Step 1

The first day of classes or during your orientation, take each student’s picture and write down their names in order as you take each picture. (Note: faculty can borrow a digital camera from IT on every campus.) You can also have students take each other's pictures if you have the time.

Step 2

Put your photo disk in your floppy drive or connect your camera to your computer.

Step 3

Open FrontPage and open a new page: File – New – Page

Step 4

Choose Insert – Web Component... from the menu bar.

Step 5

Choose the Photo Gallery from the list of component types on the left. You will see a variety of layout options on the right.

Step 6

Click on the Layout option from the Photo Gallery window. Tip: Choose either the Horizontal or Vertical layout so that you can type in a caption.

Step 7

Click on the Pictures tab at the top of the window

Click on the Add button then choose Pictures from Files… and browse to the location of your photo files, for example, My Documents on your hard drive (C:) or the floppy disk in your A: drive.

Step 8

Select your first file. Note that you can adjust the size of the thumbnail for each photo. (A thumbnail is a miniature duplicate of the original image that is featured in a gallery. This feature allows for faster download speeds for users. If a user wants a closer look at an image he or she just double-clicks on the thumbnail and it expands to original size.) Normally you would have to create two versions of every photo yourself but lucky for you this feature of FrontPage does it automatically for you!

Step 9

Scroll down to the Caption box and type in some descriptive words. These will show up with the image in the finished gallery if you chose the correct layout. Note: If you did not choose a layout that displays the caption and description, you can always go back and switch to a different layout.

Step 10

Continue adding the rest of your images repeating the above steps, adding a caption and adjusting the thumbnail sizes as you add each picture. When you’ve added all your images for the gallery, click on the OK button at the bottom of the window.

Step 11

For in-class use:  Print out your photo gallery pages on any printer (you can use the color printer in any of the CITs).

Cut out each picture with caption and glue it to individual large index cards. Use these cards to quickly learn your students' names and keep track of attendance. Shuffle them each class and use them to call on students to answer questions. Note how well prepared the student was with an answer on the index card, which then informs your participation grade at the end of the semester.

Step 12

For online use:  Upload these photo gallery pictures into your WebCT course, your faculty web folder or your Pipeline course (depending on size). Remember if your gallery is over 1 mg. you will not be able to upload it to Pipeline due to size restrictions. If this is the case, one option is to upload your gallery into your faculty web folder and simply link to it from your Pipeline course.

Remember that you’ll need to upload all the image files that are linked from the gallery page. Always keep bandwidth in mind. Sometimes it’s better to create several pages of images that are smaller in size than one big page.