Let's look at Netscape Composer, a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML Editor.

     Touch each button with your cursor and you will notice that a pop-up window appears that tells you what that button does. On the middle row you will find buttons that allow you to adjust text height, font, and style. On the bottom row there are buttons to insert links, images, tables, as well as preview your work and publish it

     Now that you have a sense of HTML from the previous exercise and have seen Netscape's Composer, let's create a Web page for your class. First, you need to decide what you want to accomplish. You have had experience planning classroom activities - the Web page activity planning stage is not that different.

     The page could be the activity or part of an activity. Here are some guided questions to help you frame the page for a classroom activity.

• What is the goal of your activity?
  
  
• What are your student performance objectives? This is what you want the students to accomplish, in terms of observable behaviors.
  
  
• What content and technology standards are you addressing?
  
  
• What is the activity - actual method? This serves as the outline for your Web page.
  
  
• What graphics will illustrate the content? Do you need permission to copy them?
  
  
• From this activity and page, how will you assess the student's learning?
  
  
• How will you evaluate the Web page's success? How do you measure success? Remember activities can be changed for the next time, and Web pages are easily edited with Netscape Composer.

     Now that you have your plan for your activity, let's focus on physically building the Web page.

• How many Web pages will you need?
  
  
• What content will be on the primary page and the secondary pages? The primary page is the very first page that the students will view. Based on the length of your activity and for the sake of good organization, you may break up the first page and create secondary pages. These are pages that are linked from the first or primary page.
  
  
• What external Web addresses will you place on the Web page(s)?
  
  
• How will graphics be used? Informational? Fun? As links?
  
  
• Do you want an e-mail link on your page?

     Create something simple - add a title, an image, two links, a paragraph with directions for your students about each link, and an e-mail link. Do you need a second page? Save the file by opening up the File window and choosing Save. You do not need to add .htm or .html as an ending. The program does it for you. You can save it on a floppy disk or on the hard drive. The graphic file that you use on the Web page should be saved to the same floppy or directory/folder as your Web document.

     In Section 3: Keeping Kids Safe on the Internet you learned to grab a graphic. Grab the WOW logo and place it on your Web page. Make this graphic a link to the U S WEST WOW Web site.

     To view your page, select the Preview button. This will open the page in the browser. If you have not saved the page, you will be asked to save it here. To open the page in the browser, select File | Open Page. Locate the HTML file and graphics, select the Web file, and select Open, twice.

     Once you have your content, links, and graphics in place, you can then add pizzazz - color, background, maybe animated graphics (watch copyright).

     When you were working with HTML in the previous exercise, you had an opportunity to place a title in the Header of the page. To do this in Composer, select Format in the menu bar and then select Page Color and Properties. Here you are able to enter a title, your name (author), and add a description.

     For additional help with this activity, go to WOW Web Page Development Tutorial - www.uswestwow.org/nwow/neducation/
webpgtutorial/nwebpgdev.html

     Once you have a page for a classroom activity, have your colleagues review it. After you have tested it and you feel that it works, you can place it on any computer and let your students use it. You can also carry it to your building technology coordinator and ask him or her to place it on the school district's Web server. There are tools that you can use to electronically publish the page(s) to a Web server, so you can make updates as you need and re-send your work to the server.