Camp Internet Field Report Checklist
		How to Become A Good Online Reporter
	Preparation
	1	Open a new Word document and save it with a name of your choice. Use this document
		to enter the text for your field report using spell check as a tool, and using a series
		of …………… to create paragraph breaks. Minimum words is 100 per location.
		Include all field trip destinations related to your pre-session training (aver. 3).
	2	Go to http://www.rain.org/~camp, log in, (or http://www.campinternet.net/~yourlogin) and select one
		.jpg image file for each destination you are reporting on - one image only per destination to make
		best use of the Field Report viewer's bandwidth. Click on the file name, when the image opens,
		highlight its address in the browser's URL bar, click on EDIT, click on COPY.
	3	Return to your text document, paste in the full URL including the http:// and full address.
		Make certain no punctuation or character in the report text touches the URL once pasted
		into your field report document - i.e. there must be at least one blank space on both ends
		of the URL after it is pasted into the body of the report. This image, and all others, must be
		no larger than 300x300 pixels (you can determine this by right clicking on the image, click
		on PROPERTIES and look for the pixel measurement -  i.e. 230x145)
	4	Use an Internet search engine ( search.com for example) and locate the web address of the
		agencies you visited and/or a link in Camp Internet that pertains to the subject of your report.
		Highlight URL, click on EDIT, click on COPY and then return to your Field Report word document.
		Decide where you wish to place your link or links to create the URL code that will result in
		a hot link button once posted in the Field Report Center. EDIT / PASTE the full URL into your
		Word doc where the link is desired to help add informative dimension to the report.
		Minimum additions to text: one under-300x300 pixel image per destination, one agency web site
		link per destination, and one Camp link to a related resource per location visited.
	5	Test your work. Read it, click on the links. Make sure the concept is well crafted, the details
		are provided, and that you have included a Latitude and Longitude for each location you
		are featuring. Click on the hot link URLs (which will not say BUTTON until posted into the
		Field Report Center) and make sure you have your links to web resources and to one image
		per location visited where you think they are the most effective in the text.
	6	Once you are satisfied that you have a finished product, save it. Then highlight and COPY all of it.
	Installation
	7	Now go to the Field Report Center and put you name and school name in the YOUR HANDLE
		box. In the large empty message box, PASTE in your report. Double check to make sure all of the
		URL have a space on either end, that you have sufficient ………….. spacing between concepts,
		and that your name is in the YOUR HANDLE box. You can make additional changes here, but
		once it is posted to the Center, you will no longer be able to make changes. This is your
		final edit. Then click on CHAT to post to the Field Report Center.
	8	You can now be a viewer of your own work. Read it, follow the links, look at the images, consider
		what is successful about your presentation, what you would like to try differently in your next
		report, and if you fully described the locations and experiences so that it tells an interesting story
		for other readers. Also read one another's postings and learn from one another's efforts.
	Review
	9	Trouble shooting - if your picture or hot link button do not appear, but instead a portion of the
		intended URL shows up in the body of the test once posted, this is because the URL was not
		correct. It may not have had an http:// in front, it may have been touching another word or
		punctuation, or be spelled wrong. Go back to your Word doc, make the corrections, and re-post.
	10	When your posting is successful, to finish, go back to your Word document.  If you made any
		changes when posting, also make the same changes in your Word doc master.
		Save it in a folder easy to find.         You are now a successful Field Report Writer !