Welcome to the creation of your own webpage as a project on Canadian History for grade 5 Social Studies.
Below you will find a list of links that will assist you in making this project happen. If you have links you would like to add, please forward them to me.
The final project for the Canadian History unit will be in the form of a webpage. Students will be using Netscape Composer as an authoring tool to make these webpages. We must make sure all students have access to their personal folders in which they will be saving their work.
1. Get students to create a new folder in their account by going to the At Ease screen. Make sure the blue folder is in the front. Go FILE - NEW FOLDER and a box will appear. Type in "Canadian History" then click on New Folder. Now there should be a folder named Canadian History on your blue file.
2. To access Netscape Composer, click on the Netscape icon in your pink applications file on your At Ease screen.
3. Go to FILE - NEW - BLANK PAGE
A blank page will appear with a set of tools running across the top. This program works like a word processing program
such as Apple Works but with a few differences.
4. Save this page by going to FILE - SAVE AS
A box will appear. At the top of this box is a heading that should have the user account name. Choose from that list the
folder titled Canadian History and click twice until that name appears in that box. The first page to this project is to be saved as "index.html". This is case sensitive and there must be no spaces between the letters.
5. To change the background color.Go to FORMAT - PAGE PROPERTIES. A box will appear with the middle tab entitiled "colors and background". Click on the 2nd radio button which gives you "Use custom colors". Click in the box beside the word "Background". Go into the crayon picker which is the 2nd icon on the left side in the box. Then chose the color you wish to have for your background.Select ok to exit both boxex.
6. To "borrow" an image from the internet. Find an image off the internet that you wish to import into your folder. Once
you've found this image, click your mouse directly on the desired image and hold the click down until a box appears.
Choose "Save this image as" and another box will appear asking you what you would like to save it as and where. Keep the same extension that appears (.gif or .jpg). You can choose to modify the name of the image so that you can recognize it in your folder. If you choose to change the name, remember not to use capital letter nor leave any spaces. Make sure you save it in your Canadian History folder.
7. To insert an image onto your webpage. In Composer, go into INSERT on the menu at the top of your page and select
IMAGE. A box will appear asking you what image you would like to insert it and where it is. Click on the CHOOSE FILE.
Now you need to tell the program where your image is. Direct it by selecting your Canadian History folder.
8. Using tables. In Composer, you will soon find out that using table (sometimes invisible ones) will be very helpful,
especially to line 3 things up on a page. To insert a table, select INSERT from the top menu and go to TABLE -TABLE. A
box will appear asking you how many rows and columns you require. Within this same box, you can choose the alignment
of the box and the percentage of the window you wish your box to fill. You can also control equal column width and
table/cell background color.
9. Creating links. In webpage design, you can creat 2 kinds of links; to sites directly on the web and to other pages that you create on composer. You create a link by typing in what it is you want to become an active link on your page and then you select INSERT form the top menu and select LINK. A format box will appear. You go to the section called Link to.... Here you insert either a URL if you want to creat a link to a website on the net or you can type in the name of the page you created that you would like it to link to.
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