Foundations of America History Fair Project Introduction to Website Construction
Weebly.com Why Weebly Free Required for NHD
Getting Started Logging In Creating a Site Username—topic Password—remember it Email—First Class Creating a Site “Create a Site” Title for Site—project title Domain for Site—projecttitle.weebly.com
Weebly Basics Editing tools Editing Window
Play Around. Experiment. Editing Tools Elements: Different Things you put on a page Design: Overall Look Pages: Adding Pages Settings: Site Title Play Around. Experiment.
Website Expectations 6 Main Pages Feedback Blog Thesis Page Before Topic After Process Paper Annotated Bibliography Feedback Blog
Thesis Page Like an Introduction Student Name(s)—Last Initial only, NO last name(s) Thesis Statement
Before, Topic, After Pages Like Body Paragraphs Each page should have topic sentence at top of page Before—what things were like before your topic Topic—what is your topic; what happened After—how things were different after your topic
Process Paper & Annotated Bibliography Pages Guess what goes on these pages Just the Documents, No bells & whistles Use scribd.com to show documents Also have downloadable versions
Feedback Blog How I give you feedback “Hide” for the History Fair
Navigation 3 Ways to Navigate/Experience Navigation Menu Linearly— “Back to”, “Thesis” and “Next to” At Bottom of Each Page Hyperlinked to Previous page & Next page Actual links should name pages going to Hyperlinks in text Hyperlink key words from thesis statement to respective pages
DOs Bulleted Text Use quotes (cite them) Include Relevant & Appropriate Multimedia Pictures Video Clips (45 seconds max) Audio Clips (45 seconds max)
DON’Ts Long Blocks of Text Be Razzly-Dazzly Clutter Compromise substance for show
Excellent Weebly History Fair Websites http://56584096.nhd.weebly.com http://38087240.nhd.weebly.com http://28322011.nhd.weebly.com Last Year’s FoA History Fair Websites http://foawebsiteproject.weebly.com/