Planning | Searching for Pictures | Saving Picture | Starting a Web Page | Creating Hyperlinks | Enrichment

After thoroughly revising your poem, the next step is to publish your final work. 

We will publish our poems using a web page format that hyperlinks all the poem's imagery to pictures you find on the web.  In order to do this, you need to know how to find pictures and then make a web page.

1.  Planning

What are the imagery words contained in your poem?  Type them below:

 

What type of pictures do you plan to look for to represent your imagery words?  Use one or
two words to describe each of the types of pictures you will look for.

 

2.  Searching for Pictures

There are some web pages on the Internet that will make our search for pictures much easier.  The best of these picture or image search engines is called AltaVista.

 

  • Work with a partner so that one person can have these directions up on one screen and the other partner can have AltaVista up on the other screen.

  • Link to the AltaVista image search engine: http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&stype=simage

  • AltaVista will search through all the titles, file names, and text of its web pages for whatever words you type in the white box under "Search for:"  Practice this by typing in the word "Hitler" (don't type the " ")

  • What were your results?  You should see both color and black and white pictures.  You should also notice that under the list of pictures, there are at least 20 more pages that each list 12 more pictures related to Hitler.  If you thought Hitler was an imagery word, you could click on one of these pictures, go to the original web page, and copy the picture for your poem.

  • Practice searching by typing in one of your key words from the "Planning" section.

  • How many different pictures might be usable for your poem.

 

3.  Saving a Picture

*For this portion of the activity, work individually.

  • Perform a search at AltaVista for one of the imagery words in your poem

  • Look at the list of pictures and find one you would want to use.  Then click on the picture to go to the page that its on.

  • Find the picture on the page you linked to and place your mouse pointer on the picture.

  • When the pointer is on the picture, right click on your mouse (this will be the opposite mouse button that you normally don't use).

  • A gray box should appear with an option "Save picture as..."

  •   Highlight "Save picture as" with your mouse, then left click to select this choice.

  • A "Save As..." will appear

  • The choices of places to save will probably be different for everyone!  Look for the "Save in:" area of this window.  If it doesn't say "C:" for the Student Drive, click on the down arrow next to it and look for the "C:" drive

Ask for help if you can't find it!

  • Once you're in the "C:" drive, look for your folder that we've used all year.  Select and click on your folder with the mouse.

  • Look for the "File name" section of the window.  Make sure that the file name describes the picture.  If it doesn't, change the name to something you want it to be.  Once you have an acceptable name, click "Save."

  • You now have saved a picture correctly! 

  • Follow this procedure until you have all of your pictures for your poem.

 

 4.  Starting a Web Page

Unless you know HTML code, you need a program to help you create a web page.  The program we will use is Netscape Composer.
  • Since we have been working in Internet Explorer, go to the desktop and double-click on Netscape Communicator.  The icon looks like this

  • At the top of the window is a label "Communicator."  Click on it and a gray box will appear:

Click on the third choice in the gray box, "Composer."

  • A window will pop up that looks like this:

  • Composer works just like a word processing document, which we have used several times before:  1) Use the keyboard to type in the white area 2)  Make sure you save properly all your work before you close or you will lose it all

  • Now type your full poem first.  Worry about spacing (centering, indenting, etc.) last

  • Once your full poem is typed, go to and click on "File",  pull down to "Save As," and save your file in your folder on the "C:" drive.

 

 

5.  Creating a Hyperlink

You're almost done with your hyperlinked poem!

Now all you have to do is link your pictures to your web page.

  • Use your mouse to highlight one of your imagery words; it will appear in blue:

  • Now look at the button at the top of the window that says "Link" and click on it.  The following window will appear:

  • Notice that the white bar under "Link to a page location or local file" is empty; this needs to be filled with the right information to work as a link.  We want to click on the button that says "Choose File..." so that we can get our picture's location from your folder on the "C:" drive.

  • Click on "Choose File..." and this window will appear:

Make sure that the "Look in:" box reads the "C:" drive and that you highlight your folder!

  • Notice how the "Files of type:" box says "HTML Files."  You won't be able to see your pictures if you don't change this part.  Click on the down arrow in the box that says "HTML Files" and select "All Files"

  • The picture that you want should now appear.  Select your picture by click on it and then clicking the "Open" button.

  • Notice that the white bar under "Link to a page location or local file:" is now full.  This means that you have selected your picture properly!  So click "OK"

  • If you notice on your composer screen, the word you highlighted has changed color and is underlined.  You created a link!

  • Repeat this process until you have linked all of your pictures to all of your imagery words.

  • Make sure you save!

 

 

6.  Enrichment

If you fly through hyperlinking your poem...
  • First try helping others with this process.  You are probably MUCH better at computers than most of us.
  • Secondly, play around with text color, backgrounds, etc. if you know how to do this.  If not, ask Mr. Baczkowski for help.

 

You're Done!  Go back to the introduction page and read the "Conclusion"