Disseminating Environmental Education: How to make a website

Matt Maltby

My Project• The focus of my I/S cohort, SP3, is “Global

Citizenship and Sustainable Development”• Many students joined thinking that there would be

a strong environmental component• However, very little was discussed…

My Project• Create a resource

based website that links specifically the issues of Global Citizenship with environmental links.

• Hand-picked and reviewed content, to be given to this class and future classes.

Possible Avenues

• Popular free website creation pages are largely structured like a blog, but in practice resemble “normal” websites in their final product

Recommended Avenue

• Easiest to customize: wordpress.com• Go to wordpress.com and sign up • Note: wordpress.org is for actual websites,

which means that you must purchase a domain name from a separate entity. They're basically the same.

Step By Step

• Sign up for an account• Click 'create new blog' to set up your website

Step by Step• Can choose your website name

Step By Step• After an email confirmation, click on dashboard, and

go to 'appearance and themes, and you can choose the entire aesthetic basis for your site.

Appearence• Go into dashboard and go to appearance and

themes, and you can choose the entire aesthetic basis for your site.

Appearence• Once you are happy with that, go to

'customize' in 'themes' to change the title/tagline, color scheme, background/header photos

Making Categories• Almost done! Now you need categories. Go to

appearances and menu and create a new menu, importing your categories.

Making Categories• Then create your categories in order to

categorize your content. You can even make subcategories!

Benefits and Classroom Applications

• Can use a shared account and have class collaborations (similar to the way Google docs functions)

• Requires very little time for students to produce an assignment in website form

• Cross-curricular• Provides transferable skills for students to use

in their future

Don’t be afraid…