Creating School Wide Web Site
Author: Patricia Janann Nicholson
Curriculum Area: Instructional Technology
Subject Area: Web Masters (Web II)
Sunshine State Standard Benchmark:
  • Demonstrate understanding of the ethical and social implications of varies
    uses of the Internet.
    • HE.B.2.4.1-understand the impact of technology on personal, family, and
      community health.
    • LA.D.2.4.5-critically analyze specific elements of mass media with regarded
      to the extent to which they enhance or manipulate information.
    • LA.D.2.4.6-understand the laws control the delivery and use of media to
      protect the rights of authors and the rights of media owners.
    • AC.H.3.4.2-know that technological problems often create a demand for new
      scientific knowledge and that new technologies make it possible for scientists
      to extend their research in a way that advances science.
    • SC.H.3.4.5-know that the value of a technology may differ for different people
      and at different times.
    • SC.H.3.4.6-know that scientific knowledge is used by those who engage in
      design and technology to solve practical problems, taking human values and
      limitations into account.
  • Demonstrate understanding of principles and techniques used in the design of
    web pages and issues related to their functionality.
  • Demonstrate the use of software to create visual organizers for the development
    of a web site plan.
    • LA.B.2.4.2-organize information using appropriate systems.
  • Write, test, and debug specified code for a web page.
    • MAD.1.4.3-recognize production elements that contribute to the effectiveness of
      a specific medium.
  • Create links, tables, frames, image maps, and web graphics.
  • Develop interactivity for the web server using scripting additions and/or dynamic
    content.
  • Demonstrate understanding of techniques used to maintain a web site, addressing
    the issues of storage, uploading, downloading, and file management.
    • MA.D.1.4.1-describe, analyze, and generalize relationships, patterns, and functions
      using words, symbols, variable, tables, and graphs
  • Determines the main idea or essential message in a text and identifies relevant details
    and facts and patterns of organization.
  • Identifies the author's purpose and/or point of view in a variety of texts.
  • Locates, organizes, & interprets written information-research.
  • Uses a variety of reference materials, including indexes, magazines, newspapers.
    Synthesizes and separates collected information...outlines.
  • Checks the validity and accuracy of information obtained from research, in such ways
    as differentiating fact/opinion, identifying strong vs. weak arguments, and recognizing
    author's personal values.

 

Grade Level: 9th-12th
Lesson Title: Web Masters/Using Macromedia Software to Build A School Web Site
Resources: Nicholson's Lesson Plan Blues:
http://neighbor.firn.edu/class/palm_beach/pahokee_ms/patricia_janann_nicholson/webmastersintro.htm
Learning Objective:

Students will:

  • Read and follow online directions which will result in completed Web pages that will be
    uploaded to Pahokee Middle Senior High School's Web site.

  • Complete Nich's Dreamweaver tutorials and use the information learned to set up a web
    page using correct site definition and page layout.
  • Complete Nich's Firework tutorials and use the information learned to create professional
    looking graphics, text, and buttons to be inserted into Dreamweaver.
  • Complete Nich's Flash tutorials and use the information learned to create professional
    looking multimedia logos, movies, etc. that will be inserted into Dreamweaver.
Instructions: Students will follow the instructions provided at Nicholson's Lesson Plan Blues Webpage.
Finished products are included in the grading rubric listed below.
Assessment Web Page Grading Rubric