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-- 8 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, July 13, 1999 "Scugog"s Community Newspaper of Choice" By Jeff Mitchell Port Perry Star Forget about double-spaced writing paper, staples and paste, and brightly-coloured binders; the future of school projects is on the world wide web. That's the word from two enterprising Scugog students, a brother and sister who earned 'extra marks this past year by creating web pages to deliver their messages to class mates. Caitlin Krempowich, 13, and her 12-year-old brother Matthew, impressed teachers and fellow students at S.A. Cawker Public School in Port Perry with their fresh take on school assignments. Caitlin delivered an essay on Nelson Mandela for an English assign- ment, and supplemented it by creating a web page on which she posted a variety of pictures and pieces of information on the South African president. Matthew showed his class- mates the web page he assem- bled for his Grade 6 science project on the concept of light years, then encouraged them to print out any information they liked from the site. He was aided in his effort by Caitlin, who taught herself to assemble web sites using infor- mation she gleaned from man- uals and the internet. "I was bored with writing it all out, and I wanted to find a new way," said Caitlin in explaining her novel approach Web presents new o to the Black History Month assignment. "I pretty much learned as I went along, because I didn't know much about it," she said, holding up a copy of a book entitled Dummies 101: Creating Web Pages. When Matthew asked for help with a page for his astron- omy project, Caitlin was happy to help. Together they spent hours finding the information they needed both from texts and on the internet, then went through the complicated and sometimes tedious process of building the site, complete with text and graphics. The result was a project that blew away his classmates and earned Matthew top marks for initiative and presentation, said science teacher Jim Justynski. "I was just so impressed after he presented it to the class," said Mr. Justynski, who said the other kids in the class were enthralled by Matthew's presentation. "I think they learn a lot bet- ter with this hands-on type of project," he said. "It shows you the whole new range of opportunities open to them; we should encourage that." In fact, over the summer, the majority of the terminals at S.A. Cawker's computer centre will be going on-line, allowing students more access to the internet and its possibilities. BEY oh pportunities f or students y Matthew and Caitlin realize they won't be able to build web sites for every school project -assigned them, but noted there are numerous possibilities to Matthew and Caitlin Krempowich display the web site they assembled this year for Matthew's Grade 6 science project to teach- ers Jim Justynski and Andrea Dickie. The mates. use their new-found knowledge in the future. They're even tak- Ing an entrepreneurial turn, and will offer local businesses assistance establishing web > NN OR ~ 20) AA ("<4 July 7. 1999 edition. Thanks again Andy Faulkes |) - We would like to thank the Port Perry Star for a job well done in design set-up, colours and placement of our ads! Just to let you know, we are "Still Getting Response" from our ad placed in the Weekend Star back in April 23, 1999 | A 0 Cl 1511 Reach Road, Unit 2 ¢ Port Perry » Ontario » LL 1B2 Telephone: (905) 985-8307 : Obviously, due to this overwhelming success and the popularity of the Money Saving coupons we offered. we will be using this format for future ads to come. Please book the same size & colours into your next "Wheels" edition for Friday, July 16. ¢/0 Scugog Transmission 5 CRAFT SHOW July 17th & 18th Sat. 10am-5pm & Sun. 10am - 4pm BROOKLIN MEMORIAL ARENA 67 WINCHESTER RD. E., BROOKLIN Durham Region's Largest & Best Authentic Country Craft Show Featuring Ontario's Top Exhibitors Folk Art, Woodworking, Quilts, Jewellery, Clothing, Candles, Bears, Dolls, Stained Glass, Florals, Reproduction Fumiture & so much morel Door prizes and Free Parking N TIME STANDS STILL Productions FREE bear ono 4 SN \ NN N \ NEAT NN ' NNN WN WN N NNN Na NANNNNANS SR 3 NNN NN J a -- - S.A. Cawker students chose the web as an innovative method of presenting their school assignments to teachers and class sites and e-mail addresses. If you'd like to talk to them about it, you can call them at 985-8375, or e-mail them at catk@earthlink.net. (905) 434-5531 Admission -- $4.00 Seniors -- $3.00 Children under 10 ' ! | \ ! |