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Adding a new page to link to from your default page (good for parent teacher conferences sign ups, projects, interactive notebook table of contents, too!!)
File
New
Page
(Normal Page) some computers won’t ask you this
Save as
Then name the folder (if it is a homework page, name it homework)
Get to work on making it great!
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Making a link back to your home from all the newly added pages you create
Make sure you are on the new page
Add a picture of a house or simply type ‘home’ in the top left corner
Highlight it
Click on the little globe with the link to the bottom right of it
Find your default address in the list
Click on it and make sure it shows up in the URL address window
Ok
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Adding a table
Table
Insert
Table
Fill in how many rows and columns you want
Ok
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Coloring in cells
Hilight the cells you want to color in by right left clicking the mouse and dragging the cursor to the cells you want to fill in
Right click while your cursor is hovering over the black boxes
Go to background color
Click on the color you want…
Apply
Okay
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Or
Hilight the cells you want to color in by right left clicking the mouse and dragging the cursor to the cells you want to fill in
Right click while your cursor is hovering over the black boxes
Go to background color
Click on custom colors
Move the little “star” around on the main color box until you get to a color you like
Move the lever on the far right up and down for intensity of color (light to dark)
Ok
Apply
Okay
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Coloring text
Type away on your new page
Hilight
Find the letter ‘A’ at the top of the page (it is probably black)
Click on the little arrow next to it
pick a color
Ok
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Or
Type away on your new page
Hilight
Find the letter ‘A’ at the top of the page (it is probably black)
Click on the little arrow next to it
Click on ‘more colors’
Click on ‘custom‘…then the color world is your oyster!!
Ok
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Stealing…I mean … Adding images from Natasha’s page
Open Internet Explorer and go to my page
Click on the image
Right click ‘copy’
Go to your ‘Front Page’ page
Left click on the place you want the image
Right click ‘paste’
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Note: you can do the same thing with the images you find on Microsoft Word…even on the Microsoft image page on the web… they’re free.
Resizing images
Complete the above task!!
Left click on the image
Little square dots should appear around the image
Click on the CORNER dots and drag them around to create the size you want.
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Adding text when you hover over images
Single left click on your image
Right click while still hovering over the image
Left click on picture properties
Where it says “alternative representations” type in the ‘text’ box
Ok
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Adding links
You need to start with an object or word on the page
Hilight the object or word
Click on the little globe with the link to the bottom right of it
Find the address to which you want to link this item (make sure the http:// that is already in the address box is gone)
Click ok
SAVE!!
Parent Teacher Conference web page
Add a new page
Save it as conferences
Go to that page and add a table for each date you plan to conference
Fill in times and student names
Color code as you please
I tell the students to have their parents look at the website and e-mail me or send me a note.
Problem: No computer access. I make it the student’s responsibility to go to the library during lunch and find times. This worked well last year, and saved me a lot of time. Of course there are always exceptions…but works well for the majority.
Adding an assignment page to your website
Open Front Page
Open the assignment which was typed in a Word document
Make a new page in Front Page
Save it with an appropriate title
Go to your WORD document
Click Edit
Select all
Right click ‘copy’
Go back to the new web page
Right click
Paste Note: you will have to fiddle with the text size, etc. but it’s the easiest way
SAVE
Go to your default page and make a link to the new page (see adding links)
SAVE
Do you see a theme here…SAVE!!! Many of us have learned the hard way.