Project Management Guide
Technology Management Plan
Techniques for Saving Internet Information
You can print resources from the Internet to make hard copies for the classroom.
You can print out web pages, graphics, data, or email letters. Photocopy
these printouts or transfer them to an overhead transparency. CAUTION:
A web page may be much larger than you think. You can end up with one "page"
that prints out to 10 sheets of paper. So when you print, you may want
to print a page at a time. Also remember that just like information from
any other source, information from the web may be copyrighted. It is important
to observe copyright laws.
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Save Internet Resources on a Disk, Hard Drive, or Zip Drive |
You can save individual web pages simply by using the "save as" feature
on your net browser. You have a choice of saving "text" or "HTML." Selecting
"text" allows you to later open the document in a word processor. Depending
on the word processor that you use, some or all of the formatting will
be retained. If you select "HTML" you get all of the colors and formatting.
This saves it as an HTML document which can be opened with a web browser
such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer without
being connected to the Internet.
Example: Practice saving this update
on the Sakura-Jima
volcano on the desktop of your computer and then opening it in a word
processor. What's missing from the document?
When you save web pages, the graphics are not automatically saved with
the page. You must save each of the images separately. With a PC you do
that by placing the mouse arrow over the graphic and pressing the right
mouse button. A dialogue box appears. For a MAC, click and hold for a few
seconds until the dialogue box appears. You can select the option "Save
this image as..." You can now open these documents in the web browser
or another appropriate program without being connected
to the Internet.
Example: Practice
saving a weather
image on the hard drive of your computer.
Even if you have an Internet connection in the classroom, there are
advantages to saving pages to be used with a disk, hard drive or Zip disk:
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Web pages can be accessed much faster from the hard drive than from a distant
server.
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You avoid getting a "Server Down" message when you are trying to access
a page, since it will always be there on your disk, hard drive or Zip disk.
(However it will be the version that you saved, not the latest version
available on the web.)
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Students are limited to only the pages that you have saved on the hard
drive and can't get into forbidden areas.
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If you save pages or graphics on a disk, you can easily load the files
on a number of computers for many students to view (such as in a computer
lab).
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Web Whacker Software or Other Web Collection Utility |
Downloading text and graphics of various pages can be tedious. An easier
way is to use a web collection utility that collects, organizes, converts,
and saves all the information you find on the web. While browsing the page
you want to save, simply click on the web saving utility, and it will automatically
download the entire page and all of its associated graphics. In addition,
you can specify how many levels you want it to download. That is, if you
specify this page and one more level, it downloads the specified page and
all the pages that are linked to it. Selecting two more levels downloads
this page, all pages linked to it, and all pages linked to those pages.
CAUTION: You must be very careful about downloading more than one level.
Some sites have so many links that there is insufficient time or space
on your hard drive to do this. Once you have saved the sites that you want,
you can access those sites right from your computer without
being connected to the Internet. Web
Whacker Software is available for about $50.
