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Developing a Website for the Foreign Language Classroom

F LAVA Conference, Williamsburg, VA October 2013 Annie Perrault Reichhoff US French Teacher Cape Henry Collegiate School VP Norfolk French Allaince. Developing a Website for the Foreign Language Classroom. The Host is where you put your Website and all the Web pages. The Host!.

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Developing a Website for the Foreign Language Classroom

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  1. FLAVA Conference, Williamsburg, VA October 2013 Annie Perrault Reichhoff US French Teacher Cape Henry Collegiate School VP Norfolk French Allaince Developing a Website for the Foreign Language Classroom

  2. The Host is where you put your Website and all the Web pages The Host!

  3. Free Web Hosting IT"S FREE! Has limitations 2 Types of Hosting Standard Web Hosting Not Free! More Options

  4. Top FREE hosting providers for WL site • Wix.com (Easy Website builder: html5, Flash, mobile, blogs, etc.) • Biz.ly (Website & Blog builder, Photo album, Free biz.ly domain) • Webs.com (Easy site builder, blog, forms, polls, Free subdomain)

  5. List of Hosts with Website Builders http://www.top10bestwebsitebuilders.com/

  6. DomainA Domain is your website namemywebsitename.com Choose a short and easy Domain Name related to the topic of your site

  7. What are my site goals? Educate, Share, Fun.... Is it for students, teachers, others? Planning your WL site

  8. What information do I want to share? Class Material, Vocabulary, Grammar, Culture, Daily News... Planning your WL Website

  9. How do I want to share? Text, Blogs, Videos, Audio, Vodcast, Pictures... Planning

  10. Build & Design • Look at other sites • http://www.chcfrancais.com • Uses • Weebly.com

  11. Build & Design • Look at other sites • https://sites.google.com/a/capehenry.org/spanish4fun/ • uses sites.google.com

  12. Build & Design • Look at other sites • creativelanguageclass.wordpress.com • uses Wordpress.org

  13. Theme • Specific to World Language • Theme can be easily changed. You may want to “try on” a few different themes • Changing your theme will not affect the information added to the site. Don’t be afraid to switch things up.

  14. Design Basics • Choose basic fonts for Text • Stick to black and grey fonts • SaveFancier fonts for your Titles • Use colored fonts sparingly • Create a consistent design

  15. Organize WL Site • Clear Navigation Menu • 3-5 Core Pages • Home/Classes/Blog/Culture/Current Events • Subpages • about / students/ topics / print, radio or TV news

  16. Core Pages Sub Pages

  17. Use photos to help break up blank areas or large amount of text Photos

  18. HTML Embed Code WOW!

  19. HTML Embed code • HTML is the most basic language used to build a Web page. • It is the language which makes it possible to present information on the Internet. • Web Page Editors - Finding the perfect editor will help you learn design, HTML, and CSS

  20. End Product on Web Page HTML Embed Code

  21. Transmitting and updates news in an automated way. • Most news sites (including virtually all blogs) will publish what is called an RSS feed which is regularly updated with the latest available headlines and/or articles. RSS Rich Site summary

  22. RSS FEED

  23. Ressources • Weebly.com • Techniques/Davis-MultimediaSite/ • http://webdesign.about.com/od/beforeyoustartawebsite/p/build_website.htm

  24. Disclaimer

  25. chcfrancais.com Let’s Explore!

  26. Session Evaluation

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