Presentation: Building Educational Websites: Why &How?

Create your own webPages : Why & How?

a presentation online at the BaW 2005 session

invitation by Daf & Tere Feb 2, 2005

16:00- 17:00 GMT

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What is a webpage?

Why create webpages?

My reasons

Your reasons

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How to create a webpage?

Free Website providrs: Geo, Tripod, Bravenet

Free HTML editors: Built in access built in windows , frontpage, FTP

DREAMWEAVOR (My favorite, but not free)

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the FUN & crucial part: but is it really FUN?

Website designing

I will use this software to draw a map: http://www.smartdraw.com/index.htm

Getting started: before you create the first page think of the following

(I will put all the items below on one page using the smartdraw software...

What do you think Mama?

PURPOSE
MATERIAL
VISITORS/AUDIENCE
WEBSAFETY MATTERS
SOME HTML KNOWLEDGE AIN"T a BAD IDEA at ALL
show examples of good and bad website design
it all depend on your purpose
Tables or Frames? Accessabiility issues: see: http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/abdesign.html & Charls kelly tips:at manythings.org
Images?
Color?can we use whatever colors we want? See this site: http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/00/37/index2a.html & http://www.webreference.com/dev/graphics/palette.htmlsize?

What about disabled visitors? Know your audience/purpose of your pages and work accordingly

Have confidence: waht is good for you might not be good for me (stick to your purposes)

learn each step at a time to avoid being overwhelmed

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Advantages / Disadvantages

How & why I use my webpages: My purpose: many peopel ask me why I have a website?

Answer:

Webpresence

building communities online: your students and you and the globe!

communication

stay connected with my students and colleagues and the globe

I'm learning: ongoing learning experiences

the maintanance part!! webpresence (a quote from Vance's article: )

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Do We Need to Learn HTML?

A little knowledge of it would help a lot!

It is useful and helps you

edit things quickly from any pc.

no worried about hacking , damaging your files.

you can pinch code your published sites and save them.

n more furteration and waste of time.you can edit a space before the slash in the br-element - otherwise , also

older browsers may either ignore the line break, or just crash.

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Some free software to integrate into your webpages

quizz crerators / vocabulary exercises/ hotpotatoe /

chat ptograms: yahoo mesenger / msn / voice-chat skype / groupboards

survey creators

smartdraw.com ..etc... (And When Stuck go to: vancestevens.com

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Web-pages Created Before and Modified, Improved, Developed After I Joined WIA! (a screensshot of this page: http://www.geocities.com/esl_efl_ku/before_after_wia.htm