Week 8: Web Authoring

As a participating teacher in the LDAPS project, a key responsibility was to document our work with the legos, especially through web pages. That way, not only Tufts, but the folks at NASA, can see what a great job we're doing! (and that their money has been spent wisely...)

If you are new to web authoring, you can document your entire project simply by using a word processor and clip art. The people at Tufts will put the whole thing on the web for you!


Here I am with a reporter from the Chapel Hill News. They got wind of the LDAPS project and thought it would make a good story... and it did!

We watched the students as we talked. They were totally engaged - even now, the last week of the project...

The reporter did his homework. He researched the Tufts LDAPS site, as well as our web site at Seawell.

He seemed impressed with everything the students were doing, and marveled how much school had changed since he was in fifth grade. He took special interest in a student who chose to build with legos for his book talk project, since this work was done at home after "playing" with Legos all week at school...

This student built a "Lego Alamo" after reading the book, Remember the Alamo.


If you are lucky enough to have a Web Master or Ms. at your school, involve this person or give your documentation to her to add to your school web pages. It makes more sense in the long run to have all your school info on one server if posssible.

At Seawell, we have a mixture. Laurie's pages were put up by Tufts' grad students. Meg began her class pages with the help of a parent and a professor at State. Susan O'Neal has just designed her web pages for her second LEGO project!