Return-Path: <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g3HCSFu25849; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 08:28:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 08:28:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <F1352dCfkcowWXOfwnq00006ecd@hotmail.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Eric Appleton" <eric_appleton@hotmail.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2401] Re: Teachers and Web Publishing X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 1811 Lines: 40 Michael, Thanks for your comments. >have other's accessed and used your sites?< As far as I can tell, our web sites are mostly used by my current students. A few former students chcek the site to see what we are up. We also use a listserv (hosted by http://www.literacytent.org - Check them out!) so many of my former students can be connected to what we are doing in the lab. And other teachers have had their students look at out virtual visit pages, but I don't think we have had too many visitors beyond that. >has the >experience of putting your ideas online made you think about other, >less textual, ways of conveying ideas? This is a really hard question. I didn't want to alienate students who read at a lower level, but in the practice, it's very difficult. Hopefully, you can give clues about what information and the way it is organized by using pictures, color, etc. but when you want to update a web site every day, what you end up doing is typing messages to your audience. I try to write in clear, simple language, but then I have my assumptions about what is clear and simple. >A nuts and bolts question--Jeff asked about learning HTML, have you/ >do you use some of the excellent authoring tools now available that >make knowledge of html less important. I have used HTML primarily (I like HTML-kit, a free program that gives you a lot help in writing code), and I have used Netscape Composer (part of Netscape Navigator) and MSWord with my students. I like to stick with free software (and MSOffice, because we own it). If you are interested in learning HTML, check out http://www.htmlgoodies.com or http://www.w3schools.com. Eric _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
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