Web+Activity+1+and+2

= Web Activity 2 =

Landforms and Oceans

After reviewing the critiques of my web activity one, I made a few changes on my site to enhance the learning and design. 1. The first revision I made was to add a video. I knew I wanted to do this when I was originally creating my site, but was not sure what to put and where. As I browsed the internet, I discovered a great video clip of continental landforms found in the US. Since I was not hooked on the image I was using for this page, I decided to embed it. It enhances the learning of the landforms and gives more than one great visual. 2. The next revision I made was to change my "HOME" tab, that navigated back to the index page, to the title that I gave the index page, Landforms and Oceans. It made more sense to me to return to "Landforms and Oceans" page instead of "Home" page. 3. I linked the two **images** that appear on each page, oceanic and continental landforms, to the other pages. I did this because the image displayed is what the viewer will be learning about. 4. I revised the wording on a few of the slides. One critique said they did not know the purpose of the site and another said to explain why I used the pages continental and oceanic landforms. Therefore, on my home page, Landforms and Oceans, I focused on the introduction so the reader would understand exactly what information this site was going to provide them with. 5. One of the critiques did not notice that I had an email link at the bottom of my page. Therefore, I highlighted the word TRippy in a different color so the viewer could quickly see that it was an email link. 6. I took the image on my oceanic landforms slide and used //jing// to re-capture the picture. I then highlighted the 5 words in the image so it would catch the viewers eye. I also did this so the viewer could relate the word they were learning to the location in the ocean. 7. Lastly, I added a short blurb near my external links so the viewer would know to click on these links for more information on landforms. Unless the viewer was moving their curser over those words, they would not know that those words were links to external websites.

= Web Activity 1 =

Landforms and Oceans I am very happy with my end product. Getting there, however, was not as easy as I would have thought. I first downloaded KompoZer and started off trying to create my site from scratch. I then quickly realized I needed some guidance on the layout of my information. From the __Web Style Guide__, I realized I needed to organize my information before I started creating my site. I chose to create my site on Landforms and Oceans, a unit I teach to my students. Therefore, I would need a homepage, or index page, to start the site off, and then have two more pages, one being oceanic landforms and one being continental landforms. I downloaded a CSS layout from a free website that fit my needs. The __Web Style Guide__ also suggested that I create one of my internal pages before I created my home/index page. So that is what I did. I opened KompoZer and via the web inserted my layout. I created my second page, oceanic landforms. I made sure the legibility on this page fit the standards from the __Web Style Guide__, because I knew it would be the tone throughout my entire site. After that, is where my troubles started. I watched the tutorials on how to create a page using a CSS layout and even how to include images. I just could not for the life of me figure out how to have more than one page linked to each other. After watching the tutorial about 20 times, I realized that I was making a new page from my index page, or in this case my second page, and needed to save it as another name. From there I would edit and link to the other pages. I also then realized, that in my folder I created on my desktop, I was suppose to have as many internet icons for the number of pages I was creating. Needless to say, I wont forget how to do that! From there, I created a total of 3 pages, Index and two supporting pages on Landforms and Oceans. I had a link on each page to go back Home and to navigate to the other two pages. The __Web Style Guide,__ helped me here to make sure I was navigating my pages to be user friendly to the viewer. Any links that I included to other websites, I made sure to have them open in new tabs. That way when they viewer is done, they can close that tab out and still be where they originally were on my site. I used about ten different links on my site based on the fact that the __Web Style Guide__ said "your readers spend the overwhelming majority of their time on sites other than yours". I enjoyed this task and hope that in the future it will come more naturally to create these types of sites! Items on the competency worksheet that I addressed are:

Creating a site (KompoZer) Creating a new page Enter and format text Insert an image Create a hyperlink Create an email link Set the title Create an list Preview a page in a browser
 * Level 1**

Insert Anchors (However, I took them out) Modified Page Properties
 * Level 2:**