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The issues presented to you in Contested Knowledges provide you with
a chance to explore how the contestation of knowledges occurs within a
whole range of contexts. We want you to explore one of these ideas in
depth and present your findings as a report for Assignment Three of your
assessment for this unit.
Your contribution
Your assessment for Assignment Three also needs to be developed as web
page(s) so that your ideas and discussion can be incorporated into the
Contested Knowledges website as a whole and contribute to the discussion
of that particular issue with students in future semesters.
Your website report should draw together all the ideas, arguments and
discussions you have on the contestation of different knowledge systems
on a particular issue and present it in a way that helps to get your understanding
across to the reader in an interesting and challenging way. Aim to incorporate
into the site:
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A discussion of your chosen issues using the four Key
Questions
The idea is to use these questions as the basis of your report and
then use your own creative flair and imagination to build your report
around your discussion.
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Links to other websites of value and interest to readers
of your report.
Aim to incorporate them into your discussion and explanations rather
than creating separate lists.
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Images that may be relevant to the discussion of your
chosen issue.
Make sure they link to your discussion in some way rather than being
there to make the site look good.
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Aids to navigation.
With a website, you sometimes have a number of pages. If you have
more than one page, ensure that your site is easily navigable and
that all the links work.
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Feel free to include more complicated graphics, animations,
audio or even video if you can and want to.
However, if you are not in a position to do this, feel free to stick
to the basics.
Downloading a Template
You can develop your website independently if you feel confident, or
you can download a template for your website report. Creating the website
is actually quite easy using Microsoft Word - just set the document out
the way you would like it and then save it as a web page (ie .htm or .html)
If you are using Internet Explorer as your browser you can save the images
associated with the template as well as the HTML document.
The template is based on the page design you see in this site already.
It can be edited with either:
- Internet Explorer, which allows you to edit a webpage
document using Microsoft Word. So once you download the template from
the link below, open the HTML document with Microsoft Word and add or
change it however you want.
- Microsoft Frontpage or Macromedia/Adobe Dreamweaver
or another HTML editor. Using a HTML editor gives you the ability
to make changes using HTML code if you are good at that, or you can
use the editor in the same way that you might use a word processor.
Procedure
- Create a folder into which you will save the template (and, perhaps,
the associated image files).
- Click (Left Click on a PC) on this template
link to open the document.
- In the browser menu bar go to File, then Save As, and save the template
in the folder you have created. In Internet Explorer you will have the
opportunity to choose whether to save the complete web page or just
the HTML document. If you have limited hard disk space and are happy
to work with a document lacking images this may be the best choice for
you. Netscape will only save the HTML document.
- If you are using Internet Explorer, you ought to
be able to open the document template again and by going to the File
menu, be able to select the option 'Edit with Microsoft Word'. Each
time you finish working on the document, save it and you can come back
to it again. Make sure that if you add any pictures, links or files
that these are placed in the 'image folder' for this website. You will
have downloaded this when you downloaded the template, or you will need
to create one and make sure you include it with your assignment when
it is handed in.
- When you have finished creating your document save it and post it
to your lecturer as an email attachment (you might find it easier if
you 'zip' the web page in the folder along with any images you use and
email the zipped file.)
For more information on creating web pages see Web
Tips, in the Office.
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