Website Assignment

The major required assignment for this course is an instructional website. An instructional website is one that is designed to teach something (or to assist in the teaching of something). It could be on a subject that you are teaching in your classes or one that you are interested in professionally or personally. It may stand alone, so that learners use it on their own to learn the material. Or it could be a supplement to a more traditional class.

In this workshop there are four steps to creating this website:

1. Proposal: This is a short (1/2 to 1 page) description of the site you want to create and its place in your teaching plans. The proposal is meant to ensure that we are on the same page with the project.
2. Analysis: This is a slightly longer assignment (size will vary somewhat depending on your project) which outlines the goals, audience, and context of your site. See the book for more information.
3. Design: This assignment is meant to ensure that you consider some key issues in planning and designing your instructional website. These are also discussed in the book as well.
4. Development: This is the step where you take your ideas and turn them into a website consisting of a series of web pages with their associated graphics and so on, produced using Microsoft FrontPage 2002 (or 2000). Although there are a series of assignments for this workshop that will get you to use many features of FrontPage and the Web, the only one that you are required to submit to me is the final instructional website. The others are voluntary. Your final site, however, should include most of the characteristics mentioned in the various assignments.

Submitting Your Site

How do you send your site to me? There are basically two ways:

1. The best way is to publish your site to the Web and send me the URL. To do this, you need to have space available on a Web server, preferably one running the FrontPage Server Extensions. More information about hosting and publishing a site is available.
2. If the preferred way is not available to you, you can send the site to me to review and publish temporarily to the workshop website. To do this successfully, you MUST zip the entire folder that contains your site and send it as a unit. More information about how to zip files and folders is available.

Information about submitting assignments