About the Tutorial

This tutorial was created to show instructors how to create World Wide Web pages that use information on the Internet for teaching and learning. However, it could be used by anyone who would like to design World Wide Web pages for any purpose. The tutorials cover the basic elements of World Wide Web pages.

Why Create World Wide Web Documents?

The World Wide Web is a unique tool which allows you to acess not only text but also graphics, sound, or video information from all over the Internet world. By creating your own World Wide Web documents, you can take advantage of this wealth of resources. For example, you can create a "hyper-lesson" for students containing diverse sources of information from the Internet. Or you can design research projects on World Wide Web for students to explore and discover information themselves. All in all, creating World Wide Web documents is an exciting way to bring the Internet into your classroom extend your classroom to the world.

For more examples, see MCLI's page, Teaching and Learning on the WWW.

Objectives

This tutorial is meant to show the basic steps and provide examples for creating HTML documents and displaying them within in your WWW browser. In these lessons you will:

... identify and use different HTML formatting conventions.
... create and modify HTML documents using a simple text editor program such as TeachText for the Macintosh or NotePad for Windows.
... write a simple lesson that presents information, graphics, and provides hypertext links to other documents on the Internet.

In this tutorial, you wil be creating a World Wide Web page that is a lesson on Volcanoes.

What is HTML?

HTML, or HyperText Markup Language, is how a WWW browser displays its multimedia documents. The documents themselves are plain text files (ASCII) with special "tags" or codes that the World Wide Web program knows how to interpret and display on your screen. With just a simple text editor, you can create your own World Wide Web-based pages or information centers that connect to the Internet. See the MCLI WWW InfoPage for related resources and guides to HTML resources.

Before You Start....

This tuturial assumes you have a basic knowledge of how to use World Wide Web menus, buttons, and hypertext links. Since you are reading this page, we can also assume that you are at a computer capable of running a World Wide Web browser program. For a well-written, concise overview of the World Wide Web, see Entering the World-Wide Web: A Guide to Cyberspace, the WWW Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), or any of the many items available from our WWW InfoPage

You should have access to a word processor or text editor program capable of creating plain text files. Examples are the ones that come standard with system software, i.e. TeachText for the Macintosh or NotePad for Windows. You should also be familiar with switching between open applications as well as using the mouse to copy and paste selections of text.

How the Tutorial Works

Upon entering the tutorial, you will first see an index of all lessons. We suggest that you proceed through in the listed order, but within the tutorial at any time you can return to the index to jump to a different section. At times you may want to print a page-- It's easy on the World Wide Web! Just select Print from the File menu.

As a convention, all menu names and items will be shown in bold text. All text that you should enter from the keyboard will appear in typewriter style.

Within each lesson, you can click on a link that shows an example HTML file for that section.

Now... return to the index of lessons...

Writing HTML

The Internet Connection at MCLI is Alan Levine --}
Comments to levine@maricopa.edu