Building a School Web Site: A Hands-on Project for Teachers and Kids

by Wanda Wigglebits

Overview

This friendly and accessible guide leads teachers and students through the creation of a school Web site, providing a hands-on project and learning experience for both. Students learn to participate in the Web not only as surfers but also, more important, as authors and creators. The big picture is presented, including basic HTML, using a Web editor, standards, bandwidth, search engine placement, and animation. The details are fleshed out with simple, step-by-step directions, making this the ideal choice for beginners wishing to create a simple Web site and to gain a better understanding of the Web itself.

Author Biography: Wanda Wigglebits (aka Jeanne Follman) is a technical writer. She has contributed to the publication OnTheInternet and is the author of Getting the Web. She lives in Chicago.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780967945637
Publisher:	Duomo Press
Publication date:	09/28/2001
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	8.51(w) x 7.01(h) x 0.28(d)
Age Range:	8 - 13 Years

About the Author

Wanda Wigglebits is the pen name of Jeanne Follman, a Chicago-based technology writer and contributor to various publications, including OnTheInternet, the official publication of the Internet Society (www.isoc.org). Two chapters of her book Getting the Web first appeared in the electronic version of this publication. For Building A School Web Site, Jeanne worked with area teachers to develop a hands-on project aimed at making the joy of creating on the Web accessible to everyone.

Table of Contents

Getting Started

Communication

Publishing: Power and Responsibility

Five Easy Pieces

Five Easy Pieces: Files

Five Easy Pieces: Words

Five Easy Pieces: Pictures

Five Easy Pieces: Color

Five Easy Pieces: Links

Using a Web Editor

Getting Found

Squeezing It Through the Wire

Open Standards

Animation

Epilogue

Appendix

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Editorial Reviews

Gr 3-8-This simple guide is divided into two sections. Wigglebits first provides the basic commands used in writing HTML. These commands consist of five pieces of a Web page-files, words, pictures, colors, and links-with step-by-step instructions that allow readers to follow along and create a Web page using either a Mac or a PC. The second section shows the ease of using an HTML editor. Common terminology and buttons as well as steps are explained. Other topics touched on include push and pull communications, Web addresses, search engines, use of tags, bandwidth and pixels, Internet standards, and instructions for creating animation. Straightforward directions make the process easy to follow yet some unnecessary explanations may be disconcerting to those who have never been exposed to HTML code. Overall, there is no consistency to the organization.-Susan Shaver, Hemingford Public Schools, NE Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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