2. Professionally important
• Distinguish personal use from professional
use.
• Maintaining a simple website for professional
purposes should be thought of as a norm.
• It’s a kind of CV or portfolio.
• It’s a resource to support your teaching.
• It will help you get a job.
3. In your teaching …
• Running a website will enhance your ICT
Capability
• You can work with your students, show them a
lead, instead of keeping up
• There’s several ways to do it and it can be
quite easy
4. Key concept
CLIENT SERVER
My Computer
http://teach2.newport.ac.uk
Web files stored and
Web files copied here and
edited locally.
stored remotely.
When browsing the web
Files are SERVED to a CLIENT.
My Computer is a CLIENT
LOCAL REMOTE
5. Important detail
• The first web page in your website should be
named ‘index.htm’ or ‘index.html’*
• Thus only the web address itself is needed to
get started. The server automatically looks for
a page called ‘index.htm’:
• http://teach-ict.com
• http://teach-ict.com/whatsnew.htm
• http://teach-ict.com/contributors/
• http://teach-ict.com/contributors/clare_belshaw.htm
* Other names used by web servers: default,htm; home.htm
6. Tasks
• Make a conscious decision about a folder
location in My Document where you will store
and edit your web files.
• Complete the Red Fox task – files available on
Moodle in a Zip file.
7. Step 1:
• Deconstruct the text file using Notepad: split
into four separate files containing:
• text for title page;
• text for page 1;
• text for page 2;
• text for page 3.
8. Step 2:
• Construct a basic HTML webpage template
using Notepad.
• Save page(s) with the file extension HTM or
HTML. NOTE: do not use spaces in file names
for web use.
• Add your text elements created in Step 1.
• Iteratively load and reload your text files into a
browser
9. Directed Study
by w/b 27th February
(1) Complete Red Fox exercise. 100% is
required!
(a) create separate pages
(b) link them
(2) Ensure all coursework tasks are completed.
Write text for each page/coursework
element as per the assignment brief
10. Text for portfolio web pages
The home page will provide a list of links to each of the coursework tasks.
Each coursework task will be presented on its own page with the following
elements:
A clear title
Heading: How the resource was constructed:
How it was made;
How it is operated;
Heading: Its value for learning and teaching:
What value could learners get from it?
What value could a teacher get from it?
Heading: Download file:
Link to the file for download;
Describe the download file format (e.g. Zip, Docx);
Relevant instructions/guidance for the user.
11. Navigation
• How will the user get to a particular page?
• How will the user return to the home page?
12. Some information
(for use w/b 27th Feb)
• To look at your website use:
http://teach2.newport.ac.uk/10000001
• HTTP = Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• To manage your website use:
ftp://teach2.newport.ac.uk
• FTP = File Transfer Protocol
• To login always use NET10000001
