Creating a Web Page for Jepson

Project: Create a web site - several pages - on a topic that is related to a curricular subject. You will need to decide on four areas of information about the main topic.

Alternative Assignment (based on time allowed in class): Create a web site about you! Include four pages; a home page, one about your family, a school event and what you like to do in your free time. Click here to download the Web Site Planning form for a Personal Web site.

Planning | Examples | Sources | Publishing | Links

Planning

Do your planning in Inspiration (or on a paper as a graphic organizer.) You may add as much information to the planner as you wish, it will be the only printed document that you turn in. Example in Inspiration. Click here to download the planning form for the Web Site - Research Topic.

Use double headed arrows indicating that there is a hyperlink to and from each page. You can create more sub topics if you wish, this is an example of a minimum.

Some examples for web site topics might be:

History	Math	Geography	Science	Art	English	Misc.
Abraham Lincoln	Famous mathematicians	Fiji Island's native people	The volcanoes on Hawaii	Study of Picasso	The Outsiders	Famous inventors
Ships lost in the Bermuda Triangle	Math as a career	Traveling in Italy	Newest atomic elements	Major forms of art	Edgar Allen Poe	How paper is made
Weapons used in World War II	Pascal's Triangle	Country in Africa	Fish of Belize	The Louvre	How to get a story published	Hershey's Factory
History of nuclear submarines	How to factor a quadratic equation	The Eiffel Tower	How solar cells work	Using various mediums for art	Dr. Seuss and his books
Napoleon and his Wars	Using math in everyday life	Ayer's Rock and why it's important to the Aboriginal tribes	Different types of clouds	Wall art in cities	Harry Potter phenomenon	Babbage and Lady Ada of Lovelace
Why we wanted to be free of England - Revolutionary War	Money used around the world	Stonehenge	How is snow formed	Ancient art found on cave walls	Spelling words that give you grief	Photography with a digital camera
Crusades in Europe	How a business makes money	Tsunamis and their devastation	Different animals that survive in the tundra	Tibetan folk art	How to research a paper for school	Animation as a career
History of the Roman Coliseum	Careers in the armed forces	Drought in Africa	Bats	Women painter's of the 19th century Europe	Different types of poetry and examples	Drive in movie theaters

Here are some general categories that you might pick a specific topic from. For examples Animals could be narrowed down to dogs and then to a specific breed of dogs.

Animals	American History	Atoms	Rocks and Minerals
Bats	Cells	Chemistry	Space
Chickens	Civilizations	Civil War	Volcanoes
Colonial Times	Deserts	Dinosaurs	Whales
Earthquakes	Food	Electricity	Revolutionary War
Famous Authors	Immigration	History	Simple Machines
Holidays	The Moon	Light	Time
Lobsters	Oceanography	Magnets	Wetlands
Math	Plants	Native Americans	Science
States	Weather	Planets	US Geography

You can use Yahoo! directory to cruise through categories and get ideas.

References and Sources for your Web Site

Keep track of the URL's you use to gather research for the pages. You can store this information in a Word document and then copy and paste into your web pages when you are ready.

URL in its entirety

Name of the web page

Who created and/or maintains the site

When it was created and/or updated

Publishing your web site

You can publish your web site on your own sponsored ISP - internet service provider - such as AOL or MSN. If you wish for your site to be published on the Jepson web site it must have the following things done correctly:

All hyperlinks within and out of the pages
All pictures and images correctly stored
Folder with the web page files and graphics folder must contain ONLY the files that are needed to upload, all extras must be deleted.
A uploading paper must be completed and turned in - see your teacher

Links

Link to sample web site with specific ideas for creating and designing web pages

Link to FrontPage Basic handout with specifics on "how to" in FrontPage

Link to a web site to show you how to create pages using HTML code

Link to Icon Bazaar - a great place to get icons and images for web pages

Link to rubric used for grading the web site

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