This course is for students interested in developing web-design and leadership skills. Students develop their organizational and presentation skills through a series of web-design projects ranging from the creation of a personal web page to complete site design for outside clients. Additionally, students will apply universal design strategies to promote access for everyone. Through project-based learning, students develop skills in problem solving, presentation, research and critical thinking.
Students will learn basic HTML and CSS skills, as they design web pages utilizing web standards. Throughout the course students will work in various teams to develop their sites, including interactive web sites for school and community clients. Each group will take their clients through the entire web-development process, including project plan, design mock-up, development, test and launch.
Course Goals
- Leadership
- Takes initiative
- Behaves professionally
- Collaborates with teammates
- Persuades others
- Problem-solving
- Plans effectively
- Develops creative ideas and approaches
- Applies technical skills
- Executes solutions
- Communication
- Demonstrates understanding of technical content
- Possesses clarity in written communication
- Provides audience-appropriate presentation content
- Presents effectively
Grading Policy
Projects are the major form of assessment in this course. This is your opportunity to familiarize yourself with new material. For each assignment you are required to submit electronically your file(s) on or before the given due-date. Scoring of projects will be detailed in each separate assignment.
Exercises will also occur throughout each quarter. These assignments will be smaller in scale, and not require a computer therefore they must be submitted on time unless there is a valid excuse.
Each quarter projects will be approximately 70% of the grade, exercises will be 30% of the grade. Exact quarter percentages may change based on the number and type of assignments given each quarter.
Classroom Policies
All school policies apply to the classroom. In addition, No food or drinks are to be brought into the computer lab.
Consideration for others and behavior in accordance with the rules of the school must guide personal conduct in both the classroom and the computer lab. In particular, violation of computer usage guidelines may result in loss of computer privileges. Note also that credit is given only for a student's own work. Work handed in that is not the students own work will earn a zero for all involved.
Each student is assigned a computer account through the school, and they are held responsible for any activity that occurs under their account.
