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Educate America
Grant
Level I: School year 1999-2000
involving the basic development of an educational web site.
Even though the list of items available for level one is
long, after two days of training it was determined that all
participats reach only the seventh step. The remaining steps
were only accomplished by a few very advanced
individuals.
Level
II: School year 2000-2001involves expanding the
current educational web site.
Atchison -
Holton - Washburn
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In 1999 Holton school district along with Atchison school
district and Washburn University wrote a grant which focused
on staff training and preservice teachers. This page is the
start of a collaboration process that we hope will continue
far beyond this grant period.
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"Be a risk-taker. Be curious. Explore with your
students. Learn together. If you are willing to experiment
with new ways to do new things, you'll no doubt be
successful"
-Bard Williams, Ed. D
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Outline
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Additional information on the grant is available (copy of
grant, minutes, e-mail addresses, and more)
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Information
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General
Directions
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Directions
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The training you are about to take
involves a hands-on approach. As you go through the training
activities, for additional help click on the video link and
a short video will pop up in a new window (above this page).
For more details watch the video to the right by pointing
and clicking on the graphic.
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Note
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These activities were created using FileMaker's Home Page
3.0 software. The activities should be helpful, however, no
matter what software you are using.
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Educational Web Page Design
Training Activities
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Number
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Task
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Brief
Description
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I.
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Why do I need to
design a Web site?
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Explanation of why educators should utilize the power of
the Web.
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II.
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Bad
design
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Top 6 mistakes of Web page design. Will need to read this
for Activity IV.
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III.
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Example
sites/Storyboard
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View other sites. Good? Bad? You decide and then develop
a storyboard of your own site.
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IV.
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Educate
America Plan
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Now that you have designed a storyboard and have an idea
of how your Web site will look, fill out this online form.
The EAP will be an assessment tool for the grant.
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V.
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Designing your
home page
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A series of essential activities in designing your home
page.
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Locating my Web
page
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This explains how to locate and copy the Web page you
were working on last week and copying to your documents
folder.
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VI.
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Save on Web
server
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Explains how to transfer and save your material on the
Internet server. Do this before quitting each day.
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VII.
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Design
syllabus
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This activity will help you design an online syllabus. It
will also review many of the key elements of Web design with
a few more new tasks.
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VIII.
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Design
schedule
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This activity will walk you through designing an online
schedule and introduce you to tables.
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IX.
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Online
test
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This activity will allow you to create online quizzes and
link them to your home page.
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X.
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Copyright
issues
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Be a good example for your students by demonstrating a
knowledge of copyright and by being prepared to answer your
students' questions.
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NEW
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Converting
word processing docments
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Learn how to convert your word processing doucments into
HTML (Web page).
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XI
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Audio and
video
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Learn how to enhance your site with audio and video clips
as instructional tools.
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XII.
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General
information
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Various components of FileMaker Home Page
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XIII.
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Advanced
features (JavaScript, counters, discussion boards and
html)
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This site demonstrates how to add various JavaScript. A
clear understanding of how a Web page works is essential
before trying this.
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XIV.
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Profiler
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Required by the grant to be retaken at the completion of
day two.
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Additional
resources
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Additional videos on various software packages. Many of
these videos were created by funding received from a 1998-99
TLCF grant.
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