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April 04, 2005
Working on your Website
By now, all of you should be working in Publisher to design and plan your website. Your site does not have to be complicated. Think of what you want to use it for. Everyone should spend all club time working on their sites. Next week you will show your site (in progress, it does not have to be finished) with the class.
Here are some ideas:
Post your poetry, lyrics or creative writing.
The web makes it easy to get "published" and share your work. The web's Non-Linear Hypertext (links) can add a new twist to a story by letting you write different endings, or allowing the reader to go through the story in different ways by clicking hotlinked words in the story. (I can show you how to do this).
Create a personal page centered around a hobby or interest
Gather resources, links and images for a hobby or interest. Why is it interesting to you? How would you make a reader of your page interested too?
Tell a story with images.
Make your own images, or collect images and then tell a story with them. You can try this with just 3 images, or many images.
Work on a group project
Work on one website project as a team. Some can be working on writing the text, or preparing the pictures, while another person is designing the site and creating the navigation. Most large web projects are produced by teams working together.
Make a links page
With your favorite links. Explain why each is important to you. Include some of the links from the club's main page. Spend some more time at those links, and add the one's you like.
Make a "proof of concept" website for a game
Before teams of game designers begin working on a new game, they sketch out storyboards of the game's action, characters, "backstory," and plotlines. You can create pages for a game you might design, using the storyboard to design the game and then posting the images and storyboards on your webpages (I will help you scan the images).
Posted by Eleanor Ramsay at April 4, 2005 02:12 PM