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If you can copy and paste text in Microsoft Word and files in Windows Explorer, you have all the skills needed to create your own Internet webpages for your class! Bring in a list of Internet links, reading passages, vocabulary lists, and listening exercises (mp3’s) or other materials, and by the end of the workshop, you’ll have your own four webpage mini-website operating on-line!
In the workshop you will learn the basics of how webpages operate on the Internet. Then with simple “cut-n-paste” webpage creation, you will use the materials you bring in and the templates provided to create your own mini-website off-line. All the work will be done in NotePad, the low-tech text editor found on all Windows computers. In the last part of the workshop, you will upload your webpages to the Internet in your very own “sandbox” at moodle.vcc.ca. Your students will have on-line access as soon as you request the sandbox be converted to an operational class website.
Workshop leader John Keith is a long-time ESL instructor at Vancouver Community College and at BCIT. He has created and taught a number of blended on-line and face-to-face courses for BCIT and developed the On-line Fluency Assessments applications and the Tech Writer's Blog. In 2006, he was nominated for BCIT's Employee Excellence Award: Innovative Teaching with Technology. John has his own consulting company and maintains a host of English resources at www.johnkeithcommunications.com