Well this week, the rubber met the road, and by that I mean I dove into Journey 2, creating a website. I created my "baby" website using Microsoft Word. I never knew you could do that! I do realize though that Microsoft Word isn't the best way to make a website, but it is one way. I turned in the baby website Monday, and then using Inspiration, created the plan for my actual media center website. I submitted it today (Tuesday) and it was approved. Dr. B, you said in your comments, "complete at least one of them in detail", meaning one of my webpages. May I ask exactly what you mean? I planned on giving each page a heading, text, images, contact info., and navigation links to all other pages on the site. Is that enough? Is that what you mean?
As I think back over this week, here are some of the things that come to my mind:
1. Internet vs. World Wide Web - There's a difference. I've heard this before, but it was good to read exactly what the differnce is once more. I read over the information several times to make sure I really got it. Basically, the way I understand it, the internet is the physical connection between computers, and the world wide web, is the electronic documents that you view when you get on the internet. Am I correct?
2. Step one in planning for your website is to analyze your audience. I think the audience for my media center website would be both parents and students. Is that ok? I plan on creating the website with those two "patrons" in mind.
3. I really chuckled out loud when I looked at the website called Websites That Suck and Bert's Extra Ugly Web Pages. It's always a good idea to show your students non-examples, and these are some of the finest.
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Working backwards, I'm glad you liked the bad examples....of course, I think we run into bad ones everyday. As long as we're not the ones making them....it isn't that hard to make a good one (or a bad one.)
ReplyDeleteAudience analysis is good. I think too many media specialists concentrate on students and forget about teachers and parents. Even worse, some make them only for themselves! We really need to do more with parents and the web, Twitter, Facebook and many of the new social technologies have a lot to offer. I think we also can offer them help in internet safety, searching, understanding datbases, etc.
I think you've got the Internet vs. WWW thing. Another way to look at it is that the Internet is hardware and the Web is software. Here's another explanation: http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2002/Web_vs_Internet.asp
As for your project, unless you're going to put your pages online soon, you don't really need to flesh out all the content because it will change and because you'd spend more time researching the content than playing with the mechanics of building webpages. For example, on your Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl page...titles will change, voting info would need updating, book trailers might be developed by you or students, you might want to offer reviews by students or others so develop it in full would take time and research. Maybe better to list what would be on the page or where you might go to get content. Of maybe that would BE your one page. UP to you.
If you think about it, a page is made up of text, links, images; maybe some widgets, tables, and forms. But if you can do the m on one page, you can do them on all. Better to spend your time learning as much as you can on a page or even comparing web development tools (I think) to find what will work for you. You might also want to find out what is used or approved in your school or district, wherever your web server would be located if you aren't using a hosted site.