ECI 575 - Web Development for Educators - Agenda for Week of September 27

Tasks

• Finish Personal Home Site (Assignment 1)
• Publish the Personal Site using FTP
• Complete Formatting and Anchors Exercise
• Begin Assignment #2
• Assignments

Finish Personal Home Site

Remember, this assignment has a strict set of required elements.

• Use the site structure assigned to place the three required pages.
• Complete all of the formatting for your three pages.
• Link each page to the others using relative links.
• You should now have your hotlist, resume and home page (index.html) complete to first revision phase.
• To extend the personal pages, be sure in incorporate effective text formatting.
• (Extra Credit) The resume and hotlist would benefit from clickable table of contents. Use the guidance from the Formatting and Anchors exercise below.
• Here is my example of a simple personal web site. It would easily get an "A".

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Publish the Personal Site using FTP

Your personal website needs to be published on a Web Server.

FTP Tutorial

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Formatting and Anchors Exercise

1. Download this text file
2. Format the file to look like this
3. This file will need a clickable table of contents, using the anchor tag

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Begin Assignment 2.

Create a WebQuest

An educational topic will be decided upon by each individual. A simple WebQuest will be designed and developed in accordance to the readings.

This educational project seeks to create a professional working relationship between ECI 575 students. You are to individually create an educational website that teaches or informs its users about an agreed while discussing your work in a small group setting on BlackBoard.

A design document and accounting for all elements of your WebQuest should accompany this project. This assignment must be completed individually.

Find your group in BlackBoard by going to Communication - Group Pages. Enter the Group's Discussion Area to meet your support network.

Step 1 - Read about WebQuests through the links in the Assigned Readings. Then complete this WebQuest about WebQuests. The target audience is grade 7-12 humanities teachers, but you will get a great deal out of this exercise.

Step 2 - Decide on your topic.
Send this to me via the Digital Drop Box.

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Lab Work

• Complete Personal Web Site by next week. It should look something like this.
• Begin assignment 2
• Find at least one photograph to include in your site by next week

Readings

• Krug Chapter 2, 3, 4 and 5
  • Reading Notes
• Be familiar with all links at WebQuests. Read:
  • Some Thoughts about WebQuests
  • Building Blocks of a WebQuest