USA  The Sound of ….                                                                              Technical hints 
  • you can watch the videos on the DVDs either using the beamer and the master-PC or watch them locally on the monitors of those PCs that are equipped with a DVD drive
  • you should normally watch the videos in English; however, if you have problems in understanding what you hear you could select German subtitles to help you along
  • you'll find all the additional material from the DVDs (texts etc.) in our project directory on the server (i.e. you don't need the DVDs to access that material); you will also find that material plus extra material not included on the DVDs at www.wissen.swr.de/usa.
  • if you are looking for additional information on the internet it is important that you use the favorites function of your browser so that you can always return easily to important websites
  • if you want to save some of that information locally it is important that you choose file names that are easy to remember
  • file names should follow these rules: only use lower case; never include blanks; never include German Sonderzeichen (üößä)
  • make sure you save everything in your group's subdirectory

 

 
  Structure of the Sound of Website

 Textfeld: index.htm
Textfeld: louis_start.htm
Textfeld: miss_start.htm
Textfeld: nc_start.htm
Textfeld: louis_1.htm
Textfeld: miss_1.htm
Textfeld: nc_1.htm
Textfeld: louis_2.htm
Textfeld: miss_2.htm
Textfeld: nc_2.htm
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and so on….

Remember the naming conventions and the rules about Sonderzeichen. Please keep in mind that not everybody uses Windows as an operating system when surfing the net. You should therefore restrict your use of fonts to those fonts that can be read by all browsers under all operating systems, namely Times New Roman and Arial. Don’t use too many and “exotic” fonts. Keep everything simple and still try to make it attractive.

Working at home

If you want to do some of the work at home, here’s what you can do:

Start your browser. Enter the following adress: ftp://xxxxx@server.ng.s.bw.schule.de/. Enter the password when asked and you are connected to the psoundof directory on the server. You can now get all the files you nedd by simply using drag&drop.

Alternatively you can use an FTP-programm. If you haven’t got one, you can download ws_ftp from the server. Start your browser and enter the following adress: ftp://xxxxx@server.ng.s.bw.schule.de. The password is xxxxx. You can now drag the file ws_ftple.exe to your desktop and install it on your PC.

What your webpages should contain

Create an introductory page called _start.htm. This page should tell the reader what to expect and make him curious about the topic. Don’t forget to include links to the following pages. Make navigation easy for the visitors.

All of your pages should contain text, pictures and links to the internet. Texts shouldn’t be too long. Include sounds or videos where appropriate. Keep in mind that a page shouldn’t contain too much data; if a page is too “large” it takes very long to load.