The following programs were used to
draw up these internet pages:
- Picture Publisher
- Corel Presentation
- Netscape Composer
For the control we used the following
browsers:
- Netscape Navigator
- Internet Explorer von Microsoft
- Front Page
The entire development of an internet presentation was
completely new for all the members of the team. Despite difficult phases
it is surprising that all the members held out till the end of the project.
One of the reasons for this was certainly the good relationship in between
the group. It seems that the majority of the members probably already has
the necessary patience which is probably characteristic for all programmers.
We deliberately tried to manage with the means available
at our school. The photos were scanned in by a simple flat-bed scanner.
Only a few days before the end of the project we bought and installed a
digital camera. This model gave us the opportunity for first experiments
with the camera. As far as the pictures are conerned it was always necessary
to make a compromise between the quality of the photos and the size of
the data file in order to shorten the structure of a page. Another compromise
had to be made concerning the size of the pictures on the screen. If the
pictures are too small details vanish, if they are bigger the screen resolution
of 800x600 is hardly sufficient for a complete presentation. As the pupils
regarded this internet presentation at the same time as a photo documentation,
most of the pictures were left very big.
At the beginning the pupils had the impression that the
use of the single programs was the actual difficulty. In the course of
the project they had to realise in fact that the makeup of a page made
at least as much demands on them. Due to the fact that this was our first
project and we thus couldn`t solve all the problems when it comes to the
page makeup, we did without frames because of pedagogic reasons. That ist
why all the pages have a simple structure. The fact that this model is
the very pride of its ´architects and builders` is the reason why
the different perspectives of the staircase model appear very often
when it comes to the presentation of the project.