This lesson will enable students to design and publish a web page on the Elverta Joint Elementary School District Web server.

Subject: Computer Technology 
Topic: Web Page Design
Grade Level: 8th 
Student Lesson name and URL: Designing Your Own Personal WEB PAGE
                                                         http://ctap295.ctaponline.org/~cmay/students/

 

III. GRADE EIGHT: Advanced Learning Proficiency

Objective: Ensure students understand that the continual pursuit of knowledge – i.e., life-long learning – is necessary to preserve ones ability to function effectively in a dynamic and ever evolving society.

Performance Standards: The student is:
 

• Able to use a variety of technological tools to develop and deliver an  effective, high quality presentation using multiple media.

• Able to develop a web page and publish it.

Html Format
Rich Text Format
Word 2000 Format
 

Objectives:

The student will:
 
•  Identify the two key elements that drive web design. 
•  Design a theme for their web site on our web site template. 
•  Create a user friendly navigation system based on our web site template. 
•  Insert images in their student web site. 
•  Insert hyperlinks in their student web site. 
•  Publish their student web site shell to our server. 

Introductory Activity

Students search the Web for examples of Good & Bad web design, listing the what they like and don't like about each site.

Learning from the Pros
Lesson 1 
         Activities:
1.  The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
2.  The Top Ten Good List
 

Enabling Activities

Students download Templates for their Personal Web Pages. They add, images, a color scheme, text, links, etc. to their web pages.

Dabbling in Design
Lesson 2
          Activities:
1. Internet Scavenger Hunt [Starting your own pages]
2. Color Schemes
3. Backgrounds & Text
4. Inserting Images
5. Tables
6. Paragraph Formatting & Making Lists
7. Creating Links
8. Undercover Agents
 
 

Culminating Activities

Students publish their web pages to our Web Server & use the grading rubric to critique a follow students Web Site & their own.
 

Publishing & Grading
Lesson 3 
         Activities:
1. Grading
2. Uploading Your Web Site
 

The students are assessed as to the completion of each activity (100 total points for each activity) and given feedback about their points and what, if anything, is missing.

Grading Rubric for Final Grade

     Rubric

Results

Link to student generated Web Sites

      Http://www.elverta.k12.ca.us/students
 

Introductory Activity

SiteDesigner - Quick and Fun Way to Create Cool Web Sites - FREE download! Build
http://www.sitedesigner.com/

CHCS workshops on Web design and computing topics
http://www.chcs.com/webdes.htm

Welcome to "Make Your Own Home Page"
http://www.goliath.org/makepage/
 

Enabling Activity

http://www.colormatters.com/colortheory.html
http://www.free-clip-images.com/
http://www.clipartsite.com/index2.html
http://www.clip-art-center.com/
http://www.freegraphicsearch.com/