Student skills learned from the WWW range from simple information retrieval to advanced research techniques focusing on analysis and evaluation. To fully participate in WWW activities, teachers, students and administrators are creating web sites to showcase classes, projects, student's work and schools. Through the web site, Web Publishing in the Twinkling of an Eye, web publishers locate templates, hints, graphics sites and suggestions to create their own web sites. Since the school-developed material is available for anyone with Internet access, parents, grandparents, other relatives and friends can view classroom activities and student products.
Twinkling is the entry into a world filled with tips, tricks and assistance in developing web sites.
A series of examples are provided describing the wide variety of pages that might be included in a personal, classroom or school web site. In terms of instructional support, Twinkling offers examples of web sites to assist web publishers in designing effective and eye-catching sites that enhance instruction. Instructional web pages can be used as introductory material, a lesson or lesson review. Sample instructional pages have also been designed to give teachers models of different types of web sites to help in the design and development of their own pages. Students can also become web publishers by sharing information and creating projects for the WWW that showcase their research activities, favorite web sites and class activities.