HTML EXERCISES

Activity 9. Creating a webpage using HTML
Follow the steps given pg 65-pg 69

Worksheet 8.2.3 What does it do?
Answer the given questions

QUESTIONS
Answer the questions and print out the responses.

Activity 10: looking at school websites.
Follow steps 1-6

FINDING OUT
More sites
www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
www.cwru.edu/help/introHTML/toc.html (offers a quick guide to tags used with HTML)

THE CULTURAL SHOE BOX

WE HAVE BEEN PARTNERED WITH PALESTINE
for our cultural shoe box.

Let us collect Kenyan stuff and place it in our cultural shoe box.

We shall send the box to palestine and they will send their to us.

Let us celebrate Kenya the Kenyan Way.

Check the link
http://foro.iearn.org/webx?230@@.1eb11080

The details are as follows
Name of the project
Exchanging packages

Brief one- sentence description of project:
schools from the glob exchange packages that promote our understanding about each other

Full description of project:
the idea starts with two schools from different countries exchange package that is can contain anything, letters, postcards, or any information. It also could have any tangible items such as traditional items and so. After receiving and opening the package, participants continue communicating and answering each others questions. They can write their reflection on the topic and express and further thoughts. The idea is to have something tangible and relating technology to real live. It is to have something real between your hands and you know and you then reflect upon these feelings and express them in a dairy or journal form that you can share with everyone.

Age of the participants: 12-17

Time table for the current school year:
The whole year

Possible project/classroom activity..
The first step is collecting the box all together.
1- Students work individually to write letters introducing themselves.
2- Students work in groups to design post cards or posters about topics that matters to them such about their country, their school…etc
3- Students work in groups to create a box that will contain the things they have read.
4- Students share personal items that matters to them and would love others to know about them and write a bout these things.
5- Students send the box.

The second step of receiving the box
1- The students open the box.
2- They have time to read the letters send by the other students
3- They explore the things in the box
4- They write the things they liked about the box and their questions.

The third stage will be in the forum
1- The students write their reflection as a sort of journal.
2- They can also respond to some letters send from the package they received.
3- They answer the questions of others about their package.
4- They post their reflection, questions and surprises in a forum
5- They exchange experience and thoughts of their work

Expected outcomes/ products
There are different outcomes of this project most of all
1- Students will have a tangible items that have been send to them from another country which will help them to understand others cultures, lives..etc
2- Students will also write letters and design post cards
3- Students will make PowerPoint presentations about their school, villages, family and send it in the box
4- Students will also will have an exhibition to show the rest of the schools about their work

Projects contribution to others and the planet

I always like others to know about my country so, sending a box which contains these things was the idea of American teacher from MA and I worked with her and we did receive their box and they did receive our box. It opens our eyes about how little others know about area and we also got to see some adorable stuff that our dear friends from America sent to us. So, why not exchange items and be able to touch them and examine them in close and then go and talk about it. It enriches us in many ways and make the world seems like really a small village where everyone know each other.

Project languages
English

Curriculum area
Writing and reading

Asmaa Al beriki and Muna Al Rashidi
Email
Asmaa, islam4all3@hotmail.com
Muna Ashwaq7@hotmail.com

IEARN Forum,,
My identity, your identity forum/cultural package

ACTIVITY 7 – Designing a home page

Make it happen


You are going to produce the home page of your personal website.

A home page is the first page that someone who accesses your website will see.

Consider the following questions:
• What information would you put on your home page?

• How might you find out what should be included on a home page?

• What would your friends expect to see on your home page?

1) On paper, plan a design for your home page. For your draft design simply arrange named boxes on the page.

2) Play around with the designs until you decide on a final arrangement. Copy out neatly your final home page design.

Theme December - Holidays and Festivals

1) What is the festival called?
2) Which culture celebrates this festival?
3) What does this festival celebrate?
4) Why did this festival start?
5) When did this festival start being celebrated? On which day(s) is it celebrated?
6) How do people celebrate this festival? What do they do? Describe the festival in detail and include at least five details.
7) How long does the festival last?
8)What do people eat during this festival?
9) Who do people celebrate with during this festival?
10) Find a picture that represents this festival and attach it to your message.
11) Anything else you would like to add about your festival.
12) Remember, your posting must be in your own words. If you get information from a website you must list the source of your information.

For presentation upload your work in the link

http://foro.iearn.org/webx?230@@.1eb0f7d7
Titled Diversity in a Kenyan Classroom

Please keep a copy of the posting for your web pages entries.

ACTIVITY 8: Looking at HTML

In this activity you will discover how you can view the source code (i.e. the set of instructions used to produce the website)
1. Log onto the internet and type in the following website: www.nelsonthornes.com

This is the website of the publisher for this book.
2. Rather than look at the content of the site. We are going to look at this HTML cod used to produce the website.
To do this, position the cursor anywhere on the webpage.

Right Click the mouse button.



Select View Source by clicking on it, using the left mouse button.

A window appears with code on it.
As you will see, it is very difficult to make sense of the HTML code, but there are some easy ways to create WebPages and websites.


How to create a website using HTML

There are 2 steps of creating a website using HTML
1. Use a program called an Editor or a word-processing package to produce your text with HTML.
2. Put the pages on a web-server, which is a computer with a permanent connection on the internet.
Simple HTML code
Here is simple section of HTML

This a simple document

This is a sample paragraph

The tags are the words that are enclosed between < and > signs. They are HTML instructions and they tell the computer how to display or format the text.

Look at the sample code. We are now going to look at what each tag does.

and tells the computer that we are creating an HTML document

The tag tells the computer that the computer is starting and tells the computer that the document has ended.

The tags tell the document that you want the text between the tags to be shown as title. The reason fro the difference in the two tags is that the first one tells the computer where to start the title and the second one tells it where the title ends.

and

says that you want to text to be a heading of type h1. There are other headings, h2, h3, etc. to choose from. Headings coded h1 are larger in size compared with h2 headings and so on.

The tags

and

mean start and end a new paragraph. A break of approximately two lines deep is inserted between paragraphs.

Activity 5:Investigating the features of websites

Websites often contain a number of elements. When you design and create your own websites, you too can include different elements.
In this Activity, you will look at the home page (i.e. the first page you come to) of an unofficial website about the footballer David Beckham.
The website address for this is: www.paulsworld.co.uk or www.paulsworld.org.uk


Look carefully at the home page of this site. Write down the names of as many elements on the home page as you can spot. For each of these elements, breifly describe why they have been included.

THEME NOVEMBER - traditional music and dance

Post about music in their respective cultures. Each posting will answer the questions below.

1) Which culture does this music represent?
2) Why did you choose to write about this type of music?
a) Do you like it? How does it make you feel when you listen to it?
b) When and by whom were you first introduced to this type of music?
3) What is the history behind the music, meaning how did it originate and how did it become popular?
4) Who likes this type of music? Is there a particular gender, ethnicity, race, or age group which listens to this type of music more than another?
5) Where (in what setting) do people tend to listen to this type of music?
6) Who are some famous people who sing or play instruments to this type of music?
a) Now, tell us in detail about one famous musician from your culture who plays this kind of music.
b) Post a picture of this famous musician.
c) Add a link to a website so students can read more about these famous musicians or type of music and listen to the music.
7) What kind of musical instruments or music technology is used in making this music? Please post a picture of the instrument.
8)Is there any particular dance which people do to this kind of music?
9) Anything else you feel is important to share about this music or dance?

The theme of October - Famous Landmarks, Historical Buildings & Monuments

You are supposed to answer the following questions. The information will be posted on the forum as well as saved on a folder as a resource for your website

1) What are some of the historical landmarks or a famous place in your city or country?
2) Choose one or two historical landmarks or famous places to discuss in this posting and identify its name.
3) Where is this historical landmark or famous place located?
4) What is the significance or story behind this historical landmark or famous place? Why was it created?
5) When was the historical landmark or famous place built?
6) Who built or paid for the historical landmark or famous place? Where did it come from?
7) What material is the historical landmark or famous place made of? (i.e. marble, cement)
8) Describe in detail the way the historical landmark or famous place looks.
9) Discuss any renovation, if any that has been completed on the historical landmark or famous place.
10) List three words that best describes this historical landmark or famous place.
11) Attach a picture of the historical landmark or famous place or a link to a website where a picture can be seen or more detailed information about the historical landmark can be found.

Our Project FOCUS

The following will be the focus of our projects.
The months are indicators on where to log in the IEARN forum and upload your information. We will be in
Group 6
http://foro.iearn.org/webx/.1eaf1e21/

In this group click on the months.

Once on the months click The diversity in a Kenyan Classroom.

October: Famous landmarks, buildings, monuments
November: Traditional music / dance
December: Holidays and Festivals
January: traditional/ typical food and drinks
February: Fashion / traditional clothes
March: superstition
April: language and dialects.

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