You did a great job setting up the basic frame for your web sites in class today. As far as I could tell - by the end of class - most of you had the overall structure of your site set up (a template + links). That is pretty impressive considering that for most of you this was your first experience using Front Page. As I pointed out in class, there are many ways to produce a web page - and the approach we took using tables was kind of "quick and dirty" in that it does not involve the kind of precision that other approaches have. At the same time it gave you a feel for how to use the program and that is worth something.
I will be reading the text for your essay over the weekend and will send you comments in your course account. Next week you will be giving presentations to your classmates on your sites. These presentations are going to be informal - and for the purpose of getting a feel for the visual impression of your site. Bring what you have so far on your jump drive, and you will put your work up on the LCD projector as you talk. You should come to class prepared to do the following.
1. Talk about why/how you chose your topic + state your research question.
2. Discuss your research process - where / how you got your information
3. Your writing process (how you put together your essay- for example - you might talk about whether/how you wrote your site in sections, how you used the wikipedia project, any places you got stuck, how useful the feedback from classmates was at various points in the process)
4. Give us a walk through of your site + sum up what you do at each link/section and how it connects to your research question. Make sure to offer a clear answer to your research question.
5. Describe any problems you encounterd
6. Discuss how creating this project was different from composing a "written" essay.
Your Draft for your project is due Wednesday, April 23 at the end of class (on a CD). I will return your drafts with comments by April 28.
You are doing a great job so far and I am looking forward to your presentations.
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