Creating a Classroom Website

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Creating a Classroom Website

• Danni Gilbert
• Mountain Home High School
• Social Studies
• gilbert-dc
• dannigilbert_at_msn.com

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Why create a classroom website?

• Communication with
• Students
• Parents
• Community
• Publication of student work
• Showcase sports teams/activities

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Planning your Website

• Who is my target audience?
• Students, parents, athletes, etc. Can and will
  be a combined audience.
• What are my objectives?
• Communication, showcase work, etc.

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Planning your Website, continued

• Make a plan
• Design on paper
• Look at existing classroom websites
• Stages
• Planning
• Implementation
• Maintenance
• Start small, expand later

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Building your Site

• FrontPage take a class or teach yourself
• Hosting information Gayle Henderson
• Get feedback (before, during and after)

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Characteristics of a Good Website

• Visual Appeal
• Ease of Navigation
• Content
• Technical Considerations

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Visual Appeal

• Size of graphics
• Background color
• Font type, size or color (true type)
• Animation
• Frames

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Ease of Navigation

• Less is more
• Navigation bar on every web page!
• Download time

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Content

• Value
• Reliability
• Up to date
• Grammar
• Spelling
• Privacy concerns

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Technical Considerations

• Download time
• Broken links
• Orphan pages
• No themes

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Resources

• Presentation follow link on my website
• Sample sites
• Brenda Raub - http//www.mtnhomesd.org/mhhs/Depart
  ments/ArtDepartment-JLS2/index.htm
• George Raezer - http//www.raezersharp.com/
• Danni Gilbert - http//www.mtnhomesd.org/mhhs/Clas
  srooms/Ms_Gilbert/index.htm