This is an activity to allow you to become familiar with you can use the app WinkSite to generate a mobile website quickly and easily. This is a longer version if you need students to understand a little ore about editing their website.

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Using WinkSite to create a mobile website
I. This is an activity that allows you to become familiar with how WinkSite
generates a mobile website quickly and easily.
II. The majority of your work happens before you start editing with Winksite. You
should have all of your images, video links, text and pages organized in a digital
folder and in a Word document so you can copy and paste information into the
WinkSite forms. In this tutorial we will use Niagara Falls as our topic.
III. We will use nature, history and tourism as the categories or Channels for our
website development.
IV. The website visual representation, shown here, is the structure that we will
follow to generate this website.
Steps
1. Go to the web address http://winksite.com
2. Sign up and log in

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3. On the Dashboard, click on the Create Site button
4. The Create a Mobile Site form appears
5. Enter a title
6. Complete the URL
7. Paste a short description of your web site
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This is an overview of Niagara Falls. It provides viewers with details about
important aspects of the area and many specifics about tourism.
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8. Input the Homepage information including the title, an optional subtitle and the
text content that will appear on the homepage
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Niagara Falls
Natural Tourism
Niagara Falls is famed for its beauty and its valuable source of hydroelectric power.
Balancing recreational, commercial, and industrial uses has been a challenge for the
stewards of the falls since the 19th
century.
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9. Insert Channel Names (categories)
10. Choose a few ready-made apps. (links & Guestbook)
11. Choose the Category travel
12. Click on the Build Site button

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13. A site preview screen appears
14. Go to Google.com
15. Locate an image of Niagara Falls
16. Download it to your hard drive/device
17. In the Upload Header Image section, browse for the image file
18. Click on the Open button

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19. Click on the Upload button
20. Note the Preview changes
21. Click on the Save button
22. The Main Menu page appears
23. Focus on the Content Channels section
24. Click on the Edit Channel option beside the Nature Channel
25. The Edit Content Channel page appears

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26. Ensure that the status is set to ON
27. Choose this This channel will contain pages.
28. Paste this text information in the Content text box
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The features that became Niagara Falls were created by the Wisconsin glaciation
about 10,000 years ago. The same forces also created the North American Great
Lakes and the Niagara River. All were dug by a continental ice sheet that drove
through the area, deepening some river channels to form lakes, and damming
others with debris. Scientists argue there is an old valley, St David's Buried Gorge,
buried by glacial drift, at the approximate location of the present Welland Canal.
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29. Click on the Save button
30. Click on the Return to Main Menu link
31. Click on the Edit Channel option beside the History Channel
32. The Edit Content Channel page appears

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33. Type in a Title “History”, turn the status to ON
34. Choose this This channel will contain pages.
35. Paste the text information in the Content text box
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A number of figures have been suggested as first circulating an eyewitness
description of Niagara Falls. The Frenchman Samuel de Champlain visited the area
as early as 1604 during his exploration of Canada, and members of his party
reported to him the spectacular waterfalls, which he described in his journals. The
Finnish-Swedish naturalist Pehr Kalm explored the area in the early 18th century
and is credited with the first scientific description of the falls. The consensus
honoree for the first description is the Belgian missionary Louis Hennepin, who
observed and described the falls in 1677, earlier than Kalm, after traveling with
the explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, thus bringing the falls to the
attention of Europeans. Further complicating matters, there is credible evidence
the French Jesuit missionary Paul Ragueneau visited the falls some 35 years
before Hennepin's visit, while working among the Huron First Nation in Canada.
Jean de Brébeuf also may have visited the falls, while spending time with the
Neutral Nation.
In 1762, Captain Thomas Davies, a British Army officer and artist, surveyed the
area and painted the watercolor, An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara,
the first eyewitness painting of the falls.
During the 19th century, tourism became popular, and by mid-century, it was the
area's main industry. Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of Vice President Aaron
Burr and her husband Joseph Alston, were the first recorded couple to
honeymoon there in 1801. Napoleon Bonaparte's brother Jérôme visited with his
bride in the early 19th century.
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36.Click on the Save button
• What is the problem? There is a 1000-character limit in text boxes

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37. Delete 600 characters from the end of the text.
38. Click on the Return to Main Menu link
39. Click on the Edit Channel option beside the Tourism Channel
40. The Edit Content Channel page appears
41. Ensure the title is “Tourism”, turn the status to ON
42. Choose this This channel will contain pages.
43. Paste the text information in the Content text box
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Peak visitor traffic occurs in the summertime, when Niagara Falls are both a daytime
and evening attraction. From the Canadian side, floodlights illuminate both sides of
the falls for several hours after dark (until midnight). The number of visitors in 2007
was expected to total 20 million, and by 2009 the annual rate was expected to top 28
million tourists.
The oldest and best known tourist attraction at Niagara Falls is the Maid of the Mist
boat cruise, named for an ancient Ongiara Indian mythical character, which has
carried passengers into the rapids immediately below the falls since 1846. Cruise
boats operate from boat docks on both sides of the falls, with the Maid of the Mist
operating from the American side and Hornblower Cruises from the Canadian side.
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44. Click on the Save button
45.Note that you are in the Channel Tourism Pages
46. Click on the Add Page link
47. The Add Page page appears
48. Input the Page Title Canadian Falls
49.Paste the text information in the Content text box
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On the Canadian side, Queen Victoria Park features manicured gardens, platforms
offering views of both the American and Horseshoe Falls, and underground walkways
leading into observation rooms that yield the illusion of being within the falling
waters. The observation deck of the nearby Skylon Tower offers the highest view of
the falls, and in the opposite direction gives views as far as Toronto. Along with the
Minolta Tower (formerly the Seagrams Tower and the Konica Minolta Tower, and
since 2010 called the Tower Hotel), it is one of two towers in Canada with a view of
the falls.
Along the Niagara River, the Niagara River Recreational Trail runs 35 miles (56 km)
from Fort Erie to Fort George, and includes many historical sites from the War of
1812.
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50. Click on the Save button
51. Click on the Add Page link
52. The Add Page page appears
53. Input the Page Title American Falls
54.Paste the text information in the Content text box
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From the U.S. side, the American Falls can be viewed from walkways along Prospect
Point Park, which also features the Prospect Point Observation Tower and a boat
dock for the Maid of the Mist. Goat Island offers more views of the falls and is
accessible by foot and automobile traffic by bridge above the American Falls. From
Goat Island, the Cave of the Winds is accessible by elevator and leads hikers to a
point beneath Bridal Veil Falls. Also on Goat Island are the Three Sisters Islands, the
Power Portal where a huge statue of Nikola Tesla (the inventor whose patents for the
AC induction motor and other devices for AC power transmission helped make the
harnessing of the falls possible) can be seen, and a walking path that enables views of
the rapids, the Niagara River, the gorge, and all of the falls. Most of these attractions
lie within the Niagara Falls State Park.
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55. Click on the Save button
56. Click on the Add Page link
57. The Add Page page appears
58. Input the Page Title The Future
59. Paste the text information in the Content text box
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The enormous energy of Niagara Falls has long been recognized as a potential
source of power. The first known effort to harness the waters was in 1759, when
Daniel Joncaire built a small canal above the falls to power his sawmill. Augustus
and Peter Porter purchased this area and all of American Falls in 1805 from the

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New York state government, and enlarged the original canal to provide hydraulic
power for their gristmill and tannery. In 1853, the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power
and Mining Company was chartered, which eventually constructed the canals that
would be used to generate electricity. In 1881, under the leadership of Jacob F.
Schoellkopf, the Niagara River's first hydroelectric generating station was built.
The water fell 86 feet (26 m) and generated direct current electricity, which ran
the machinery of local mills and lit up some of the village streets.
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60. Click on the Save button
61. Note that you are still in the Channel Tourism
62. Click on the edit link beside Canadian Falls
63. In the media block paste this link https://youtu.be/wB6gHz8XHDI
64. Click on the Save button
65. Click on the Return to Main Menu button
66. Click on the View Site button

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67. There are two navigation options
a. hamburger menu
b. text menu
c. Breadcrumb menu
68. Use these to try the links to see
how your site navigation works

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69. To refine your website, Click on the Dashboard link
70. Click on the Edit Site button beside your web project
71. On the left column of the Edit Site page are a variety of setting options
72. To remove the omnipresent header Image, click on the Page Design: Edit link
73. Click on the Remove header image link
74. Specific images can now be placed on individual pages

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75. Click on the Save button
76. Click on the Edit Homepage link
77. Using Google, locate a picture of Niagara Falls, download it to your hard drive
78. Click on the Browse… button
79. Locate the file, click Open, click Upload
80. Click on the Save button
81. To add an image to a Channel page, click on Edit Channel
82. Paste an image URL in the Media block
https://www.niagarafallstourism.com/site/assets/files/2631/skylon_tower_im
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83. Click on the Save button
84. Click on the Return to Main Menu button
85. Click on the View Site button
86. From the main page, click on the Nature link
87. Click on the Dashboard link
88. Click Edit website
89. In the Community & Collaboration Channels section, select Add Link
90. Enter the title, The Real Niagara Falls
91. Paste the URL https://www.niagarafallstourism.com
92. Click on the Save button
93. There are many more features, I think we have done enough

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WinkSite Activity Text
Niagara Falls
niagarafalls
This is an overview of Niagara Falls. It provides viewers with details about important
aspects of the area and many specifics about tourism.
Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls is famed for its beauty and its valuable source of hydroelectric power.
Balancing recreational, commercial, and industrial uses has been a challenge for the
stewards of the falls since the 19th
century.
Nature
History
Tourism
The features that became Niagara Falls were created by the Wisconsin glaciation
about 10,000 years ago. The same forces also created the North American Great
Lakes and the Niagara River. All were dug by a continental ice sheet that drove
through the area, deepening some river channels to form lakes, and damming others
with debris. Scientists argue there is an old valley, St David's Buried Gorge, buried by
glacial drift, at the approximate location of the present Welland Canal.
When the ice melted, the upper Great Lakes emptied into the Niagara River, which
followed the rearranged topography across the Niagara Escarpment. In time, the
river cut a gorge through the north-facing cliff, or cuesta. Because of the interactions
of three major rock formations, the rocky bed did not erode evenly. The top rock
formation was composed of erosion-resistant limestone and Lockport dolostone.
----------history---------------------
A number of figures have been suggested as first circulating an eyewitness
description of Niagara Falls. The Frenchman Samuel de Champlain visited the area as

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early as 1604 during his exploration of Canada, and members of his party reported to
him the spectacular waterfalls, which he described in his journals. The Finnish-
Swedish naturalist Pehr Kalm explored the area in the early 18th century and is
credited with the first scientific description of the falls. The consensus honoree for
the first description is the Belgian missionary Louis Hennepin, who observed and
described the falls in 1677, earlier than Kalm, after traveling with the explorer René-
Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, thus bringing the falls to the attention of
Europeans. Further complicating matters, there is credible evidence the French Jesuit
missionary Paul Ragueneau visited the falls some 35 years before Hennepin's visit,
while working among the Huron First Nation in Canada. Jean de Brébeuf also may
have visited the falls, while spending time with the Neutral Nation.
In 1762, Captain Thomas Davies, a British Army officer and artist, surveyed the area
and painted the watercolor, An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara, the first
eyewitness painting of the falls.
During the 19th century, tourism became popular, and by mid-century, it was the
area's main industry. Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of Vice President Aaron Burr
and her husband Joseph Alston, were the first recorded couple to honeymoon there
in 1801. Napoleon Bonaparte's brother Jérôme visited with his bride in the early 19th
century.
--------------tourism------------
Peak visitor traffic occurs in the summertime, when Niagara Falls are both a daytime
and evening attraction. From the Canadian side, floodlights illuminate both sides of
the falls for several hours after dark (until midnight). The number of visitors in 2007
was expected to total 20 million, and by 2009 the annual rate was expected to top 28
million tourists.
The oldest and best known tourist attraction at Niagara Falls is the Maid of the Mist
boat cruise, named for an ancient Ongiara Indian mythical character, which has
carried passengers into the rapids immediately below the falls since 1846. Cruise
boats operate from boat docks on both sides of the falls, with the Maid of the Mist
operating from the American side and Hornblower Cruises from the Canadian side.
------Canadian Side-------
On the Canadian side, Queen Victoria Park features manicured gardens, platforms

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offering views of both the American and Horseshoe Falls, and underground walkways
leading into observation rooms that yield the illusion of being within the falling
waters. The observation deck of the nearby Skylon Tower offers the highest view of
the falls, and in the opposite direction gives views as far as Toronto. Along with the
Minolta Tower (formerly the Seagrams Tower and the Konica Minolta Tower, and
since 2010 called the Tower Hotel), it is one of two towers in Canada with a view of
the falls.
Along the Niagara River, the Niagara River Recreational Trail runs 35 miles (56 km)
from Fort Erie to Fort George, and includes many historical sites from the War of
1812.
-----American Side-------
From the U.S. side, the American Falls can be viewed from walkways along Prospect
Point Park, which also features the Prospect Point Observation Tower and a boat
dock for the Maid of the Mist. Goat Island offers more views of the falls and is
accessible by foot and automobile traffic by bridge above the American Falls. From
Goat Island, the Cave of the Winds is accessible by elevator and leads hikers to a
point beneath Bridal Veil Falls. Also on Goat Island are the Three Sisters Islands, the
Power Portal where a huge statue of Nikola Tesla (the inventor whose patents for the
AC induction motor and other devices for AC power transmission helped make the
harnessing of the falls possible) can be seen, and a walking path that enables views of
the rapids, the Niagara River, the gorge, and all of the falls. Most of these attractions
lie within the Niagara Falls State Park.
------The Future-----
The enormous energy of Niagara Falls has long been recognized as a potential source
of power. The first known effort to harness the waters was in 1759, when Daniel
Joncaire built a small canal above the falls to power his sawmill. Augustus and Peter
Porter purchased this area and all of American Falls in 1805 from the New York state
government, and enlarged the original canal to provide hydraulic power for their
gristmill and tannery. In 1853, the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Mining
Company was chartered, which eventually constructed the canals that would be used
to generate electricity. In 1881, under the leadership of Jacob F. Schoellkopf, the
Niagara River's first hydroelectric generating station was built. The water fell 86 feet
(26 m) and generated direct current electricity, which ran the machinery of local mills
and lit up some of the village streets.