2. PD credit-anonymous and quick to complete.

This will be our last week of class. Be sure to look at the information under week 4 of Moving On. We do have a final broadcast on Tuesday, the 30th where we'll be wrapping up everything. We've been having problems with some of our broadcast sites and I'm hoping that the problems will be resolved so that all of you can be a part of this last broadcast.

Thank you for your patience with our server problems and for making the accommodations that we've asked you to make. Diana and I have completed module 2 assessments of your class webpages and portfolios and you should have received a copy of the assessments from your site coaches by now. Diana is currently working on assessing your group staff development projects. Be sure to look at the suggestions on these checklists to make sure that your portfolio meets the requirements for module 2.

This Saturday (May 4th) is the due date for T3 assignments. The last date that we can accept work is May 16th. If you have any questions as to what needs to be in your final portfolio, refer to the "final portfolio sample".

IMPORTANT: When you are completely finished with your portfolio, you will need to submit the evaluation forms for this course. Once we've received your evaluation, we'll know that your portfolio is ready to be assessed. The link to the evaluations will be available from this page on Saturday, May 4th. There are two forms. One is for the PD credit and the other is for program improvements and feedback.

1. Program feedback (we will begin assessing your portfolio once we receive this evaluation)

2. PD credit-this is anonymous and should be completed once you've finished all course assignments.

For those who have had conflicts with downloading the HyperStudio plug-in, here are step by step directions for uploading your stack. If you upload and are not able to view your stack, please let either me or your site coach know and we'll take a look and give you feedback.

So, here are the steps for preparing, uploading, and viewing your stack. If you follow these steps, your stack will be ready to upload. Be sure to check the size of your stack before uploading. You want to try to keep it in the 5-8 MB range at the highest. Smaller file sizes would be better, but adding multimedia to these stacks tends to make them large. Don't try to upload a 5-8 MB stack from home if you are on a modem. It will take forever and you will probably be disconnected part way through your upload.

Preparing your stack:

1. Create a folder in your T3website folder for your work. (Name it something short and simple like: hs
2. Put your stack in this folder along with any external files (movies, sounds, graphics) that you plan to use. Work from this folder.
3. Save your stack with a simple name like: yourslastname.stk (no spaces, no capital letters, keep it to letters rather than numbers or symbols)
4. Make a copy of your folder and put it somewhere else for a backup.
5. When you're totally finished with your stack, you can work on making it smaller by doing two things (this is optional):
   1. Go to Objects in the top menu bar and choose about this stack. You can change the size and number of colors used if you want to. Changing the size might result in you having to change the size of text that you use on your cards, so you might not want to do this. Changing the number of colors from thousands to 256 will be ok.
   2. Go to Edit > Preferences and choose the option that lets you compress the background to make the file smaller. Only do this once when you're absolutely finished with the stack.
6. Go to Extras and choose Export as web page. HyperStudio will create a webpage for you that points to your stack. This will show a window asking you to name the page. Name it the same as your stack except with .html at the end instead of .stk. The default will probably be nameofyourstack.stk.html. You can delete the .stk part of this name and it will work just fine. Save this page in your folder with your stack.
7. (Optional) If you want to make adjustments to this webpage, you can open up Dreamweaver and then open this page that HyperStudio created for you and you can add text, add links, change the background color etc.

Uploading your stack:

1. When everything is the way you want it, and when the server is up and running, upload this whole folder to your t3website.
2. Be sure that you have uploaded everthing in your folder.

Viewing your site:

1. You will need to be using a browser that has the HyperStudio 4 plug-in installed in order to see your site from the web. If you don't have access to this, let either Debi or your site coach know that you've uploaded and would like us to check to see if everything is ok.
2. HyperStudio has a cache that holds, in its memory, the stacks that you browse on the web. If you upload your stack and check it out and then make changes on it and upload it again, you might not see the changes that you uploaded because of this cache. Often you need to empty the cache in order to see your changes. On the Mac, the HyperStudio cache is in the System Folder inside the Preferences folder in a folder called HyperStudio Cache. Open this folder and delete the file. Then you can check the file. If you're a Windows user and are not sure where to find the Cache, please let me know and I'll find out for you where this is located.

Below you'll find previously mentioned links to resources to help you with your HyperStudio stacks.

• Get the HyperStudio 4 plug-in and directions for installing

• To the Technology Scenario Sample

• Alternate sample (quicker download)

For your Portfolios: We've posted tips for uploading HyperStudio, KidPix, PowerPoint, and QuickTime movies to your web pages. You can find these tips under Assessment > Learning Results Portfolios >Tips. Once you get to the tips page, scroll down to the bottom to see the tutorials.

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