exemplar activities

Unit A - Creating a page for the school web site

Swiss Cottage School, Camden

I started off by planning what I wanted on my web page on paper and then used word to create some word searches for pupils to print. This helps to make the site more interesting for pupils as they are not simply looking at different pages on the internet, they can print and complete the sheets for themselves.

I took some photos with our Malvica digital camera. The beauty of this camera is that photos are stored directly onto a floppy disc with extraction files that download onto the computer for easy photo viewing. No extra photo package is required. Examples of pupil work were saved onto floppy disc from the hard drive of the computer in the Science room where the work was completed. Finally I used Microsoft front page to design my science home page. I selected my font (comic sans) and highlighted the text and chose a colour. I inserted a photo of myself so that the pupils will identify with the page.

I was now ready to assemble my web page and its links and then upload the page to the school website. I opened front page and found my file. I needed to create 3 more pages that I could use for hyperlinks with different files on them to match the options that I had put on my home page. I clicked file, then new, then web or page then blank. This gave me a new html page that I could input information onto. I then used the insert icon to input either a file (for the student work) or picture (for the photos). I repeated this until I had all of the information that I wanted on each page. I then saved each of my pages in front page. For the word searches that I had produced, I wanted the pupils to be able to open them in word as this makes them easier to print so I saved the files to the hard drive of the computer. I went to my network places in my computer, then to shared documents on computer 1 in the IT room, school web site and then pasted in the files so that I could use them.

I created hyperlinks between each of my pages by highlighting the text that I had already typed and highlighted, right clicked with the mouse and selected hyperlink. Then I scrolled down to find the file name that I wanted and selected it with a single left click. I changed the text for the header at the top of the page, added a screen tip then clicked on ok. I used the same process to create hyperlinks back to the science page for each of my 3 pages so that it is easier for the pupils to use.

Before publishing my web page to the web site I view the pages in the browser to make sure that they were the correct size (our pupils are fine scrolling up and down but tend to find it difficult scrolling across a page). When I was happy I published the pages to the web. To do this I went into file, publish web, Typed in the web address, inserted the user name and password. I then scrolled down the files looking for any of my files with a tick. I then right clicked on the file and selected publish.

You can find the web page at www.swisscottage.camden.sch.uk enter via the pupils icon, click on work and the select science work.

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