Activity 2: Preparing Links Page for a Lesson

Objectives:

1. Post project instructions on the web.

2. To construct a workable links page that students could use while working on the above project.

Note:

The project instructions on "Creating a Biography Web Page" for the students are already provided for you here:

http://wicschool.tripod.com/unit_webdesign/project1Bio_sample.htm

1. Write (copy) a lesson and link your site to it. (5 minutes)

• Go to the above url using Internet Explorer.
• Press File…. Edit page with Microsoft Frontpage.
• Read through the lesson idea and make any changes you see fit. You can even change the whole idea if you like.
• Press File… Save. Save the file with an appropriate name ("intro1_aug24"), in the folder called unit1. (Remember, no spaces!)

Option 1:

• Still in Microsoft Frontpage, open your Semester plan page.
• Write the subtitle

• Under the subtitle write

• Highlight the words Lesson 1.
• Press Insert…. Link and create a link to the intro1_aug24 you just saved.

Option 2:

The other option would be to make a link from your Links Page to the lesson instructions associated with that link. You could even write the assignment there.

2. Creating Appropriate Links on Your Links Page

• Open your Links page in Microsoft Frontpage
• Prepare a sub-catagory title appropriate to your subject area. For example, a science teacher could create the title Famous Scientists.

• Adjust the window so that the Frontpage program fills the right third of the screen.
• Open the Internet Explorer Browser on the left 2/3 of the screen.
• Begin searching for Famous Persons using the methods suggusted below.
• When you find an appropriate site, you have two ways of getting a link to that page onto your Links Page.

1. You can drag the little icon next to the address in IE, into the correct empty line in your Frontpage editor. A page title will appear that is already linked. You can change that title,and the link will remain.

2...Of course, you can also highlight the url address (http://……………).

Then Press Edit…. Copy.

Then go to your Links page and type in a title.

Highlight the title and press Insert… Link in the url field.

Press OK.

3. Publishing your new site.

Just drag your whole Yourname_web folder into the Teacher's Web folder, so that the old one (there) is replaced by the new one (on your computer). Let me know when it is done.

Same procedure using an FTP program at home, however, due to speed of uploading, it is better to replace only the pages or folders that your have changed.