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May 27, 2005
Group Website - WSNS
Today we should all be contributing to the group website. We will bring together the pictures we took of some of the clubs and each of you can help identify and write captions for the pictures.
Make sure you all show me your own websites before the end of today. We will link them from our group pages. Export your site from Publisher as HTML (file > save as website) so it can be added to the final project. Please include a short paragraph about the clubs you took and what you learned.
Posted by Eleanor Ramsay at 01:50 PM
May 23, 2005
Finish Your Websites - Healy
You should finish your website and export it as HTML so it can be added to the Club final project. Please include a short paragraph about the clubs you took and what you learned.
We will also be creating the Club gallery pages today.
Please be respectful of your peers, the computer lab and the goals of this club. Fighting, eating, harrassing each other and playing loud games or music will not be tolerated. IMing and watching videos is not allowed.
Posted by Eleanor Ramsay at 03:21 PM
May 16, 2005
Club Update: Stuff you should know
There are only a few more sessions of Web Club left this year!
By now most of you should have created a few webpages or a site you are somewhat happy with. Remember that this is just a beginning! You can continue to work on your pages in Publisher (or export it as HTML and then open your site in another web editor, like Nvu or Dreamweaver, for example).
Today:
- Finish working on your own webpages.
- Begin working on the Group webpages.
- Write a short review of the clubs you took and what you learned/did in those clubs. Write this in either Word, Notepad or Publisher
Stuff you should understand by now:
- What HTML is and what a website is
- How to make a simple page using HTML code
- How to use Paint to size, crop and create images for your pages
- How to use Publisher to design a site and add links to pictures and other pages
- How to export your pages from Publisher as HTML (a website)
- How to copy images from the web, save them locally and then put those images on a webpage.
- That most images you find on the web are protected by copyright
- That means you should not "steal" those images. "Fair use" allows you to learn by using copyrighted images and texts, but does not necessarily give you permission to use those images without permission or put them on your public webpages. There are many "royalty free" images on the web you can use.
Posted by Eleanor Ramsay at 02:23 PM
May 13, 2005
Group Web Site in Progress
Everyone should continue to contribute to the group page by helping with the design, creating heads and logos and creating a page about the web club. What did you like the most? What did you learn?
Your websites will be linked from the group site for the final event. We will discuss different options for getting your website online, including getting your parents permission and staying safe on the Internet, during the last two sessions. Each person will get a disk with their work on it.
If you haven't spent much time exploring the links from the Club homepage, spend some time there today checking out some of the sites. There are some new ones to explore and these sites have lots of information and interactive elements to help you get the most out of this club, and help with homework and your other classes.
Posted by Eleanor Ramsay at 12:12 PM
May 09, 2005
Group Website Project - Healy
There is a teacher-training class in the computer lab during May. That means we will have to meet in the library for at least some part of the next few sessions. When possible, we will move to the lab when it becomes available. I will go over the "library rules" with you, but you probably already know them. Lets make sure we don't give anyone any reason to stop letting us have computer clubs here at Healy.
Last week we discussed making a site celebrating the 21st Century Clubs at Healy and some of you signed up for different "development teams."
This week's teams:
Web Designers:
Zack and Kathia
Work together. Decide who will do what.
Publisher will only open one document at a time but you can work on separate parts of the site and we'll merge them later.
- Using Publisher, create a template for the 21st Century Clubs site.
- Choose a blank page.
- Decide how wide you want the page to be: File > Page Setup
- Add Navigation and other page elements: Insert > Design Gallery Objects. We will need a home page, story pages (for text about the different clubs) and gallery pages (for pictures).
Photographers:
Angie and Lovette
- Take pictures of today's clubs (Ask Allison for the camera)
- Copy them to the Save Work Here > Somerville 21 Web Club > Healy > Final Project folder(I can help you with this).
Logo and Header Designers:
Everyone in the club should try making headlines and graphics today (for the club site, or their own pages if you haven't tried it yet). I will see if I can get a list of all the clubs from Allison.
Try using:
- Use Word Art (look for the WA icon), which is built into Publisher
- CoolText Logo Generator
- 3dText Maker
- Save your logos in the Final Project folder, or your own folder.
- Look in the Clip Art folder (in Publisher) to find art to use
You can also go to clip art sites (follow links from our links page).
Do not use images from a Google search for this.
Posted by Eleanor Ramsay at 12:16 PM
May 08, 2005
Using KidPix Art on Your Webpages
You can use pictures and animation you make in KidPix on your webpages. Here's how.
Saving Pictures as a gif or jpg:
Launch Kid Pix:
OPEN desired picture
Go to FILE and select EXPORT a GRAPHIC
Name your file. Notice, you can select the gif format for pictures or the jpeg format for photographs.
Click on SAVE
Exporting KidPix SlideShows as Quicktim Movies:
Launch Kid Pix
OPEN desired SlideShow
Go to FILE and select SAVE as a QUICKTIME MOVIE
That movie can be linked from a webpage
Posted by Eleanor Ramsay at 03:02 PM
May 05, 2005
Making a Group Website - WSNS
Today (Friday), we begin working on our group website. We decided to make a site celebrating the 21st Century Clubs. Last week you signed up for different "development teams."
This week's teams:
Web Designers:
Max and Adam
Work together. Decide who will do what.
Publisher will only open one document at a time.
- Using Publisher, create a template for the 21st Century Clubs site.
- Choose a blank page.
- Decide how wide you want the page to be: File > Page Setup
- Add Navigation and other page elements: Insert > Design Gallery Objects. We will need a home page, story pages (for text about the different clubs) and gallery pages (for pictures).
Photographers:
Christine and Amanda
- Take pictures of today's clubs (Ask Rosanna for the camera)
- If you have taken pictures this week, copy them to the Save Work Here > Somerville 21 Web Club > WSNS > Final Project folder
(If you cannot do this without me, don't worry, we can do it together next week).
Logo and Header Designers:
Brian, Joey and Joey
Actually, everyone else in the club should practice making headlines and graphics today (for the club site, or their own pages if you haven't tried this yet).
Here is a list of all of the clubs at WSNS.
- Use Word Art (look for the WA icon), which is built into Publisher
- CoolText Logo Generator
- 3dText Maker
- Save your logos in the Final Project folder, or your own folder.
- Look in the Clip Art folder (in Publisher) to find art to use You can also go to clip art sites (follow links from our links page). Do not use images from a Google search for this.
Have fun, be good, and I will see you next week.
-Eleanor
Posted by Eleanor Ramsay at 10:24 AM
May 02, 2005
Only 5 classes left!
Today we will discuss working as a group on a website about the 21st Century Clubs. We will need to create a team to design the site and create templates (in Publisher), photograph the other clubs, create headers and logos for the group site and write some short descriptions of the different clubs.
Keep working on your own websites today, and sign up to be part of the team.
The final Club celebration will be Friday, June 10.
Posted by Eleanor Ramsay at 02:29 PM