Navigating the Site

Email  - You will need an email account to participate in this lesson. If you do not have an account or if you wish to preserve the privacy of your current account you may open a free Hotmail account accessible from any Internet capable computer by going to the main Hotmail Web Site and selecting "New User? Sign up now!" option in the top right corner of the page. Answer the questions asked. Don't worry,  if you do not fill it in correctly it will prompt you for more information. If the name you wish to use has been taken it will offer you alternatives. Remember, you do not have to select any of their subscriptions. When your account is created it will immediately take you to your new "in-box". The "Help" option will answer questions about Hotmail.

Once done, send me your email address and your initial thoughts on haiku from the beginning of the lesson. Use the "teacher email" link at the top of the page to email me or type my email address in the "To:" box of your Hotmail Compose Mail option.  My email address is franticpansy@cox.net

Links - At the top of the page you will see six symbols.  Left clicking with your mouse on a symbol will take you to the corresponding page, allowing you to move to the major aspects of the lesson more easily. As you move your mouse over the links, the one you are currently on will change color to remind you where your mouse is.  These options will appear on every page of the lesson.
 
 

Symbol	Where It Takes You
	Home will take you to the first page of the site.
	History of Haiku will take you to a basic explanation of "Where haiku came from."
	Elements of Haiku will take you to the lesson on "What characteristics make a haiku a haiku."
	Compose Haiku will take you to the lesson on "How to write haiku"
	Student Haiku will take you to the page dedicated to your compositions - our class haiku site.
	Student Email will give you email addresses for everyone in the class.
	Teacher Email will send me an email.

Back This symbol takes you back to the preceding page of the lesson.	Home This symbol takes you to the home page of the lesson..	Next This symbol takes you to the next page of the lesson.

In the lesson you will encounter links that take you to other haiku sites elsewhere on the web. The links contained in this lesson follow the typical blue underlined word or phrase that change to red once they have been activated. Since the linked pages were not created as part of this lesson they may not follow that patter. Also, you may not see the familiar links at the top and bottom of those pages. If this is the case, to return to this lesson use your browser's "Back" button.

Finally, at the bottom of the "Home" Page you will see five additional links:
 

For anyone who may be interested, these links tell you how this lesson came to be. The biography is about me, the concept map was the prewriting or brainstorming of the lesson, the design document is the textual blueprint of the lesson,  the flowchart determined the order of the lesson web pages and the streamlined and detailed storyboards helped to plan out the shape of the web pages.
 
 
 

On a side note, the symbols you see are Kanji characters for "home", "story", "character", "write", "haiku", "student", and "teacher".  Kanji is a method of Japanese writing in which each character or character set symbolizes its own unique word. It is the traditional language of haiku because the pictures within the characters add to the meaning of the poem. See how, in this example, the kanji characters appear beside the pen and ink drawing of the tree? If you look back on the home page you will see the kanji characters in the pictures on the previous page as well. They are haiku, too!