To Make:
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Idea evolves. Do sanity
check. Do you want to spend many hours at your computer?? Minimize
your gardening and outdoor fun activities? (You'll do this quicker than
we did because you've got this nifty model to copy!) Call in
an aide or volunteer and sweet talk them into helping you!
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Design main page. We used
Netscape Navigator Gold. The letter links were put in a long table
to keep spacing even. RECIPE TABLE 1
Table 1.
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Design letter page template.
Get page exactly as you wish. Test. Replicate a few.
Test again. When all is just as you wish, copy template for all pages
in project. Save a blank copy of template. This avoids lots
of unnecessary work later on. (Trust Us J
!). On our page we choose to make it hard on ourselves and not put
title line of each page into a table. We used invisible images as
spacers to push our icons to the right and hold them there, avoiding
a vertical scroll bar.
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Design rubric or other assessment
for your specific project. Set size limits and decide how many images
you'll have for each letter. Each page could be complete with one
or two great images. Alternately you could change the images available
to viewers by uploading replacement images at regular intervals.
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Students create submissions and
evaluate their work. Invite submissions via e-mail or from home if
you wish.
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Scan/download images. Compress
images with websaver to save space and decrease loading time. Insert
in template.
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Record sound bites.
We limited our sound bites to just a few words because we're not capable
of doing a continuous feed and the load time became prohibitively long.
We recorded in groups of three to minimize distractions, yet provided an
opportunity for peer feedback and evaluation. Short recording sessions
were important because kids needed intense concentration and tired easily.
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Sound links are embedded so that
they load immediately. Be sure to go to view and page source to check
out our codes. The letter sound you hear when the page open has the
following code commands: AUTOSTART=TRUE LOOP=FALSE. They allow the
sound to open and play without the viewer doing anything. The sound
bites you click on have source code like this: AUTOSTART=FALSE LOOP=FALSE.
Loop means that is will continually replay the sound bite.
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Work two months. Publish
when ready. Enjoy!
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