Camp Internet Field Report Checklist
	How to Become A Good Online Reporter
Teachers
	First, select the purpose of the class field trip, its location, date and time.
	Aim for at least 2-3 destiantions or challenges that then have 4-6 questions each for example.
	When those factors are decided upon, select the 6-12 questions that will spur student discoveries.
	Combine multi-subject learning, GPS, science observations, historical information gathering,
	art documentation, digital photographs, video interviews, as appropriate.
	You are welcome to ue the Mission GPSible document master to design your own field study,
	or create your own format. Either way, provide students with their challegnes in writing.
	You may want students to work individually, or in teams.
	Field reports, for maximum benefit, will ideally be posted by each student individually and may use
	shared adta gahtered by fellow team members.
	Encourage parent involvement as possible. Field trips can also be done on weekends by families.
	Once the data nad resrouces are gathered, return to the computers and proceed.
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. Create a new paragraph for each
	destination or challenge. If each section is long, use ….. to space out concepts comfortably.
	4-5 grade should aim for 100 words at a minimum. 6-8th grade 150-200 words, 9th-12th over 250.
	These are total word counts - not per destination or challenge. Example, a 5th grader may have
	3 destinations or challenges, 4 questions to answer at each, and will write 3 paragraphs that have
	an average of 50 words, per destination or challenge, to record the required information.
	Total of entire word document would then be 150 words, in 3 paragraphs of 50 each.
2	If you have posted digital images online, or are using Camp-provided images, or partner agency
	provided images (must be 250x250 pixel or smaller), copy that image's URL into the document with
	one .jpg image for each destination you are reporting on - one image only per destination to make
	best use of the Field Report viewer's bandwidth. If using images on the Camp server in an html folder
	folder (www.campinternet.net/~camp or www.campinternet.net/~lausd for example) - click on the
	file name in the directory and, when the image opens,  highlight its address in the browser's URL bar,
	click on EDIT, click on COPY. (To learn what the pixels are, right click the image, click on
	PROPERTIES and read the pixel ie 280x120 )
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
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.
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 one entry at a time. Double check to make sure
	all 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. Post each paragraph per destination or challenge seperately.
	Be sure your name and school remains in the YOUR HANDLE box for each posting.
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 !