Instructor Notes

If you are an instructor using FrontPage 2002: A Guide for Educators and Trainers in a workshop or course on instructional web development, we have a few suggestions for helping your students get the most out of it. 

One key point is that students are eager to start their websites right away. Although we believe that most of them are likely to benefit from the analysis and design steps discussed in Part 1 of this book, it is easy to lose their attention if we do not allow them to use the computers right away. 

One approach is to interweave Parts 1 and 2 as you proceed through the workshop: working on analyzing, designing, and planning the sites as they learn the mechanics of producing them with Microsoft FrontPage 2002. What this means is alternating between learning how to apply the Web to instructional problems, switching to FrontPage to learn how to produce specific pages and use key features, and then going back to the higher level work. 

We usually start with an overview of the entire process, followed quickly by time on the computers while starting a website. The distinction between editing individual web pages and creating and working on an entire site is crucial in FrontPage, so it is useful to deal with it early.