8:00am - 5:00pm
April 24, 1999
Middle School Computer Science Inservice
Agenda
8:00 - 9:00 Greetings - Overview
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Settle in and Prepare for the Journey
9:00 - 9:15 Windows 95 Tips & Tricks
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My Computer, Right Clicking Mouse, The Start Button, 3½ floppy,
and other cool stuff
9:15 - 9:45 The Internet (Searching)
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:15 Why Design a Web Site?
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Style, Style, Style [Click HERE]
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Can you think of any reasons?
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What makes up a Web page and Web site?
10:15 - 10:30 Getting Started - Planning and the Design Phase
10:30 - 10 - 45 Break
10:45 - 11:30 HTML - Do you have to learn it!
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Learn the basics to survive [Site1][Site2]
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Tags, and more tags
11:30 - 1:00 Break for Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Basic Web Page Elements
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Text (Fonts, sizes, colors, spell check etc.)
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Links (hypertext, image, and mailto: links)
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Graphics, Movies, and Sounds (.gif & .jpg) -[Link1]
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Tables (create and modify)
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Bullets & numbered lists
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Anchors
2:00 - 3:30 Advanced Features
Publishing Your Site
Completing the Site
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Meta Tags: Titles, Descriptions, and Key words
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Registering your site with the major search engines
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Telling other about your site: (listserves, newsgroups, educational sites)
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Getting site statistics (fee counters)
Additional Resource Sites:
Web Teacher
Created by two teachers from Tennessee, this is maybe the best free,
interactive, self-paced Internet tutorial available. Learn about
the World Wide WEb, email, videoconferencing, chat rooms, Web page design,
Internet safety, and online curriculum design. Another
good tutorial to try is by Joe
Barta.
BeSeen
Are you ready to maintain, enhance, and promote your site. This
might be one place to stop and look. Add a hit counter, custom navigation
bar, guest book, online quiz, and much more at this site.
Also see: FastCounter
& WebTracker
Web Site Creation Software
Graphic Converter
(MAC)
Just what it say it is, this is a graphic conversion program.
Paint Shop Pro (WIN)
Medium level paint program with a wide audience that continues to grow
and command a following.
Web Site Editors
Free Web Hosting
Add Interactivity
A Gathering Place for Links and Learning
Excellent CS Examples
Style Guide
Schools on the Web
This site was created by Roderick
Hames
for the primary purpose of teaching and demonstrating
computer & business skills..
Any distribution or copying without the express or
written consent of
Alton C. Crews Middle School or its creator is strictly
prohibited.
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Any questions, comments or suggestions concerning
this simulation or this handbook should be forwarded
to
Roderick
Hames, Computer Science / Business Education Teacher
Copyright© 1999, Alton
C. Crews Middle School: CS Dept