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Simple homepage for myself or the world
120 mins All
How to create well recognised webpage in two hours?
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Objective / Aims
Obtaining basic basic skills of creating and maintaining a webpage has become a must nowadays. After the workshop participants: • Will be able to formulate goals of maintaining a homepage. • Will be able to structure information in a way convenient for a reader and efficient to deliver a
message. • Will be able to evaluate own skills and formulate needs for further skill development.
Materials/Apps
• Big sheets of paper and markers for group work. • Apps, Software, platforms used: Any internet browser software. Access to existing personal e-mail account.
Space
Space should be prepared for group and individual work. Computer class would be convenient or alternatively personal computer with internet connection for every participant. Big screen for projecting in front of the group.
ANALOGICAL PART. STEP BY STEP. 1st part (15 min)
1. The first activity in this part of the workshop is to get to know participants and their experiences. 2. Sharing user experiences as internet browsers and analysing good/poor websites. Discuss and write down on paper, whiteboard or display on screen. Speak with the group about personal good/bad experiences from browsing internet resources and seeking information. Display examples from participants, if possible, discuss those.
Possible suggestions:
Small survey could be prepared in advance and made e.g. http://padlet.com You can use presentation material with comments for a trainer that is provided in addition to this document. See documents homepage-wp-how-its-madekey.pdf , shomepage-wp-how-its-made.key , homepage-wp-how-its-made.pptx
ANALOGICAL PART. STEP BY STEP. 2nd part (15 min)
Carry our group discussion about different purposes of webpages; informative, sales, photo archive, interest groups, discussions, etc. (5 min).
Encourage individual analysis “Why do I need a homepage?” (5 min). Goal - to emphasise that good homepage must serve the purpose and consequently has to be constructed accordingly.
DIGITAL PART. STEP BY STEP. 1ST PART (15 min)
Introducing wordpress.com as one of tools for making a homepage free of charge
Wordpress is a platform that over years has been developed as sophisticated tool for creating websites. It has vast offers for free of charge options and provides even more possibilities for upgrades of the same your free website if you decide so.
Goal of this session is to prepare participants for practical creation of their website. It might be worth presenting this information on flip-chart or whiteboard, using sticky notes or in other “analog” ways and leave the result accessible. In that way trainer can refer to it when presenting on screen on-line Wordpress page.
Essential aspects - explain those and ask participants to write down answers for themselves. • Purpose of the homepage. • Visibility settings (personal, visible to limited group, public) • Interaction level with readers (allow comments or not) • Presentation style. Huge number of pre-defined ready to use and adjustable layouts is offered; photo galleries, just text pages, strictly structured layouts and everything in between (show examples on screen) • Organisation of the page; information can be organised in two ways (combined or separately) - Pages and Posts. Each has its own characteristics and behaviour. Pagescan be structured in a hierarchy and provide a fixed “backbone” of the website. Postscan be assigned Categories, Tags, Dates. Posts can be searchable by category. Internal links between Pages and Posts are convenient. • Structure of information inside Pagesand Postsis based on so called Blocks. Blocks are like small “islands” that can be moved easily and carry either text or media (pictures, videos). Ask the group some re-cap questions to make sure everyone is ready for individual work.
DIGITAL PART. STEP BY STEP. 2nd PART (40 min)
Create your website! Following steps are shown as screenshots in a presentation document homepage-wp-how-itsmade.ppt (as well as .pdf and .key formats) Steps every participant has to complete: 1. Create your account in Wordress system. E-mail confirmation will be asked. 2. Give a name to the website and decide about the plan - free or paid. (Free suggested) 3. Publish first article. 4. Configure site behaviour in Settings. 5. Choose the look. 6. Define Categories, Tags for Posts, learn about hierarchy of pages.
DIGITAL PART. STEP BY STEP. 3rd PART (20 min)
Presentation of websites and Q/A session. Ask volunteers to present their work and discuss it for the benefit to the whole group.
Evaluation of the activity / Result (10 min)
Saving your Document and summary of the workshop.
Discuss what have participants learned, what will they use in their everyday work.
