USING SELF-CREATED WEBSITES TO LAUNCH INTERNET PROJECTS Internet websites trawled in advance ‘Themed’ websites: –Asteroids, custom cars, extreme sports, - Antarctica, endangered animals etc. Websites all linked to from ‘Home Site’ Include project documents

PROJECT DOCUMENTS Acknowledging sources from the Internet Box charts Instructions for completing box charts How to take notes from a text Presentations instructions Presentation evaluation criteria Written assessment criteria

HOME SITE DOCUMENTS Discussion topics Role play scenarios Essay topics Generic essay formats

PROCEDURE 1)Students choose one topic from one of the themed websites: Hurricanes from ‘Forces of Nature’ Amphibious cars from ‘Strange Cars’ 2)Students take notes in box charts 3)Have discussion or do role-play [optional] 4)Produce written assignment or presentation

RATIONALE ‘Whole package’ –closely integrated with internet content Cut out often fruitless, time-consuming internet searching [students and teachers!] Sites chosen in advance for lexical simplicity and cultural suitability Students follow ‘two-step’ process: 1] note-taking 2] Essay or PPT Discussion scenarios encourage further involvement

CREATING YOUR OWN INTERNET PROJECT WEBS Use Front Page or Dream Weaver if you want to design from scratch Use ‘click-and-build’ programs like: –Google Page Maker –Geocities –Filamentality If you want to make the sites quickly!

CREATING YOUR OWN INTERNET PROJECT WEBS Make a URL table for your linksURL table Get students to do your web- trawling for you! I assigned them topics for blogs: Extreme sports & Strange Cars They put their links in URL tables

CLICK & BUILD WEBSITE PROGRAMS Filamentality – the absolute easiest! No graphics Google Page Creator – Pretty easy, upload photos, make simple layout changes; click on ‘more’, then ‘labs’, then ‘Google Page Creator. My web pages: MY INTERNET PROJECT SITE mesite/index.htm MY INTERNET PROJECT SITE [relative]MY INTERNET PROJECT SITE