RHS 202
D. C. Ellison, Instructor
Making Sense of the 60's Web Project
You are about to (1) become acquainted with the history resources on the World Wide Web, (2) upgrade you computer skills, and (3) make your contribution to the class by developing a Web Page on a topic from "Making Sense of the 60's.". Or, as Andy Warhold might have phrased it, you are about to gain your 15 minutes of media recognition. The R&R (Rhyme and Reason) is as follows:
First, go to the home page of the History & Political Science Department and open the link titled "Making Sense of the 60's. Then, from the items in the left hand column listed under "Who's Who," or "A Time Line," select one individual, group,event, etc. listed there and develop a web page on that subject. While you are on the page, see what others have done to get a feeling for the project.
Then, get thee to the library and do some research on the subject. Prepare an initial draft for the instructor's review and hand it in on the date assigned in the Assignment Page and upon its return, redraft and submit your final copy, on disk.
The information in your final draft will consist of
(1) a brief summary of the event, incident...etc.
(2) its significance, relevance or importance to the decade and beyond
(3) what other historians/contemporaries/social observers had to say about it
(4)at lease five visuals (pictures) related to it
(5)at least five Web links related to it.
You will draft an actual Web Page using HTML language and submit it on a 3 1/2" floppy disk, with a complete heading on the label. The instructor anticipates uploading this to the page.
Anticipating the reactions of a few, allow me to sooth the troubled waters up front:
1. "But I don't have a computer or knowledge of what HTML is all about. I've never done a Web Page." No problem! There are computers on campus. You can draft a Web Page without accessing the Web. There are templets you can use wherein you have only to "fill in the blanks" so to speak. Netscape has such a templet.
2. Are you available for personal help?" Naturally! The instructor will make himself available.
Constructing the Web Page may be accomplished by beginning with one of the following:
(1) Use a templet, such as the one found in Netscape Communicator.
(2) Netscape offers a website construction kit locate at http://home.netscape.com/websites/tour/index.html?cp=sitindexp. Caution. If you use one of the "freebees" offered by Netscape or others, you will have to "clean up" your draft to eliminate the advertising placed on it and to ensure that no "pop-ups" appear when loaded.
(3) If you have the Windows 98 or higher system, simply type your page in text and then save it in "html" format.
(4) Find an existing Web Page that you would like to copy. From the browser clink on "View." From there click on "Page Source." This will bring up the html language document for that Web Page. Save it to disk by utilizing the CTS S function. Go to the saved document and do your editing.
Caution again. This is not to be construed as a license to plagarize. Do your own work. Use of an existing Web Page for layout is O.K. Wholesale copying of the text from another Web Page is plagarism and be dealt with in accordance with College policy.(5) Try this very short set of instructions on using html tags (RECOMMENDED)Click Here
Note: This project is worth 25 possible points. It is a project requiring sustained effort. If interested, please notify the instructor by e-mail of your election and proposed topic by the close of the second week of class. By the close of the 8th week you will submit your "rough draft" in HTML format for review by the instructor. The "final draft" is due by the close of the 12th week.