TESOL 2008: Worlds of TESOL
Building Communities of Practice, Inquiry, Creativity

Web Managers Workshop

6-7 p.m., Fri., April 4, 2008, Electronic Village

Preliminary Agenda

• Welcome!
• Introductions
• Topics and Activities

Activities

I: Possible topics

• What, why, and how to publish
• The basics: Rhetorical triangle:
• Why are you publishing a web page?
  
• Who is your audience? (Pathos)
• As a TESOL affiliate, interest section or caucus, who are you? (Ethos)
• Stakeholders:
• Members
• Board
• What is your message? (Logos)
• How to publish
• Do you need a domain name?
• Where will the page(s) be hosted?
• Is the web manager a volunteer?
  
• A friend or spouse?
• A group member?
  
• A board member?
• Will you pay a service?
• How will you maintain the site long term?
• How will you replace the web manager?
  

II: Site sharing

1. Bring your site up on a computer.
2. Share with a friend; discuss concerns.
   

III: Other

IV: Useful resources

A good place to begin

• TESOL: http://www.tesol.org/
  

Tips on effective web design

• Yale Web Style Guide: comprehensive: http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html?/contents.html
• Accessible design tips, see Universal Usability: http://universalusability.com/
  

Validation of HTML and HTML Standards

If you write pages that meet current HTML standards, it is easier to design effective and accessible sites.

• The World Wide Web Consortium (The W3C): http://www.w3.org

 Validators: (from the W3C)

• Cascading Style Sheet: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
• HTML: http://validator.w3.org/

Making a web page, by Claire Bradin Siskin. See: http://www.polyglot.pitt.edu/workshops/techfall04/page.html

Suggestions from the Internet TESOL Journal: (iteslj.org/)

http://iteslj.org/links/TESL/Internet/Making_Your_First_Web_Page/

Suggestions for publishing on the web from TESL-EJ:

http://writing.berkeley.edu/tesl-ej/ej31/int.html

Open-source software for the web:

Open-source software is often available for a variety of platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows, Unix) at low cost, often free. Open-source software is written by teams of volunteers and the original source code is available for others to improve, provided they share the improvements. Some good sites:

Mozilla.org, at http://www.mozilla.org/

Mozilla is the program that is the basis of many web browsers, including Netscape. Mozilla.org provides:

• SeaMonkey (formerly the Mozilla suite): a free browser similar to Netscape. It includes a web-editor.
• Firefox: a free web-browser.