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"Internet Photo Essays " Project

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Session 7: Web Publishing, Part II

Recommended time
Minimum 90 minutes, maximum two hours

Goal for the session
Practice Web development skills

Outcomes
Web pages

Part 1: Read-Aloud

What is it?
Suggested reading is the sixth chapter of Witnesses to Freedom: Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights, by Belinda Rochelle.

Suggested questions

  • Why do you think that whites and African Americans did the freedom rides together? How might this have made things easier, or harder, than having African Americans do the rides on their own?
  • What do you think Diane Nash means when she says, "Ending discrimination is not only a struggle to change laws. Internal liberation is just as important."
  • Can you think of a situation in your school, your neighborhood or somewhere else in your community in which people from different groups have had to cooperate to achieve a common goal? What benefits came from the cooperation? What made the situation difficult?

Part 2: Continue Building Web Pages for Photo Essay

Part 3: Web Site Checklist

What is it?
Create a list of quality attributes for the photo essay Web site. Use the list to improve the style, function and navigation of the Web pages.

Suggested resources

  • Project-Based Learning Checklists
    This checklist is for multimedia presentations, but can be customized for Web site development. From the South Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium.

  • WWWCyberGuide Rating for Web Site Design
    Easy-to-use form developed by Karen McLachlan, a teacher at East Knox High School in Ohio.

  • Yale University Web Style Manual
    A comprehensive style guide used by professional Web developers.

Part 4: Email Journals

What is it?
Work on email journals, as described in Session 1, Part 5.

Part 5: Personal Reading

What is it?
Participants select books or other material to read silently for at least 10 minutes.

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