Swinging Through the Treetops:

Extreme Web Publishing

IAAP 2004 Professional Education Conference

Gini Courter Charlotte CowtanAnnette Marquis

TRIAD Consulting

HOUSEKEEPING

COACHES

Laura Nunn

AlVerta Hardy

Nancy Mazzucco

Barbara Cameron

Dorothy Haines

Teresa Rutan

Jackie Hopkins

Susan Young

Linda Reckaway

COACHES

Changing Role of Teams in Today’s Workplace

TeamA small group of people….

Team…who bring to the table a set of complementary and appropriate skills…

Team… and who hold themselves mutually accountable for achieving a clear and identifiable set of goals.

TeamA small group of people, who bring to the table a set of complementary and appropriate skills, and who hold themselves mutually accountable for achieving a clear and identifiable set of goals.

Introduction to Team Learning

Key requirement of all learning organizations:

The ability to access or create new information and to ensure that it is freely shared

A fully empowered team will:

• Define its own goals• Set its own standards • Give feedback to members about

work performance and team skills • Appraise its own performance• Identify and support the training

and development needs of its members

Learning Team Assumptions

• Every member’s participation is essential to the team’s success

• Members’ roles are fluid

• Authority is shared

• Information is freely shared with the team

Learning Team Assumptions

• Every team member has something to learn and something to teach.

• Members don’t know precisely what they will learn or what they will teach

• Team goals include performance AND learning expectations

Key Characteristics of Successful Learning Teams:

• Clear (and shared) sense of purpose

• Good communication

• Freely shared information

Key Characteristics of Successful Learning Teams:

• Shared leadership

• Interdependence of team members

• Utilization of members’ strengths

Key Characteristics of Successful Learning Teams:

• Mutual encouragement of risk taking

• Adaptive – able change/modify plans when new information and/or circumstances emerge

• Pride in team identity

CREATING TODAY’S LEARNING TEAMS

TEAM REQUIREMENTSLaptop computers two or more with FrontPage 2002 or 2003

Photographer – one or more

Writers – two or more

Process specialist with web experience – one or more

Design specialists – two or more

Digital cameras – ½ or more share with another team

Other – (Ask Me)You may not share a team with someone else from

your company

Developing Web Sites with FrontPage

Planning a Web Site• Why do you want to create a site? • Who is your audience? • What information do you want to distribute?• How do you want your site organized?• What visual impression do you want your site to

make?• How much time can you invest in maintenance

and updates?• Where will the site be housed? On what kind of

equipment? How fast is the equipment? How large can the site be?

Building a Web Page

• Fonts in FrontPage

• Line spacing in FrontPage

• Editing and formatting text

• Organizing with Lists

• Applying Borders and Shading

• Saving and previewing your work

Using Tables

• Tables as page structure

• Creating tables– Setting table properties

• Changing cell and table properties– Borders– Background

Working with Graphics

• Clip art, photos, or line drawings

• Import images from– digital cameras– scanned images– Web sites– image software– clipart collections

Inserting Graphics

• Position graphics using tables

• Double-click image to open Picture Properties dialog box– Enter size and other properties

• Change Picture properties on Save

BREAK TIME

Hyperlinks

• A hyperlink connects text or images on one Web page to another location:– A page in the same Web site– A page outside the Web site– A location on the same page– An e-mail message

Creating Hyperlinks

• Internal links– Links from text or images on one page

in the site to another– Can link to an existing page or create a

new page

• External links– Links from your site to an external URL

(Uniform Resource Locator)

Creating Hyperlinks

• E-mail links– Links that launch the visitor’s mail application

to send an e-mail message

• Bookmarks– Links from one part of a page to another

• Create the bookmark in the destination document• Point the hyperlink to the bookmark

Creating a Web Site

• A Web site folder

• Subfolders called _private and Images

• Hidden folders, _vti_cnf and _vti_pvt, for Web site configuration and management

• A home page

Importing Pages into a Web Site

• Add files– HTML files– Microsoft Office Documents– Adobe Acrobat files– Image files

• Add folders• Import content from another web site

Creating a Web’s Navigation Structure

• Manually insert hyperlinks to link one page to another

• Add a custom link bar Web component to each page of the Web

• Apply Shared Borders with navigation buttons

TEAM MISSION

MISSIONCreate a web site to promote the

2005 IAAP Professional Education Conference:

When? Feb. 28 – March 2, 2005

Where? Miami, Florida

Who? Target your audience

Possible Web Site Content

• Reports about experiences at this conference

• Focus on next year’s location and sessions (Make up information)

• Highlight importance of Professional Education Conferences for personal development and career advancement

DELIVERABLES

REQUIRED DELIVERABLES

A WEB SITE WITH AT LEAST:• Three linked pages• One piece of text content provided by

another team

All TEAM MEMBERS HAVE COMPLETED ALL ITEMS ON THEIR SKILLS CHECKLIST

Behavioral Norms

• Keep rules to a minimum• Add norms if and as the need arises• Expect behaviors that improve team

performance and enhance team climate

• Hold each other accountable for meeting behavior expectations (see Handout Page 15)