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Title: Classroom Web Page Development Rules of Usage


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Classroom Web PageDevelopmentRules of Usage
  • Presented by
  • Kimberly Davis

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Web Page Layout
  • Free Software
  • www.Freewebs.com
  • www.Classjump.com
  • Benefits of Using Free Website Software
  • User-friendliness
  • Template options
  • Fees (or lack there of)
  • Features included with fees
  • Additional features

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Things to remember
  • When creating a classroom website, remember the
    following
  • Don't use icons/images/designs that are unrelated
    - make sure there is a connection
  • Don't use a background that interferes with the
    message, text or other information on the page
  • Make sure the URL is easy for your students to
    remembernot too long.
  • Dont share your username and password with
    students
  • Proofread before you publish
  • Try out all linksbroken links suck!

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Benefits of Class Website
  • Great way to communicate with parents and they
    love it as well.
  • Post homework and upcoming tests, important
    announcements and upcoming project due dates
  • Saves time
  • Parents do access the page from their work place
  • When a student is absent

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Classroom Website Content
A GOOD WEBSITE HAS
  • o Daily Assignments - List of daily assignments
    given to students
  • o Monthly Calendar - List of planned events
  • o Teacher (Biography) and School Information
  • o Contact Information - Phone numbers, voicemail
    ext, email, etc.
  • o Classroom Projects - List of projects and
    information
  • o Student Resources - Clipart, Cool Website
    Links, etc.
  • o Parent Resources - Grading Scale, MAP Info,
    Forms, etc.
  • o OTHERS

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Rules of Usage
  • Make sure your links work.
  • This will prevent disappointed readers. The best
    way to make sure this doesn't happen is to test
    the pages several times - from different domains
    if possible, at minimum from different machines

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Rules of Usage
  • Page content should be limited.

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Rules of Usage
  • Consider white-space balance
  • As in art, balance between objects, between dark
    and light, is necessary.

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Rules of Usage
  • Maintain stylistic coherence with graphics
  • This is just a common sense design approach -
    continuity of design elements.

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Rules of Usage
  • Avoid dead-end links
  • Give your readers a "way out" of your pages that
    is to your advantage.

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Rules of Usage
  • Place important information at or near the top of
    the page
  • It should be visible when the page first appears.

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Rules of Usage
  • Indicate size on large files that will be
    downloaded
  • This is a courtesy to modem users in particular!

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Rules of Usage
  • Place links on the word that describes where the
    link goes - never on the word "here"
  • Need any more be said?

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Rules of Usage
  • Make titles very descriptive
  • Titles show up at the top of browsers, get saved
    on bookmark lists and hotlists - they need to say
    more than "stuff" for them to be a good reference
    back to your pages.

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More Free Website Software
  • www.EducatorPages.com
  • www.Zoomshare.com
  • www.Freewebspace.com
  • www.blogger.com
  • www.wikispaces.com
  • www.Scholastic.com
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