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P.L. Duffy Resource Centre Trinity College http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/

Rosemary Horton Teacher Librarian

Reducing The Traffic Jam...

Finding a Way ... with A Road Map

The Pile to a Catalogue; the Net to a Plan

We wouldn't give them just a pile of books. We give them a catalogue.
We need to save them some time

Steps on a Journey
  Searching
Finding Sites
  Search Engines
  Recommendations
  Reading Help
  Trying It Out

How to Search the Internet: Searching and Finding

Search Engines

 
  Education Sites
  Recommendations
  Exploring
  Happenstance
  Listservs

Education

 
  Reviews
  Searching: Reviews
  Subject Journals/magazines
  Subject Websites

Educational Journals

English Teaching

  Serendipity
  Just Looking
  Finding Something Else

 
  Choosing
  Evaluating Web Pages
  Accuracy,
  Authority, Reliability
  Objectivity,
  Currency
  Coverage
  Appropriate
  Right Level

Evaluating Web Sites

  Organising
  Planning
  Design
  Priorities

Web Page Design

  Using Front Page
  Structure

    File

      New .web

      Choose a type

    File

      New .Page

    Repeat for a number of files

    File name

      Should be short, lower case

    Page Title

      Change to proper title

  Save as
  Save in proper directory

    File

      New .Folder

    Either Cut..and then Paste

      either File Cut/ File Paste

      or Scissors/ pages on Menu bar

      or right click Cut/Paste

    Or Drag (hold down left mouse,
    let go when in right place)

  Folders View
  Repeat for number of Folders
  Move files into appropriate folders
  Navigation
  Remember each title or button will not show
until added in navigation view.

    Navigation View

      Index file will be in middle of screen

    Plan a structure

    Drag files where you want them

    Shared borders

      Choose top, sides, bottom.

  Format

    Navigation bar

    Choose vertical, horizontal, text or buttons

    Page Banner

      Choose text or image

  Insert
  Themes

    Page View

      Format

        Theme

          Choose theme

            Apply to all web

            or Selected folders or files

You can change themes for all or some files or folders by selecting in folder view.

  
  Creating Links
Three Ways

    Open Internet Explorer

    Conduct search for appropriate page

      Three methods of adding links

        Dragging

          Make IE small

          Drag blue url from address line in IE

          The title of the page will be entered and will be a link

        .

    Select name

    Click on blue hyperlink.

    Create Hyperlink box will open

    Click on blue world

    You will be taken to IE.(if empty screen hit back button)

    Click on FrontPage or Alt Tab back

    Your text will now be a link.

  Type in appropriate title on FrontPage page

    Click on blue hyperlink

    Create Hyperlink box will open

    Click on blue world

    You will be taken to IE.(if empty screen hit back button

    Click on FrontPage or Alt Tab back

    The url will be on the page.

    Type title anywhere in the middle of the url

    Delete text you don't need.

    You will now have a link.

  Enter link straight onto page
  Presenting
  Tables

    Click on Table on Menu bar, choosing
    number of rows and columns

    Click inside table

    Right click. Choose Table Properties
  Select alignment (centre)
  and width (90% not pixels)
  Borders size (1) if you want to see them
 
  Font

    Menu Bar

      Style

      Font

      Size

    Format

      Font

      Style

      Size
 
  Pictures

    Menu Bar

      Insert Picture

      Clip art, from browser or file

    Insert Picture

    Clip art, from browser or file

  Insert
 
  Other components

    Insert

      Select appropriate component

  
  Evaluating

  Is it used?
  How is it used?
  How can you make it faster?
  How can you make it easier to navigate?
  How do you keep up-to-date?