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USING SELF-CREATED WEBSITES TO LAUNCH INTERNET PROJECTS • Internet websites trawled in advance • ‘Themed’ websites: – Asteroids, custom cars, extreme sports, - Antarctica, endangered animals etc. • Websites all linked to from ‘Home Site’ • Include project documents PROJECT DOCUMENTS • Acknowledging sources from the Internet • Box charts • Instructions for completing box charts • How to take notes from a text • Presentations instructions • Presentation evaluation criteria • Written assessment criteria HOME SITE DOCUMENTS • • • • Discussion topics Role play scenarios Essay topics Generic essay formats PROCEDURE 1) Students choose one topic from one of the themed websites: • • Hurricanes from ‘Forces of Nature’ Amphibious cars from ‘Strange Cars’ 2) Students take notes in box charts 3) Have discussion or do role-play [optional] 4) Produce written assignment or presentation RATIONALE • ‘Whole package’ –closely integrated with internet content • Cut out often fruitless, time-consuming internet searching [students and teachers!] • Sites chosen in advance for lexical simplicity and cultural suitability • Students follow ‘two-step’ process: 1] note-taking 2] Essay or PPT • Discussion scenarios encourage further involvement CREATING YOUR OWN INTERNET PROJECT WEBS • Use Front Page or Dream Weaver if you want to design from scratch • Use ‘click-and-build’ programs like: – Google Page Maker – Geocities – Filamentality • If you want to make the sites quickly! CREATING YOUR OWN INTERNET PROJECT WEBS • Make a URL table for your links • Get students to do your webtrawling for you! • I assigned them topics for blogs: Extreme sports & Strange Cars • They put their links in URL tables CLICK & BUILD WEBSITE PROGRAMS • Filamentality – the absolute easiest! No graphics http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/index.html Google Page Creator – Pretty easy, upload photos, make simple layout changes; click on ‘more’, then ‘labs’, then ‘Google Page Creator. My web pages: http://pages.google.com/?pli=1 • MY INTERNET PROJECT SITE http://www.admc.hct.ac.ae/tjohnson/web_projects_ho mesite/index.htm • MY INTERNET PROJECT SITE [relative]