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WEB SITE WORKSHOP II!

Our goal today is to create external links.


Exercise 1:

First, follow the directions from Workshop I  to open a new document. Start a page entitled "My Favorite Sites" and include your name on it.  Click into the icon   labelled "Link" above.  Type in "UDC" in the field for "Enter Text" and then type "http://www.udc.edu" in the field for "Link to."  Then click "Apply" or "OK." Then click "Close."


You should have a link that looks like this:  UDC


That's the hard way to create links.

The easy way is to simply copy and paste links from one document to another.  For example, you can just copy and paste the above (or this) UDC  link into your own document.  First, you must go to File and then select Edit Page. Then highlight the link, go to Edit, select Copy, and then Paste it into your document.

Exercise 2:

Copy and paste the following link to Yahoo! into your page.

 Yahoo!

Special Note:  When you do this, be very careful about copyright issues.  You do not want to plagiarize.  Always give credit to the author, link to the main page of  a site whenever possible, and do not misrepresent or alter the original intent of the site.  For more information about this, check out the U.S. Copyright Office website at www.loc.gov/copyright.

In fact, you may be thinking about ownership of the sites you will be creating and who owns them.  What you create is yours, unless you are being paid to do it for someone else.  You may mark your personal sites with the copyright symbol or the word "Copyright", the date,  and your name to give notice to others.  However, in constructing the Reading/Writing Connection website, it would be helpful if we all agree that this will be the property of UDCand we  agree to print out and sign the Release Form.


Links to outside websites, such as those of the  U.S. Copyright Office, UDC, and Yahoo! are called External Links.

External links for compiling a collection of sites that you find particularly useful.


Project for the afternoon:
Create a page called "My Favorite Sites."  Surf the Internet to find sites, RELEVANT TO READING, WRITING, AND GRAMMAR, that you particularly like or find useful.  Giving credit and/or a short description of the sites, explaining how they will be useful to our students, list them on your page.  Use either the hard or easy method of making these links.  Use either Bullets or a Table to organize their appearance on your page.  See my Favorite Sites for an example.  Feel free to be creative with font styles and colors.
 
Note:  You may need to use the "Remove All Styles" button occasionally [the A with an eraser, between the A and the bullets above] if the link continues into your text.


Save the page on this disk as a file with your initials followed by "fs" (for favorite sites) such as "hkfs".


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