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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Today you are going to hate me. After I come around and grade your personal biography assignment. Then I'll show you the industry standard for web design: Dreamweaver. After working on hard coding, you'll wonder why I ever made you do it (to ease de-bugging). Then you will start working on a multi-page advertisement for your favorite car. This is not a repeat of your favorite car assignment, this is a business-oriented advertisement. You must complete the Car Ad web site (in its own folder) by Tuesday, November 3, 2009. This is the first assignment of the second term.

Mon., Oct. 12 through Fri., Oct. 16, 2009

Some people needed additional time to complete the personal biography web site assignment. We will use the rest of this week to do so. It is important that you understand how to set up a multi-page web site before we move into more advanced stuff next week. I will come around and grade your work on Tuesday, October 20, 2009.

Tues., Oct. 6 through Thur., Oct. 8, 2009

I will come around to grade your favorite outdoor activity web page today. That happens after I explain to you how to do a multi-page web site. Then you will start on your first web SITE by creating a multi-page web site about yourself. This is your personal biography web site assignment. You must complete your web site by the end of class on Monday, October 12, 2009.

Mon., Sept. 28 through Wed., Sept. 30, 2009

You have additional time to work on your favorite outdoor activity web page. This assignment requires you to use a table as the format for the whole page. This has been a difficult concept for some of you to grasp and I think you'll benefit from the additional time. You must complete your web page (.html) by the end of class on Monday, September 28, 2009.

Tues., Sept. 22 through Thur., Sept. 24, 2009

Finish up your favorite hobby or interest web page utilizing tables to create your assignment. If you have done so, you should start work on your favorite outdoor activity web page. This assignment requires you to use a table as the format for the whole page. I will show you in class how to embed a table inside another table to help you design your page. You must complete your web page (.html) by the end of class on Monday, September 28, 2009.

Friday, September 18, 2009

On Thursday, September 24th, Tooele County will be filming a promotional DVD and would like to showcase the most technologically advanced classroom in the district (mine). So, it is possible that your face will appear in this video. However, the only way this can happen is if you submit to me a Media Permission Form signed by your parents no later than Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 3:00PM. I MUST have this form on file for you to be filmed. If your parents don't give permission, or you forget to return the form, you will be sent to the library for the duration of the filming.

Work continues on your favorite hobby or interest web page utilizing tables to create your assignment. You must complete your web page (.html) by Friday, September 18, 2009. I will grade it at your computer.

Mon., Sept. 14 through Wed., Sept. 16, 2009

Monday was the first "Late-Start Monday". This time is set aside to give your teachers the opportunity to collaborate and develop better curriculum across content areas (I know, yawn). In class today, I will show you a better way to arrange items on a web page by utilizing tables. Following the lesson, I will come around to grade your favorite vehicle web page. You will start working on your favorite hobby or interest web page utilizing tables to create your assignment. You must complete your web page (.html) by Friday, September 18, 2009. I will grade it at your computer.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Work continues today on your web page for your favorite vehicle. Next week I'll grade it at your computer (yes, I gave you additional time to work on it this week).

Thur., Sept. 3 through Tue., Sept. 8, 2009

Demonstrations continue today with additional tags and attributes. They you will start on your first web page. This assignment you will create in a new folder that is inside of the folder you created for your work in the Documents folder on the computer. This assignment is to create a web page for your favorite vehicle. You must complete your web page (.html) by Tuesday, September 8, 2009. I will grade it at your computer. To assist you in your work, here is the Beginner's Guide to HTML, a list of tags, and a reference for colors.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

I demonstrated various HTML tags and attributes in class while you followed along on your computers so you would see how they work. The tags covered were html, head, title, body (with the bgcolor attribute), font (with size and color attributes), anchor (used to create links), and img.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Started a discussion of what is a text document, what is formatting, what is a markup language and how to recognize them by file extention. Then we learned what a 'tag' is in HTML (modifies a HTML document) and what an attribute is (modifies a tag). Finally we discussed the default structure of a HTML document where each page has a head and a body. And we also learned about opening and closing a tag.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

An integral part of web design and marketing is the ability to convey a message. This is usually done by some form of storytelling. When you are trying to sell a product or promote an event, for example, you need to be able to write convincingly. Web pages has text as well as images. Today's exercise is called "What's YOUR Story?" This is where you write about an event or defining moment in your life that tells something about you. This is not an autobiography, we don't have time to hear about your whole life. We just want a story that tells something about you. Your story should be written in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or some other word processor. It should be at least one page single spaced and be emailed to rathke@teacher.com by the beginning of class on Friday, August 28, 2009.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Welcome to the first day of class. Today you will receive my disclosure, which is due back to me next time we meet or you will not have access to the computers. And you will forfeit points since this is your first assignment. I will discuss what my expectations are and what the rules in my classroom will be this year. Your disclosure is due back to me signed by you and a parent/guardian by Friday, August 28, 2009.