Lesson 4
How can we share and present our research by making web pages?
Objective:
Students will learn to create simple html pages as a vehicle for presenting
the Inspiration web.
Materials:
-- Computer with Internet connection, Inspiration software and simple
word processor such as simple text or notepad.
-- Projector to project website and Inspiration demo.
Procedures:
1. Open word processor.
2. Open the Inspiration web.
3. Export the web as an html page and save it in a folder.
4. Using these informational sites, teach the creation of a simple html
page.
http://goodellgroup.com/tutorial/
http://lynda.com/hexh.html
The tutorial can be worked through by students independently or together
using the projector. Not all lessons in the tutorial are necessary for
a simple html lesson.
Create and name one
simple html page that becomes a template for the students.
Sample template page could look like this:
(NOTE: the text in red is the area that the students will replace with
their own information.)
<html>
<head>
<title>My Civil War Period Slavery Study
</title>
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<script type="text/javascript">
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_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-6027698-2']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
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</head>
<body>
<br>My Civil War Period Slavery Study
<br>
<br> Type your name here
<br>Type your class here
<br>Type the date here
<p align="center"><font size="+1" face="verdana"
color="#0077JJ">This study of slavery was done using three
sources of information.
<br>
Primary: Type your primary source here.
<br>
Secondary: Type your secondary source here.
<br>
My responses: Type your response to the project
here.
</font></p><font size="+1" face="verdana"
color="#0077JJ">
<p>"From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across
the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under
the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves,
most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil
War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations,
in cities, and on small farms."
<br>
<a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html">The
Interviews</a>
</p>
<p>These interviews are <a href= "http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html">in
the collection of the Library of Congress.</a>
<p>I read the transcribed interview with Type the name of your
person here. </p>
<p>It can be found at: Type the URL of the
person's interview you read here.</a><br>
</p>
<p><a href="person.html">Click
here to go to my Inspiration web.</a> </p>
</font></body>
</html>
As noted above, refer to
the Library of Congress collection and the URL for the Slave Narratives.
Create a simple text link to the page with the Inspiration web. On that
page create a simple link back to the student’s main page.
Allow the students
to change the font color, size and style to personalize the html page.
See student webpages
in the student work section.
Optional discussion: Why do people create web pages?
Why do people share research and information? How do we give create
to people for sharing their information after we read/use it? What is
plagiarism? Refer to this URL for a discussion on plagiarism:
http://georgetown.edu/honor/plagiarism.html
Refer to this URL for examples of how to cite sources:
http://geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Tower/6766/bibliography
Assessment: Can students create two html pages, one
main one and one page of the Inspiration web? Can the students create
links so the user can navigate to the web and back to the main page?