This web site contains some tips and hints for creating various educational resources that could be displayed on the World Wide Web for everyone to view. It contains a few ideas for teaching materials that may not have occurred to you.
You may ask "What's the point in creating educational resources on the World Wide Web?" Well, if you're not a teacher, probably not much! However, if you are a teacher, or know one, then there are several advantages in doing so:
Anything published on the old WWW can be read by anyone world-wide who has an Internet connection. Just think of all the adulation you will get - E-mails from schools in every country saying how they value your work. Well, perhaps not! Still, it does beat photocopying!
Even if you don't have an Internet connection, there are still advantages to creating web pages - providing you do have an Internet browser (which comes packaged with most computers nowadays, I believe). They are a fairly easy way to produce what is, in effect, a multimedia package - including sounds, movies, and hyperlinks to other documents, and you won't have to learn (or buy!) some complicated authoring package such as Director or Multimedia Toolbook.
The web sites that I am going to show you how to create will be written using a language called HTML, which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. This is basically plain English with a few keywords added to it.
Creating web pages does require you to know a smattering of HTML. You won't need to be an expert in it, nor will you need to know fancy Internet languages such as Java (although that would help, obviously).
