Making Web Pages - Part 4
(by Mark Warner)

How can teachers organize web page making in their classrooms?

The organization of this work will obviously depend on how you choose to make your web pages, how many children are going to be involved and the number of resources in your school.

Some schools have their own networks which are connected to the Internet. For example, at Ambleside, all children have the opportunity to make web pages:

• Infants dictate their work to the teachers / older children who type it out and make the pages with the children.

• All children from year 3 upwards make their own web pages (which are displayed on the school's network, and some are put onto the web version).

• Older children take responsibility for entire sections of the site, designing it, creating it, publishing it and promoting it. The ICT coordinator says that this teaches them how a web company works.

This work also links with the UK National Literacy Strategy, with children thinking about audience, pace, detail, use of headings / subheadings etc. The content of the pages generally comes from Literacy Hour activities, and if a child produces a promising piece of work, they are encouraged to continue it using the web creation software, so that by the end of the lesson (if finished), it can be put onto the network.

Other methods of organization include:

• Making web pages during a lunch-time or after-school computer / Internet club.

• Composing texts on a word processor, which the teacher can convert into a web page and publish for the children.

• Whole classes can also work together to create their own class web pages. These can be typed in by small groups of children at spare moments during the day.

SAFETY - Obviously, the safety rules which were referred to in the "Using Email" section apply when the children are making web pages.

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