Information Distribution How To...Publish on Paper How To...Publish Web Pages How To...Choose Which Software to Use
	Distributing information is a challenge and an opportunity presented by the Internet. "Publishing" in the classroom can serve both you, the teacher, and your students. As the teacher, you can now create weekly assignment sheets in HTML format which can be viewed with any browser over a class or lab intranet. Directions for students and links to resources for each assignment allow you to create a much more independent learning environment. You might decide that students' final projects should be published in the form of HTML documents for posting to the class intranet or school Web server for parent and community viewing. The software in this kit supports publication of teacher and student materials on paper as well as HTML documents ready to post to the intranet or Internet. How To...Publish on Paper For the quickest publications, use ClickBook to present student work as brochures or booklets with a wide range of layout options. Printing websites straight from the Internet does not always lead to neatly printed text that fits onto a standard page. By using ClickBook, you can choose a layout which best suits your needs, and it will be organized properly on the page. Text is prepared using any word processing software and printed as a ClickBook. Web sites can also be printed as ClickBook documents and distributed.   How To...Publish Web Pages (HTML Documents) HTML is the standard format which your browser can read. The ability to convert text documents to HTML means that you can share all of your work with anyone, regardless of what software they have or what kind of computer they have. Web pages can be published on one computer in the classroom, on an intranet (a series of computers linked to each other), or on the Internet (the pages are stored on a server that is accessible to the World Wide Web). All three types of Web page publishing involve the same general process: material is prepared in word-processing format and converted to HTML format by either a program like Myrmidon or a Web page publishing program such as Claris HomePage. Once the pages are in HTML format, they can be stored in a folder on one desktop, in a folder on the school's intranet server, or on an Internet server.   How To...Choose Which Software to Use For a wider audience, you'll want to develop HTML documents using Myrmidon which can be posted to your Personal Web Sharing folder for intranet publication, or to your school Web server for Internet publication. Myrmidon + Personal Web Sharing Features: Myrmidon converts any text into HTML format ready to publish. The pages can include Internet addresses which Myrmidon will detect and convert into active links. It can also contain pictures and graphics which Myrmidon wil convert to GIF images viewable from your browser. Strategies for using Myrmidon and Personal Web Sharing: Teachers can post assignment sheets (typed in standard word-processing documents) as classroom intranets, with clickable links to Internet resources such as search engines, news services, and curriculum links. Students can publish their work within the classroom as Web Sites or on the school's Internet site for the world of parents and community to see. ClickBook Features: Prints text in many layout formats, such as double-sided brochures and booklets. Strategies for using ClickBook: It can be used to publish both text documents and downloaded Web pages, creating reports that include both. Students can publish their own books and books of their favorite Web sites using ClickBook. NetCard Features: NetCard allows students to send "electronic postcards" with text on "one side" and graphics, photos, video or sounds attached to the "back side." These e-mail files are saved in a special format which can be read by anyone, whether they have a Mac OSÐbased or a Windows-based computer, and regardless of whether they have NetCard in their computer. Strategies for using NetCard: NetCard can be used as a way to publish what students have learned in a unit. How about a NetCard from Cape Cod to England in the early 1600's announcing the birth of Peregrine, the first Pilgrim child to be born in the Colonies, or a NetCard from the planet Pluto inviting tourists to bring their warm clothes when they come. NetCards can also be used to share news from one classroom to another on the Internet or as a school/home communication tool.   Sending a Large Still Image With ClearPhone It's often difficult to see certain things, such as student artwork or curriculum artifacts, in the small video window of ClearPhone. There is a way to show these kinds of items by taking a still image. Open ClearPhone's video digitizing window to 320x240 pixels. Point the video camera at the subject, and focus it carefully. Use the Copy item from the Edit menu to capture a still image. Open Simple Text; then paste the image into the SimpleText window. Save the image file to the desktop. Now, back in ClearPhone, choose Send File from the menu items, and locate the file you just saved. This will cause your image to be sent to your correspondent.