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Creating A Web Site for Your Classroom
Many friends, teachers and others
have asked me:
How did you build your web pages? How do I do this or
that? Is it hard to do?
Here's how it all began...
In 1998, I took a five-week Front Page course through our school
district for my GBE evaluation.
My husband also bought me a book called
Front Page Simplified. I also searched the internet for graphics,
ideas and
tutorials. Basically, I wanted a site that would enable my student's
parents to be
informed of activities going on in our classroom.
So, I began the task of creating my web site...Mrs. LaBoon's
Kindergarten Class
My suggestions:
1. Begin small. Put your
classroom's basic information-school calendar, daily schedule, homework, etc.
2. There are many wonderful web
sites for school related graphics.
My very favorite graphics are from
Graphic Garden. The
artist is Helena (who is from Norway)
She has become a
wonderful friend to me over the past few years.
3. If you purchase graphics, I
strongly
suggest that you use codes that
protect others from downloading your graphics. You may obtain
the
"No Right Click", "Disable IE Toolbar" and
"No Drag" scripts at Dynamic
Drive.
4. Always give credit to the
graphic artists for their work by providing a logo with a link to their website.
5. If you want to use music in
the background, go to midi sites, right click
and "save
target as" and put it in a folder called C/My
Documents/Midi Music.
6. Always save your work
on floppy or CD. My computer has crashed twice in
the past five years and I lost everything....Since then I have learned to save everything.
When I decided to get my own domain, I decided to use Go
Daddy.Com for my hosting provider.
Many thanks to Jessica Meacham for her advice and help!
Visit her wonderful website at
http://www.jmeacham.com/
I hope these tips have helped you and I will try to add more
later.
In the meantime, check out some of these links for ideas on
creating your web site.
I truly enjoy working on my web site! I have received
many emails from teachers, parents and educators
who have been
inspired by their visits.
It make all my hard work worthwhile when I know someone has been blessed by my "little corner of the web".
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