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Help. My webpage looks perfect when it is located on my own computer, but when I FTPed it to the server some of the images didn't show up. What is wrong? |
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most common cause of this problem is that the image's filename used
in the HTML code for the webpage is different than the image's actual
filename.
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Hi, me and my parters want to go in this science fair. We have just finished our science fair and would like to get a registration form. Our teacher does not want to fill out one from to send us to this science fair. |
Any of your other teachers or even the principal may register if your science teacher is not interested. If you cannot find a teacher or administrator (principal etc.) to register, then have one of your parents send me an email, stating that you wish to register. We must have a teacher register OR a parent send an email asking that your team be registered.
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The virtual fair sounds very interesting to me and certainly sounds like something we could take advantage of. Running a regional fair here is becoming increasingly difficult due to funding, distance, etc. Would students be able to advance to the CWSF from this fair and if so, how many?
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Unfortunately, the Canada Wide Virtual Science Fair (VSF) is not associated
with the CWSF. Therefore winners of the VSF do not advance to the CWSF.
Eventually we hope to have regional judging and awards, with the winners advancing to national finals. This would still likely be virtual, with
some live video conferencing between teams and judges. This will not be in place for 2007.
The VSF differs a bit from the CWSF. The emphasis of the VSF is a bit more
on participation and creative use of computer/Internet technology rather
than on a very high level of science. (Although often the big winners exhibit both a high level of science and a good use of computer/Internet
technology.)
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I'm looking for a copy of the judges scoresheet so that the students can see how they will be evaluated. |
We do not use a traditional judging score sheet. For the first couple of years I tried using a traditional numeric (%) scoring system, but found that it really didn't work well.
Rather, we go through a number of sorting and ranking steps trying to form 5 groups of projects from best group to worst group. This sorting is done based on the project's level of compliance with the Website and Science Content Checklists and items mentioned in the Do's and Don'ts
After an initial sort to remove incomplete etc. projects, the projects are sorted and ranked by independent judges. After the results are collated the best projects pass through another sorting and ranking.
Eventually, we arrive at a sorting of the projects based on their quality. All the projects of a particular group tend to get the same prize. A few exceptional projects may get an additional prize. (Last year the extra prizes were HP products). Of course the 4 grade groupings are dealt with separately. So to make a long story short, try to comply with as many of the Checklist and Do's and Don'ts as possible.
I usually recommend reviewing the projects from last year Summa Cum Laude (the best) to Cum Virtute (the least) BUT since we have had some problems with last years server some of these project may not display properly until the old server issue is resolved, but they may still be worth a look.
Remember an attractive, engaging website is important.
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I have done my project using PowerPoint. How do I get it on the project server? |
Select "Save as Web Page" from the PP File menu.
Name the page index.htm and click Save. (note the saving location)
A file named index.htm and a folder named index_files will be created. Use an FTP program such as Filezilla or WS-FTP to upload both the file and folder created. That is all there is to the process.
Note: This procedure may vary with different versions of PP.
Note: Some features of the PP presentation such as transitions may not work on the web page version.
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