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8a	An eighth grade student working very hard on his web page report.	12/15/04
By: Matt

Here at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish School, students are required to create web pages that relate to current events happening in our school. Our school web site is eighty percent student made. In computer class, all of the students use Microsoft Word to create all of their web pages. The eighth grade class is in charge of creating web page articles on our teachers, staff members, and other people and events associated with our school. The seventh grade is in charge of creating web page articles on all of our school’s sporting events.

The first step in making a good web page is deciding a topic we wish to write a web page about. The eighth grade chose their topics from a huge list of staff members, teachers, and other special events related to our school that our computer teacher, Mr. Hall, produced for all of the students. After all the students have chosen a topic for their web page report, they have to gather as much information as possible because there is a five hundred-word minimum for the eighth grade web page reports. There is a four hundred-word minimum for all of the web page reports that the seventh graders create. All web pages also must be in paragraph form and not in direct quotes from students or other staff members. In all web page reports, students must have an appropriate picture or pictures of their subject. Students must have a textured background and a WordArt title. After the students have proofread their work over and over again, the students are required to turn their web page reports into the “S” drive so Mr. Hall can grade them. Then Mr. Hall goes through each and every student’s web page and highlights all of his or her mistakes. Most students don’t have too many mistakes because we have experience in making web pages and because we have a good computer teacher. After he has graded and highlighted all of the mistakes of the students’ work, he prints out each student’s web page reports with all of the highlighted mistakes and makes the students’ hand write each and every mistake, since we are in groups of five or six people so it is a little bit easier to correct their mistakes. After the group has corrected all of their mistakes, the student’s hand their corrections to Mr. Hall so he knows the students actually did the corrections. The students also get a grade for doing the corrections and that is usually an easy “A.” Then the students have to go back to their original web page and correct all of their mistakes, but Mr. Hall lets the students use the paper with all of the highlighted mistakes that the students have corrected in their groups for reference. Then when the students have made all of the corrections and made their web pages perfect, they turn their work into the “S” drive for a final grade. Then if the students’ web page is error free and Mr. Hall approves their web page, he puts their web page on the school web site so every body can read their work.

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