Writing Local Home Page

Session 6

Objectives

1. Understand how HyperText Mark-up Language (HTML) defines hypertext links.
2. Create multiple HTML pages in the same folder that contain links to each other.
3. Create links from their HTML pages to (external) images in the same folder as their HTML pages.
4. Include in-line images on their HTML pages for images in the same folder as their HTML pages.

Keywords / Concepts

1. local link
2. inline image

Prerequisites

1. Know and understand HyperText Mark-up Language (HTML)
2. Be able to use an editor to write an HTML document
3. Have a good sense of WWW page design

Student Preparation

• The students need to bring to class a sketch of their classroom computer home page or a home outline page for their project.
• Students should bring to class 2 text files that have been formatted with HTML.

Lesson Plan

• Activity
• Tutorial
• Discussion
• Review

Homework

Continue developing a folder of linked pages on your project. You can start adding sections that describe the project goals and activities, materials to use to introduce the students to the project, a page of related resources, and assessment ideas for evaluating the project.

References

1. Writing HTML
2. A Beginner's Guide to HTML (NCSA)

Evaluation