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Workshop Guide: Kirsten
kblincoln@yahoo.com |
Workshop Page 4: Creating Your Own Webpages | ||
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Monterey
Institute of International Studies
Graduate School of Language and Educational Linguistics |
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Welcome to the Fourth (and final) Page of this Language and Internet Workshop. Now that you have surfed for sites, evaluated, and written them into a lesson plan, we are now going to start learning how to make our own webpages.
Now I know that some of you are not that interested in making huge, complicated, chock full of nuts and bolts pages, while others are just raring to go to start learning the basics of HTML (hyper text mark up language-the code used to make webpages). Therefore, I have divided this part of the workshop into four different paths for you to follow, all at different skill levels. I heartily advise you to learn at least a little HTML, it is not that hard (hey, I am technically challenged and I can do it) and can help you do some neat things. But if techno-geekdom is not for you, feel free to go the easy route.
Before you choose your path, there is a little something I think that all of us should read.
| I know you are probably groaning, but please go on and skim through this article, it's a pretty important issue. "Copyright Issues Online" by Kristina Pfaff-Harris. |
| Please make sure that you are careful with your own pages!!!! Please teach about this to your students!!! |
Okay, now we can go on to the more fun part. First of all, when thinking about creating webpages or a website, the two most important issues to consider are:
1. What do you have to say that is interesting?
2. Who are you designing the page for?
These may seem like obvious questions but they deserve thought before jumping into publishing something on the World Wide Web for all the world to see (and your name on it). What kind of page are you going to make? Will there be information there for other language professionals or students? Is it a page focused on a hobby of yours? Just as with writing, before creating a webpage you must consider your audience.
If you would like to read more about this, take a look at "Let There be Web Pages". If not, then go on to the table below and make your choice about what level you would like to choose for the rest of this workshop. (You should already have started a Geocities account before this point. If you haven't gotten yourself a free web account there yet, tell Kirsten, or go to Geocities now and get one yourself)
| Total beginner: I don't have big ambitions, I just want to make a page the easiest way there is, without having to learn anything about HTML. |
| Teacher with little time: I am actually interested in learning how to make webpages, but I don't have the time just now. Can you just show me an easy way to put things like syllabi and class related materials on the web? |
Feel free to check out the various levels before you decide on one. I also suggest that you find someone interested in the same level and pair up with them when making your own webpage. At any time feel free to ask me questions, or to find your own sources of information on the World Wide Web. Good Luck! I look forward to seeing the results!
| Workshop Page One: Introduction | Workshop Page Two: Issues surrounding the use of the Internet for ESL |
| Workshop Page Three: Making Internet lesson plans | Workshop Page Four: Creating a website |