The Global Warming Debate

Over the past 4 classes, you have seen two films that take very different positions on global warming. The first film was Al Gore's, "The Inconvenient Truth," which argues that global warming is a man made phenomenon and largely is due to the increase in carbon emissions from automobiles and industry. Gore argues that it is important that we act now to cut our emissions and find alternative forms of energy before our use of these fuels result in world altering catastrophies.

The second film is called, "The Great Global Warming Swindle," and takes the view that climate change is not the result of man made activity, but instead is largely the result of changes in the sun and how they impact the earth. The film charges that global warming is essentially "junk science" that is promoted by people whose real agenda is to attack capitalism and development.

As this topic is likely to be part of the essay section of the final exam, take some time to create a page where you revisit the major arguments made on both sides. Following completion of the film, we will take some time to review your notes from the film and then proceed with Unit 3 questions.

Due Date for Unit 3 Web Site Project

The web site project will be due Friday, November 6.

Unit 3 Long Term Project

Today and Tuesday, you were introduced to the Unit 3 Long Term Project. You will be expected to pick a topic out of Unit 3 approved by me and prepare a web-authored, research-based presentation. The presentation must include images, and links to at least eight web-based sources of information and contain 2500 words.

In future days, I will lay out some more specific parameters and a scoring guide to direct you in your work. However, for now you just need to be thinking about some topic possibilities and immerse yourself in the web design tutorials we have done.

What follows is a summary of what we did and what you need to know:

You learned about the basic structure of an html document at the site below:

http://www.ironspider.ca/basic_html/structure.htm

Remember, each web page you create will be made up of html code. The process for making a web page involves two applications -- a simple text editor (Notepad) to DO or write the page and a browser (Explorer) to VIEW the page.

To create a web page, simply complete the following steps:


1.Go to the Ironspider site above.
2.Scroll down and copy the html code in the box at the bottom of the page.
3.Open Notepad and paste the html code you just copied.
4.Add your own text and other html elements in the title tag and the body.
5.Save in Notepad in your My Documents folder, BUT REMEMBER to change the file extension to .html
6.Go to your My Documents folder and open your new html file to view it.
7.To update or make changes, remember to save in Notepad and reload in Explorer.


Key Things We Learned ...

•To make a hypertext link (your page to a website) use the tag structure at the link below...

http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/html.html#hyperlinks

•To make a hypertext link (your page to another one of your pages) use the same structure as to a website, but simply put the name of your html file in between the quotation marks where you would have put the web URL...

• Remember, to do the hypertext link as described above, you need to have two html documents that you have created! You learned how to insert an image onto your web page by using the IMG SRC tag. See the link below for a detailed description of your options in working with an image.
  
  http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/html.html#images

• You also learned you could make the image clickable or a hyperlink by inserting the image tag in the area where you would normally put text for a hyperlink.
  
  

Below you will find some helpful tutorials:

http://www.2createawebsite.com/


http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/

This one is good for reviewing some of the do's and don'ts of website design...

http://www.homesteadconnection.com/WebSiteDesign.html

By Monday, you must select a topic and have it approved by me!!! So give it some thought before you get to class.

Extra Lab time Unit 3 Project

Please note the locations and dates for additional lab time to work on the Unit 3 project:

Period 3

October 20, 21, 22, and 26 - Rm 115

Period 4

October 20, 21, 22 and 26 - Rm 213

Unit 3 Questions Assigned

The following are the questions that were assigned today for Unit 3:


p. 85 1-3,6a and b
p. 86 1
p. 92 1-11
p. 97 1-5
p. 104 1-4, 7, 10, 11
p. 110 1-5
p. 120 1,3,4,6
p. 133 1,3-7, 9,10
p. 149 1-6
p. 158 1,3,5,6b,8

We will be going over these after your lab time.

Unit 3 Reading Day; Dates and Locations for Unit 3 Long Term Project

You were assigned Unit 3 reading today (pages 79-160). We will have one work period for chapter questions on Wednesday.

Also, please note your dates and times for lab work on the Unit 3 Long Term project. Know where you are to be and be there on time and ready:

Period 3

• Tuesday, October 13 in Rm 227
• NOTE YOU ARE BACK IN CLASS TO WRITE YOUR TEST WEDNESAY AND ALSO IN CLASS THURSDAY TO GO OVER THE TEST
• Friday, October 16 in Rm 115
• Monday, October 19 in Rm 213

Period 4

• Tuesday, October 13 in Rm 213
• NOTE YOU ARE BACK IN CLASS TO WRITE YOUR TEST WEDNESAY AND ALSO IN CLASS THURSDAY TO GO OVER THE TEST
• Friday, October 16 in Rm 227
• Monday, October 19 in Rm 213

Review Complete...Unit 2 Test Date Set

We have now completed the review for Unit 2.

The test will be held on Wednesday, October 14, 2009.

Also note that your Chapter questions will be due that same day at the beginning of the period.