A stitching template has been created for students who are interested in presenting their work in a web page. It is based on the Gibbs model of reflective writing and has been made for the Introduction to Online Communication & Technology module, although the template could be used for any module.

The starting point (critical incident) was a student's draft stitching that used an alternative to the usual essay format. Constructive criticism showed that the layout was complicated to get right in a Word document, although I could see the possibility for presenting as a web page. A promising tool seemed to be the KEEP toolkit, which is based on Plone technology, supported by the Carnegie Foundation, and can be fun in a geeky kind of way. It is free. I first constructed a test page, using the draft stitching. The next step was to use what I had discovered about creating a useful layout to make a template.
http://www.cfkeep.org/users/baltr/stitching

I posted both the test page and the template to the learning community in FirstClass. The web page (snapshot) could be downloaded as an archive. More experienced web page creators could use the archive (zip) as a template, less experienced users would find it easier to work in a KEEP account, and complete beginners would probably want to throw a brick at me :-)

Initial responses have shown me that some students are excited enough to consider trying out the Keep toolkit. I think I'll see if I can post the html code into a blog entry - for this I think I will use one of my other blogs.