year7unit2webdesign

=Year 7 Unit 2 Explanation=

The second Unit for year 7 is also an enjoyable Unit. It involves a look at websites.

There are a number of different objectives behind this Unit, they include
 * An understanding of their favorite websites and why the students like them.
 * An appreciation of just how crazy some of the web sites on the web are.
 * An ability to critically look at the design of a website
 * To realise that different website have different audiences in mind and that this guides the design process
 * To learn a number of specific skills to enable the students to design and create their own website.
 * To introduce the students to a new graphics package fireworks.

The specific tasks they will need to be able to do to complete this unit are > New words for 2011
 * To mange their ICT folder
 * To save from the internet a number of pictures that they will need in learning web design
 * To learn the following web design skills. Some students will learn more but at the minimum they should learn and fully understand the following skills.
 * Site Managment
 * Page saving
 * Page titling
 * Table insert
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Table manipulation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Text insert
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Text manipulation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Text centering
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Picture insert
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Picture manipulation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Picture centering
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Body centering
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Design view
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Code view
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Browser view
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Split viev

What to see on your childs Wiki page
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Your child should have uploaded 7 files to their wiki in order to fully complete this Unit
 * 1) A word file explaining their favorite website and why they like it. 10 lines
 * 2) A word file on a crazy website of their choice. 10 lines
 * 3) A presentation file on a really badly designed web site. 5 slides
 * 4) A screen shot of the simpson pictures they have downloaded from the internet. This is a word file.
 * 5) A screen shot of the Simpsons website they created.
 * 6) A plan of a website of their own chosing that they are going to make.
 * 7) An evaluation of their work done in PowerPoint. All students will give a presentation in class on what they have investigated/created/learned in this Unit. (Parents, please ask to see this presentation at home)