Website Construction for Educators
Instructor: Gregg Hilker, Onalaska Middle School
hilgr@mail.onalaska.k12.wi.us
 
Links
  • History of the WWW
  • Web Glossary
  • Boolean Commands
  • Search Engines
  • Search Engine Reviews
  • Yale - Chicago Style Guide applied to digital media
  • Webquest.org
  • WebQuest about Creating WebQuests
  • Building Blocks of a Web Quest (SDSU)
  • WebQuest Template
  • Earth Day ABCs
  • Gregg Hilker's Classroom Home page
  • Dust Bowl Webquest
  • Endangered Species Project
  • Brochure Project
  • Electoral College Web Quest
  • Netscape Communicator Composer Help Pages
  • Netscape Home page
  • Download Netscape Communicator here
  • Free Web Hosts for Education
  • Download Fetch (ftp software for Mac)
  • Download WS-FTP (ftp software for Windows)
  • Announcing your web site FAQs
  • WI DPI Standards
  • WI DPI 
  • Washburn Academy 

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    Agenda
    Day 1 
    Suggested Links: Funbrain.com , WebQuest about Creating WebQuests
    A.M. Activity  - Keynote Speaker
    Objective:  To introduce the week's planned activities; to introduce the participants in the course; to review week's agenda and objectives; to determine teacher needs from this week's workshop; to preview the course web site and its resources.
    P.M. Objective: To discuss the development of the Internet and the WWW; to discover and examine educational uses and resources made available to teachers by the WWW; to learn how search engines work and advanced search engine strategies including Boolean commands. (More about Boole and Boolean commands)
    Activity: Search Engine analysis using Boolean Commands; individuals' searches lead to sharing of web sites.  Boolean Commands scavenger hunt. Webquests, 

    Homework:  Read the article "Web Style Guide" in your binder and generate a list of your top ten educational website qualities. Our Qualities for Educational Websites

    Day 2 
    A.M.  Objective:  To review and discuss Internet and HTML lexicon; to generate criteria for quality educational web sites; to peruse and evaluate existing educational web sites based on the criteria developed by the class.
    Activity:  Use Yale - Chicago Style Guide information to generate criteria for quality educational web sites; visit web sites selected and evaluate them based on our criteria; share evaluations and discuss the attributes both negative and positive of the sites visited.
    P.M. Objective: To develop a goal and flow chart/idea map for educational web site; to begin using Netscape Communicator to create web sites.
    Activity: Visit web sites similar to that which the participants wish to create to evaluate and emulate desired attributes; practice using Netscape Composer by creating sample exploratory web site.

    School Related Backgrounds , Animated gifs, Discovery School Clip Art

    Past Washburn Participants' web sites:  Arcadia MS Art, Irving Pertzsch LMC, Eagle Bluff LMC, BRF HS Art, Aquinas MS 7th Gr. Sci.,  Aquinas MS School Store, DeSoto/Stoddard Elementary Music

    Day 3
    A.M. and P.M. Objective: To learn about various local industries and their uses of technology.
    Activities: Industry tours. Mini Workshop/Open House

    Day 4 
    A.M. Objective: To review web site construction from Day 2; to preview links to web page design resources;  to begin writing web pages.
    Activity: Use Netscape Communicator Composer software to start developing individual web  pages with links and graphics.
    P.M. Objective: To write web pages and construct web sites.
    Activity: Use Netscape Communicator Composer software to start developing individual web  pages with links and graphics.

    Day 5 (Continued from Day 4)
    A.M. Objective: To write web pages and construct web sites.
    Activity: Use Netscape Communicator Composer software to develop individual web  pages with links and graphics.
    P.M. Objective: To refine web site design and share projects with the course participants; to discuss uploading web sites to servers; to discuss announcing web pages to search engines.
    Activity: Share web sites using projector; visit Yahoo and other search engines to examine procedures for announcing web pages once they are uploaded to servers; to examine web server space available to teachers for free.

    Free Web Hosts:  FreeWebPage.org , EducationalCyberplayground.com,

    *These plans and objectives are tentative and may be revised according to the needs of the participants.  This will be determined in the preliminary discussions.

    Assessment:  will be determined based on attendance and successful completion of a web site appropriate to the individual's participation goals.