Relevant tutorials for demonstrating the skills for this lesson can be found in the preparation section.

It may be appropriate to provide a database to allow pupils to centrally save websites of interest or in another digitally shareable method.

This part of the activity is about sound and its use on a web page.

Develop this by discussing:

• Sound can be added to a web page either as:
  • Background sound.
  • A sound file, linked to a graphic or hyperlink.
• Why use sound on a web page?
• The types of sound found on a web site.
• The disadvantages or problems.
• Which sounds would be appropriate for their web site.

Demonstrate how to add a background sound or sound file.

Pupils can then add sound to their site if they wish.

Show pupils the language cards language7 for this lesson.

JavaScript is a programming language understood by web browsers. Using a different set of commands a variety of effects can be achieved by adding the code into the HTML of the web page.

Although writing in JavaScript is not as difficult as it sounds, this unit concentrates on pupils using ready prepared scripts that are freely and easily available on the Internet.

These scripts are copied and pasted in to the HTML head and body of the web page. Most free JavaScript sites give instructions as to how they should be used.

Suggest to pupils that they use ONE JavaScript per web page otherwise they will conflict with each other. Pupils who wish to add more than one JavaScript to a page must be shown how to do this. The following is one of many Internet pages showing how this can be achieved.

http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/multiplejava2.shtml

Demonstrate how to copy and paste JavaScript into an existing web page.

The following example7a JavaScript code creates the current date.

Example7b is the result displayed in a web browser.

Pupils can visit Internet sites for 'Shareware or free JavaScript code'. The following are some suggestions:

http://javascript.internet.com/
http://www.scriptsearch.com/JavaScript/Scripts/
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/javascript/
http://www.javascriptworld.com/scripts/index.html
http://www.javascriptkit.com/cutpastejava.shtml

Use this time to show a variety of finished web sites.

Develop this by discussing:

• What they have learnt.
• The skills required to produce a web page.
• Writing in HTML.
• Web page elements.
• Types of commercial web sites.

Some pupils may wish to develop their web writing skills further.

Show them http://www.tucows.com this is a site offering a range of 'freeware' and 'shareware' programs.

As this is the final lesson, ask pupils to produce a revision sheet for this unit of work. Use homework7 to provide help.

You may also wish to prepare pupils for any assessment or the 'end of unit test'.

You may feel it appropriate to provide the homework sheet in electronic format for those pupils with computer access at home. Consideration should then be given to:

• How they would return the work and the style - electronic or printed
• Virus protection
• Authenticity of the work