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=Beginning Web Pages= June 23, 2009 12:30-3:30pm BOE Room Attendance Max 6- **FULL **


 * Summary**

This session will overview webpage basics, introduce various avenues to create a classroom web-presence, and provide work time to develop a web-presence.

District File Structure for Webpages
At VPSD, each teacher has a folder on the W: drive that is their web space. After you log into the network, click on My Computer and navigate to your W: drive. Saving html pages into this folder make them accessible to the public. Any files or folders that you want accessed publicly need to be located within your W: drive.

Inside of your W: drive, you can further organize your files by creating folders for images, documents, pdfs, etc, while keeping your main pages in the main folder. This front-end organization makes changes down the road more simple.

Images and documents that you want on your webpage are not really on your webpage, they are linked to your page, but actually reside somewhere else. HTML tells your browser where to find the files and what to do with them on the viewer's computer. Therefore, any changes to the linking result in the box with the red X indicating that the item that is supposed to be there cannot be found in the location you told it where it was.

There are several different ways you can have a web presence for your class at VPSD. Here are three popular ones.

FrontPage
How to use FrontPage

[|FrontPage CustomGuide]

Word
MS Word can also be used to create html pages. Word is tricky though, because formatting is not very simple when going from Word to your browser

**Wikis**
Wikis are a simple, hosted solution for simple to dynamic webpages. With wikis, html or web file structure is tremendously simplified. Wikis are a staple of Web 2.0, but do not //have// to incorporate contributed aspects that make wikis read/write.

Wikispaces offers a plus plan for free, ad-free wikis to educators. Setting one up takes minutes. Safety and security, managed website where the creator has rights to who can join and contribute

[|www.wikispaces.com]

Moodle
Many people opt to utilize their Moodle site for their classroom webpage, reducing the need for dual work with updating a webpage and Moodle. To do this, a Moodle site that is relatively generic towards your classroom would be best, in a topic format, with each topic either being a different course or subject (i.e. math, spelling, science or English 10 period 1, period 2, period 3). There are many themes to choose from to differentiate your site from the generic district Moodle theme.