Weeks of June 5–June 16

Exam:

• TECHNOLOGY EXAM ANSWER FORM
• Exam Review is available

Agendas:

Monday

• Extra Credit
• Notes
• Test

Tuesday

• Intro to Resumes

Wednesday

• Work on Resume: fill out resume information worksheet
• Study for test
• Exam Review is available
• Extra Credit due on Monday

Thursday

• Test (Answer Form Here)
• Please take this survey

Friday

• Last day to turn in late photo assignments (see Assignments sidebar on the left)
• Work on Resume: 
• resume information worksheet
• Resume due on Monday (1/2 hour) or Tuesday (5/6 hour)
• Study for exam; exam review is available
• Extra Credit due on Monday

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Monday

• Extra Credit due
• Resume due (1/2 hour)
• Exam Review

Tuesday

• 1st Hour Exam
• 2nd Hour Exam (end of class for the year)
• 3-7th hour
• Resume due (5/6 hour)

Wednesday

• 3rd Hour Exam
• 4th Hour Exam
• 5th-7th hour

Thursday

• 5th Hour Exam
• 6th Hour Exam

Friday

• 7th Hour Exam
• Laptop turn-in

 Resources:

• Slideshow: How Cameras Work: Exposure
• Slideshow: Taking Better Photos
• Suggested apps 
• For manual camera control:
• Android:
• Open Camera
• VSCO
• The stock photo app on LG phones has manual controls built in
• iOs
• VSCO
• tutorial
• The stock Apple photo app has manual controls (links to tutorials here and here).
• For editing:
• Polarr (Chromebooks and mobile)
• Snapseed (mobile)
• For Compositing:
• Pixlr.com (Chromebooks)
• Photoshop Mix (mobile)

Week of May 22-26

Current Project:

• Regatta!
• Brace for Impact!

Entry Document

Learning Targets:

• Be able to define these terms: 
  • Aperture
  • Shutter speed
  • Exposure
  • Exposure Compensation
  • Metering
• Identify basic components of a camera
• Compose photos using exposure compensation and the Rule of Thirds
• Edit photos

Standards

• Use a variety of media and formats to design, develop, publish, and present projects (e.g., newsletters, web sites, presentations, photo galleries)
• Apply advanced software features to redesign the appearance of word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations 
• Analyze the capabilities and limitations of digital resources and evaluate their potential to address personal, social, lifelong learning, and career needs
• Identify common graphic, audio, and video file formats (e.g., jpeg, gif, bmp, mpeg, wav, wmv, mp3, flv, avi, pdf) 
• Demonstrate how to import/export text, graphics, or audio files  

This week's agendas:

Monday

• Check grades
• Be organized!
• Read and Check Instructions!!!!!!!
• All current missing work due by Friday
• Draw a picture of camera exposure
• Notes: shooting techniques
• Assignment: take pictures :-)

Tuesday

• Notes: Techniques for taking more interesting photos
• Assignment: Take a bunch of photos. Intentionally try to use at least four of the techniques discussed in class. Submit one good example of each of four techniques in a slideshow. Turn it in on Google Classroom.
• Suggested apps for manual camera control:
• Android:
• Open Camera
• VSCO
• The stock photo app on LG phones has manual controls built in
• iOs
• VSCO
• tutorial
• The stock Apple photo app has manual controls (links to tutorials here and here).

Wednesday

• Photo editing assignment (directions here)
• polarr.co (chrome app link or linked to Google Drive version)
• example of the assignment
• Polarr Guide

Thursday

• Work on Photo editing assignment (directions here)
• polarr.co (chrome app link or linked to Google Drive version)
• example of the assignment
• Polarr Guide

Friday

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Quizzes and Tests:

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Assignments:

• Assignment #1: Exposure
• Assignment #2: Take better photos

Resources:

• Slideshow: How Cameras Work: Exposure
• Slideshow: Taking Better Photos
• Suggested apps for manual camera control:
• Android:
• Open Camera
• VSCO
• The stock photo app on LG phones has manual controls built in
• iOs
• VSCO
• tutorial
• The stock Apple photo app has manual controls (links to tutorials here and here).

Week of May 15–19

Current Project:

• Regatta!
• Brace for Impact!

Entry Document

Learning Targets:

• Be able to define these terms: 
  • Aperture
  • Shutter speed
  • Exposure
  • Exposure Compensation
  • Metering
• Identify basic components of a camera
• Compose photos using exposure compensation and the Rule of Thirds
• Edit photos

Standards

• standard

This week's agendas:

Monday

• Activity: Regatta Calculations–figure out if your boat will float!

Tuesday

• Notes: How cameras work
• Success criteria:Be able to define these terms: Know and define these terms:
  • Aperture
  • Shutter speed
  • Exposure
  • Exposure Compensation
  • Metering
  And answer these questions:
  • How does a camera basically work? Use the terms listed above.
  • When is exposure compensation useful?
  • What is the Rule of Thirds?
• Activity: Look at your camera's controls
• Suggested apps for manual camera control:
• Android:
• Open Camera
• VSCO
• The stock photo app on LG phones has manual controls built in
• iOs
• VSCO
• tutorial
• The stock Apple photo app has manual controls (links to tutorials here and here).
• Assignment: Exposure
• Take three pictures of the same subject using different exposure settings. Insert them into a slideshow, one per slide. Explain how you changed the exposure in each image.

Wednesday

• Activity:
• 1/2 Video for Earth Science
• 5/6 Finish Exposure Notes; Exposure Assignment

Thursday

• Activity: Study for Visual Design Test

Friday

• Activity: Visual Design Test – Answer Form is here
• Regatta Calculations are due!

Quizzes and Tests:

• Visual Design: Friday

Assignments:

• Assignment #1: Exposure
• Assignment #2:

Resources:

• Your notes

Week of May 8-12

Current Project: Design

Mini-Project:

• Regatta
• Use visual Design principles to create materials.

Learning Targets:

• Articulate and apply design principles for effective communication and usability.
• Use design software to create documents

Standards

• 9-12.CI.1. apply advanced software features to redesign the appearance of word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
• 9-12.CI.3. use a variety of media and formats to design, develop, publish, and present projects
• 9-12.TC.10. identify common graphic, audio, and video file formats (e.g., jpeg, gif, bmp, mpeg, wav, wmv, mp3, avi, pdf)
• 9-12.TC.12. demonstrate how to import/export text, graphics, or audio files

This week's agendas:

Monday

• Regatta!

Tuesday

• Discuss copyright. Workshop: design tools in Google Docs. Individual Assignment: Wikipedia Article Redesign

Wednesday

• Continue to work on the individual assignment from yesterday: Wikipedia Article Redesign. Submit to Google Classroom when finished. Due on Thursday.

Thursday

• Submit individual assignment Wikipedia Article Redesign to Google Classroom
• Test review

Friday

• Check in Regatta work

Assignments:

• Executive Plan (designed!) by Friday
• Boat blueprints: Friday
• Individual Assignment: Wikipedia Article Redesign due Thursday

Resources:

• Article on design: 12 ways Designers Know if A Design is Good
• Visual Design Slideshow
• Software
• Lucidpress (document designer)
• Pixlr (image editor)
• Copyright-Friendly Free Image Resources
  
  
  • unsplash.com
  • Their license
  • pexels.com
  • pixabay.com
  • wikimedia commons
  • creative commons search

This week, May 1-5

Current Project: Design

Mini-Project:

• Make a new holiday!
• Use visual Design principles to create materials for it.

Learning Targets:

• Articulate and apply design principles for effective communication and usability.
• Use design software to create documents

Standards

• 9-12.CI.1. apply advanced software features to redesign the appearance of word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
• 9-12.CI.3. use a variety of media and formats to design, develop, publish, and present projects
• 9-12.TC.10. identify common graphic, audio, and video file formats (e.g., jpeg, gif, bmp, mpeg, wav, wmv, mp3, avi, pdf)
• 9-12.TC.12. demonstrate how to import/export text, graphics, or audio files

This week's agendas:

Monday

Individual Activity: Assignment: Create a Brochure:

1. Sketch out ideas for a trifold brochure that relates to your event.
1. Brochure must have at least 4 sections of information and each section must have at least one paragraph or bulleted list.
2. Use designs similar to what you used for your invitation.
3. Use good design principles to make clear the hierarchy of information.
2. Create the finished product using Lucidpress.
1. Do NOT use a template
2. DO use guides to make your brochure a trifold
3. Include a least one image from which you have removed the background.
3. Finish and submit your brochure:
1. Save as a jpeg or png
2. Title it: brochure-your last name
3. Turn in an assignment check sheet

Copyright-Friendly Free Image Resources

• pexels.com
• pixabay.com
• wikimedia commons
• creative commons search

Tuesday

Discuss: design goals, role of sketching and ideas

As a group, create a list of your own design guidelines

Revisit and expand on design notes (Slideshow)

Journal: why does design matter? Explain your answer (Google Classroom)

Wednesday

• Continue: Notes on Qualities of Good Design
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• Example 1
• Example 2

Thursday

• assignment due
• 
  

Friday

• Article design in Google Docs.

Quizzes and Tests:

• Quiz next week

Assignments:

• Assignment #1: Event Invitation
• Assignment #2: Brochure

Resources:

• Article on design: 12 ways Designers Know if A Design is Good
• Visual Design Slideshow
• Software
• Lucidpress (document designer)
• Pixlr (image editor)
• Copyright-Friendly Free Image Resources
  
  
  • pexels.com
  • pixabay.com
  • wikimedia commons
  • creative commons search

This week, April 24-28

Current Project: Design

Mini-Project:

• Make a new holiday!
• Use visual Design principles to create materials for it.

Learning Targets:

• Articulate and apply design principles for effective communication and usability.
• Use design software to create documents

Standards

• 9-12.CI.1. apply advanced software features to redesign the appearance of word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
• 9-12.CI.3. use a variety of media and formats to design, develop, publish, and present projects
• 9-12.TC.10. identify common graphic, audio, and video file formats (e.g., jpeg, gif, bmp, mpeg, wav, wmv, mp3, avi, pdf)
• 9-12.TC.12. demonstrate how to import/export text, graphics, or audio files

This week's agendas:

Monday

Individual Activity: Create an invitation to your holiday

• Create an invitation for an event related to your holiday.
• Group: brainstorm the info needed
• Sketch ideas on paper
• Success criteria: sketch that answers our design questions
• Create your invitation digitally using lucidpress.com (sign in with your school Google email).
• Check your design with our design questions

Tuesday

Turn in Invitation assignment

Working with other programs
File Types

• jpg, png, gif, tiff, and pdf
• using Pixlr to remove backgrounds

Assignment: Create a Brochure:

1. Sketch out ideas for a trifold brochure that relates to your event.
1. Brochure must have at least 4 sections of information and each section must have at least one paragraph or bulleted list.
2. Use designs similar to what you used for your invitation.
3. Use good design principles to make clear the hierarchy of information.
2. Create the finished product using Lucidpress.
1. Do NOT use a template
2. DO use guides to make your brochure a trifold
3. Include a least one image from which you have removed the background.

Copyright-Friendly Free Image Resources

• pexels.com
• pixabay.com
• wikimedia commons
• creative commons search

Wednesday

• How to use rulers and guidelines to set up a brochure
• Brochure Examples
• example 1
• example 2
• example 3
• example 4
• example 5
• example 6
• example 7
• Brochure Work Time
• Continue: Notes on Qualities of Good Design
• 
  
• Example 1
• Example 2

Thursday

• Brochure assignment due
• Newsletter assignment

Friday

• Article design in Google Docs.

Quizzes and Tests:

• Quiz next week

Assignments:

• Assignment #1: Event Invitation
• Assignment #2: Brochure

Resources:

• Article on design: 12 ways Designers Know if A Design is Good
• Visual Design Slideshow
• Software
• Lucidpress (document designer)
• Pixlr (image editor)
• Copyright-Friendly Free Image Resources
  
  
  • pexels.com
  • pixabay.com
  • wikimedia commons
  • creative commons search

This week, April 17-21

Current Project: Design

Entry Document:

• Make a new holiday!

Learning Targets:

• Articulate and apply design principles in the creation of documents

This week's agendas:

Monday

Announcements

• New Groups!
• We're running out of school year! Conserve!

Group Activity: Create a holiday

• Your group has been tasked with creating a new national holiday. As a group, you need to brainstorm holiday ideas. Pick one and write down:
1. The name of the holiday
2. The purpose of the holiday. Why is this holiday important?
3. Image(s), symbol(s), and colors associated with the holiday.
4. Customs or practices that are needed to celebrate the holiday.
• Write this up in a Google Doc and share with me via Google Classroom.
• Success criteria: 
• A document, written in complete sentences, with all of the information asked for above.
• #2 and #4 should be short paragraphs. Bullet points are acceptable for #3. 
• Names of the group should be listed at the top of the document.

Tuesday

Group Activity: Comparing Designs

• Look at these design examples. There are 4 pairs of good and bad design examples.
• As a group, identify at least 3 visual qualities that make the good design better than the bad design.
• Success criteria: Take one sheet of paper per group. Divide it into quadrants and number them. In each quadrant write down 3 ways that one design is better than the other. Be specific (i.e. "The good design has bold subtitles which are easy to find" instead of "The good design is organized.")

Notes: Qualities of Good Design

Wednesday

• Continue: Notes on Qualities of Good Design
• Slideshow
• Example 1
• Example 2
• Activity: Create an invitation for an event related to your holiday.
• Group: brainstorm the info needed
• Sketch ideas on paper
• Success criteria: sketch that answers our design questions

Thursday

• Activity:
• Success criteria:

Friday

• Activity:
• Success criteria:

Quizzes and Tests:

Assignments:

• Assignment #1:
• Assignment #2:

Resources:

• Article on design: 12 ways Designers Know if A Design is Good
• Your notes!

Week of 4/10–4/14

Current Project:

What makes a good design?

Learning Targets:

• Articulate and apply design principles in the creation of documents

This week's agendas:

Monday

• Check grades!!!!!!
• Debrief software evaluations
• Activity: Read this article on design, items 1-8
• Each person takes two sections (1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8)
• For your sections:
• summarize each principle
• find an example on your own
• explain your principles to your group
• Success criteria:
• Able to summarize and explain with examples

Tuesday

• No School for freshmen

Wednesday

• ½ Day
• Continue work on Monday's assignment

Thursday

• Activity:
• Success criteria:

Friday

• No School

Today

This week's agendas:

Monday

• Activity: Finish Websites

Tuesday

• Activity:PSAT pre-id:

Wednesday

• Activity: Software Evaluation
• Success criteria:

Thursday

• Activity:
• Success criteria:

Friday

• Activity:
• Success criteria:

Quizzes and Tests:

Assignments:

• Assignment #1:
• Assignment #2:

Resources:

• Your notes

The week of March 20 to March 24

Current Project: A Global Web

Entry Document

Rubric

• 1-2 NTKs
• 5-6 NTKs

Learning Targets:

• Explain the qualities of an effective website.
• Use design process to create a website for a purpose

Standards

• 9-12.CI.2. create a web page 
• 9-12.CI.3. use a variety of media and formats to design, develop, publish, and present projects (e.g., newsletters, web sites, presentations, photo galleries)
• 9-12.CC.3. collaborate in content-related projects that integrate a variety of media (e.g., print, audio, video, graphic, simu- lations, and models) 

Checkpoints

• Part I: HTML and CSS
• Part II: Design 
• week 1
• week 2
• Part III: Refinement

This week's agendas:

Monday

• Quiz
• Evaluate group websites
1. 1-2 hour websites
2. 5-6 hour websites

Tuesday

• Typography
• Examples: 1 2 3
• Website refinement planning guide

Wednesday

• Work on Website refinement planning guide (due Friday)

Thursday

• Complete the Website refinement planning guide
• Turn in your Website Refinement Planning Guide to Google Classroom by Friday.
• 1-2 hr.
• 5-6 hr.
• Use your planning guide to make final adjustments to your website.
• When you are done, fill out a rubric for your site.
• Submit rubric to me in class on Friday.

Friday

• Turn in your Website refinement planning guide to Google Classroom today.
• 1-2 hr.
• 5-6 hr.
• Use your planning guide to make final adjustments to your website.
• When you are done, fill out a rubric for your site.
• Submit rubric to me in class today.

Assignments:

• Submit Group Website
• Website refinement planning guide

Resources:

• Website Usability Guidelines from 1-2 hour and 5-6 hour
• HTML Guides:
• Positioning
• Menu Bars
• Linking Pages

This Week: Mar. 13 – Mar. 17

Current Project: A Global Web

Entry Document

Rubric

• 1-2 NTKs
• 5-6 NTKs

Learning Targets:

• Explain the qualities of an effective website.
• Use design process to create a website for a purpose

Standards

• 9-12.CI.2. create a web page 
• 9-12.CI.3. use a variety of media and formats to design, develop, publish, and present projects (e.g., newsletters, web sites, presentations, photo galleries)
• 9-12.CC.3. collaborate in content-related projects that integrate a variety of media (e.g., print, audio, video, graphic, simu- lations, and models) 

Checkpoints

• Part I: HTML and CSS
• Part II: Design 
• this week 
• last week

This week's agendas:

Monday

• Activity: Planning group website
• Success criteria: Finished product meets the qualities of an effective website.
• Your planning sheet is signed by Ozias.
• Create a Group Planning document (on paper or electronically) that goes through the first two steps of the design process by answering these questions:
1. What is our purpose?
2. What are our requirements?
3. What is our content?
• The more specific your answers are to those questions, the easier the final project will come together.
• Success criteria: Document accurately reflects the goals from the entry document and is approved by Mr. O.
• Fundraising video

Tuesday

• Rubric
• HTML Guides:
• Positioning
• Menu Bars
• Linking Pages
• Overview of user testing (see Wednesday for details)
• Activity: Planning group website
• Success criteria: Finished product meets the qualities of an effective website.
• Your planning sheet is signed by Ozias.
• Prototype your website.
• Use the rubric to get feedback from another group
• Implement the feedback (document this)

Wednesday

• Quiz review
• Activity: Planning group website
• Success criteria: Finished product meets the qualities of an effective website.
• Your planning sheet is signed by Ozias.
• Activity: gather feedback on your website:
• Write down three things you want your testing group to find on your site. Observe while they try to do so. Make note of any problems they have.
• Ask your testing group to evaluate your website using the rubric.
• Using your notes and the rubrics from the testing group, list and prioritize changes you need to make to your website. Then make them.
• Success Criteria: you are able to explain the results of your testing and how you used it to improve your website during your presentation.

Thursday

• 5-6 user testing

Friday

• Finish presentations
• Quiz

Quizzes and Tests:

• Quiz on stages of design and qualities of a good website next Friday.

Assignments:

• Project Sheet
• Assignment #1 (Group): Planning Document
• Assignment #2 (Group): Layout 
• Assignment #3 (Individual): User feedback and testing
• Assignment #4 (Group): Design Reflection (use rubric)

Resources:

• Website Usability Guidelines from 1-2 hour and 5-6 hour
• HTML Guides:
• Positioning
• Menu Bars
• Linking Pages

This Week, March 6-10, 2017

• Current Project
• Agendas
• Quiz
• Assignments
• Resources

• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday

Current Project: A Global Web

Entry Document

• 1-2 NTKs
• 5-6 NTKs

Learning Targets:

• Explain the qualities of an effective website.
• Use design process to create a website for a purpose

Standards

• 9-12.CI.2. create a web page 
• 9-12.CI.3. use a variety of media and formats to design, develop, publish, and present projects (e.g., newsletters, web sites, presentations, photo galleries)
• 9-12.CC.3. collaborate in content-related projects that integrate a variety of media (e.g., print, audio, video, graphic, simu- lations, and models) 

Checkpoints

• Part I: HTML and CSS
• Part II: Design (this page)

This week's agendas:

Monday

• Activity: Planning group website
• Success criteria: Finished product meets the qualities of an effective website.
• Workshop:
• Small group: define and find connections: Understand, Define, Ideate, Plan, Prototype (verb), Present (verb).
• Deliverable: group mind map
• Intro to Design Process
• Qualities of a Good Website
• Example sites:
• https://www.codeschool.com
• Flipboard
• www.apple.com

Tuesday

• Activity: Planning group website
• Success criteria: Finished product meets the qualities of an effective website.
• Workshop
• Qualities of a Good Website:
• Has a clear purpose
• Accurate
• Multi-modal
• Ethical (including respecting intellectual property)
• Usable (including readable and accessible)
• Aesthetics
• Example sites:
• https://www.codeschool.com
• Flipboard
• www.apple.com

Wednesday

• Funky schedule today due to speaker.
• How to link between multiple pages
• How to style navigation bars
• Activity: 
• Create a Group Planning document (on paper or electronically) that goes through the first two steps of the design process by answering these questions:
1. What is our purpose?
2. What are our requirements?
3. What is our content?
• The more specific your answers are to those questions, the easier the final project will come together.
• Success criteria: Document accurately reflects the goals from the entry document and is approved by Mr. O.

Thursday

• No science teacher for you today!
• Continue to work on your Group Planning document.

Friday

• Workshop: How to add multiple pages and a menu bar.
• Activity: Continue to plan your website.
• There are several components to planning. Get the planning sheet given to you in class signed by Mr. Ozias as you complete each component.

Quizzes and Tests:

• Quiz on stages of design and qualities of a good website next Friday.

Assignments:

• Assignment #1 (Group): Planning Document
• Assignment #2 (Group): Layout 
• Assignment #3 (Individual): Design Reflection (use rubric)
• Assignment #4 (Group): User feedback and testing

Resources:

• Website Usability Guidelines from 1-2 hour and 5-6 hour

Current Work: 2/23–3/3

• Quiz
• Assignments
• Resources

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Quiz

• Friday, 3/3/17
• Review is available here.
• Quiz Answer Form

Assignments:

• Assignment #1: "practice1.html" should already be in your "HTMLpractice" folder
• Assignment #2:
• check it in with me in class
• Directions:
• Create a webpage; name it "practice2.html"
• Use a correct page structure
• Include the following HTML:
• Header
• Paragraph
• Bold
• Emphasis
• Numbered List
• Bullet Point
• Images
• Link
• Include CSS to do the following:
• Change a font
• Change a background color
• Put a border around something
• Assignment #3:
• Create this using CSS:

• Use content of your own choosing.

Resources

• Slide Show
• HTML/CSS Cheat Sheet
• CSS Selectors and properties (and another one)
• CSS demos at W3 Schools

Agenda: Friday, 2/16/17

Today

• Assignment #1: "practice1.html" should already be in your "HTMLpractice" folder
• Assignment #2
• DUE MONDAY (check it in with me in class)
• Directions:
• Create a webpage; name it "practice2.html"
• Use a correct page structure
• Include the following HTML:
• Header
• Paragraph
• Bold
• Emphasis
• Numbered List
• Bullet Point
• Images
• Link
• Include CSS to do the following:
• Change a font
• Change a background color
• Put a border around something
• Workshop: CSS and positioning (take notes!!!!!!!!!)
• CSS demos at W3 Schools

Resources:

• Slide Show
• HTML/CSS Cheat Sheet
• CSS Selectors and properties (and another one)
• CSS demos at W3 Schools

Agenda: Thursday, 2/16/17

1st and 2nd Hour

• Earth Science stuff today

5th and 6th Hour

• Assignment #1: "practice1.html" should be in your "HTMLpractice" folder
• Assignment #2:
• Create a webpage; name it "practice2.html"
• Use a correct page structure
• Include the following HTML:
• Header
• Paragraph
• Bold
• Emphasis
• Numbered List
• Bullet Point
• Images
• Link
• Include CSS to do the following:
• Change a font
• Change a background color
• Put a border around something

Resources:

• Slide Show
• HTML/CSS Cheat Sheet
• CSS Selectors and properties (and another one)
• CSS demos at W3 Schools

Agenda: Wednesday,2/15/17

1st and 2nd Hour

• Heart Video
• Assignment #1: "practice1.html" should be in your "HTMLpractice" folder
• Intro to CSS
• Structure of the website
• Anatomy of a style declaration
• Assignment:
• Create a webpage; name it "practice2.html"
• Use a correct page structure
• Include the following HTML:
• Header
• Paragraph
• Bold
• Emphasis
• Numbered List
• Bullet Point
• Images
• Link
• Include CSS to do the following:
• Change a font
• Change a background color
• Put a border around something

Resources:

• Slide Show
• HTML/CSS Cheat Sheet
• CSS Selectors and properties (and another one)

5th and 6th Hour

• Refresh on CSS
• Assignment #1: "practice1.html" should be in your "HTMLpractice" folder
• Assignment #2:
• Create a webpage; name it "practice2.html"
• Use a correct page structure
• Include the following HTML:
• Header
• Paragraph
• Bold
• Emphasis
• Numbered List
• Bullet Point
• Images
• Link
• Include CSS to do the following:
• Change a font
• Change a background color
• Put a border around something

Resources:

• Slide Show
• HTML/CSS Cheat Sheet
• CSS Selectors and properties (and another one)

Agenda: Friday, 2/10/17

1st and 2nd Hour

After yesterday's HTML-athon, today we need to get caught up on some Earth Science!

5th and 6th Hour

• Intro to CSS
• Structure of the website
• Anatomy of a style declaration
• Assignment:
• Create a webpage; name it "practice2.html"
• Use a correct page structure
• Include the following HTML:
• Header
• Paragraph
• Bold
• Emphasis
• Numbered List
• Bullet Point
• Images
• Link
• Include CSS to do the following:
• Change a font
• Change a background color
• Put a border around something

Resources:

• Slide Show
• HTML/CSS Cheat Sheet
• CSS Selectors and properties (and another one)

Agenda: Thursday, 2/9/17

1st and 2nd Hour

Do you want to make a website?

Do you want to learn some code?

We'll write HTML,

And CSS as well,

And head out on this road!

Today:

• Create a new folder in your Google Drive. This is where you will store your work.
• Name it "HTMLpractice-LastName-FirstInitial" (leave out the quotation marks; include the hyphens; no spaces). 
• Right-click on it, go to "Share" and share it with me.
• Set up your text editor (note: if you have your own computer, you will need to use Chrome for this app):
• First: download this extension: HTML Editey
• Then: open it agree to everything
• Create a new document
• In that document, go to FILE>PAGE SETUP and uncheck "enable auto pairing"
• Learn a few HTML tags
• At the end of class, fill out this exit ticket 

5th and 6th Hour

• More about HTML
• Links
• Lists
• Images
• Intro to CSS
• Structure of the website
• Anatomy of a style declaration
• Assignment:
• Create a webpage; name it "practice2.html"
• Use a correct page structure
• Include the following HTML:
• Header
• Paragraph
• Bold
• Emphasis
• Numbered List
• Bullet Point
• Images
• Link
• Include CSS to do the following:
• Change a font
• Change a background color
• Put a border around something

Resources:

• Slide Show
• HTML/CSS Cheat Sheet
• CSS Selectors and properties (and another one)

Agenda: Wednesday, 2/8/17

1st and 2nd hour

• A short visit from Link Crew
• Make sure you turned in your website evaluation assignment
• Today: HTML Pretest (Pretest Answer Form Link)
• Introduction to the internet
• Student count day.

5th and 6th hour

Do you want to make a website?

Do you want to learn some code?

We'll write HTML,

And CSS as well,

And head out on this road!

Today:

• Create a new folder in your Google Drive. This is where you will store your work.
• Name it "HTMLpractice-LastName-FirstInitial" (leave out the quotation marks; include the hyphens; no spaces). 
• Right-click on it, go to "Share" and share it with me.
• Set up your text editor (note: if you have your own computer, you will need to use Chrome for this app):
• First: download this extension: HTML Editey
• Then: open it agree to everything
• Create a new document
• In that document, go to FILE>PAGE SETUP and uncheck "enable auto pairing"
• Learn a few HTML tags

Agenda: Tuesday, 2/7/17

1st and 2nd hour

• Course Selection Fair (short class!)
• Earth Science work today

5th and 6th hour

Pretest Link

• Make sure you turned in your website evaluation assignment
• Today: HTML Pretest
• Introduction to the internet

Agenda: Monday, 2/6/17

1st and 2nd Hour

1st and 2nd Hour

• Project Entry Document and NTKs
• Use your Website Evaluation Form, collaborate with your group to develop a list of website design guidelines. Put them in this document: Class Guidelines

Finish and Turn in Group Assignment: Mind Map

1. Create on paper a mind map of the kinds of information you will need for your website. Refer to the Entry Document.
2. Take a picture of your mind map and submit to Google Classroom.
3. Claim a project board for your group and attach your mind map to it

Today: Individual Assignment
Read this article on website design. Use the article to add any guidelines you are missing to your list of design guidelines.
Then, use your guidelines to evaluate one of your favorite websites. Create a document that:

• lists your guidelines
• describes how each one is or is not used on your website (you may want to use screenshots to make this easier)
• gives your overall evaluation of the website
• Make sure you include the URL of the website!

2 hints for your document:

• Use a table to keep your guidelines and screenshots line up (if you don't like the look of the table, you can make the borders invisible)
• Use Google Drawing to annotate your images

5th and 6th hour

• Project Entry Document and NTKs
• Class Website Guidelines

Finish and Turn in Group Assignment: Mind Map

1. Create on paper a mind map of the kinds of information you will need for your website. Refer to the Entry Document.
2. Take a picture of your mind map and submit to Google Classroom.
3. Claim a project board for your group and attach your mind map to it

Today: Individual Assignment
Read this article on website design. Use the article to add any guidelines you are missing to your list of design guidelines.
Then, use your guidelines to evaluate one of your favorite websites. Create a document that:

• lists your guidelines
• describes how each one is or is not used on your website (you may want to use screenshots to make this easier)
• gives your overall evaluation of the website
• Make sure you include the URL of the website!

2 hints for your document:

• Use a table to keep your guidelines and screenshots line up (if you don't like the look of the table, you can make the borders invisible)
• Use Google Drawing to annotate your images

Agenda: Friday, 2/3/17

1st and 2nd Hour

1st and 2nd Hour

• Project Entry Document and NTKs
• Use your Website Evaluation Form, collaborate with your group to develop a list of website design guidelines. Put them in this document: Class Guidelines

Group Assignment: Mind Map

1. Create on paper a mind map of the kinds of information you will need for your website. Refer to the Entry Document.
2. Take a picture of your mind map and submit to Google Classroom.
3. Claim a project board for your group and attach your mind map to it

5th and 6th hour

• Project Entry Document and NTKs

Use the Website Evaluation Form (in the Project Resources  or on paper) to evaluate these websites:

1. Website 1
2. Website 2
3. Website 3
4. Website 4
5. Website 5

Class Guidelines

Agenda: Thursday, 2/2/17

1st and 2nd Hour

• Project Entry Document and NTKs
• Use the Website Evaluation Form (in the Project Resources  or on paper) to evaluate these websites:
  1. Website 1
  2. Website 2
  3. Website 3
  4. Website 4
  5. Website 5

Class Guidelines

5th and 6th hour

• Project Entry Document and NTKs

Use the Website Evaluation Form (in the Project Resources  or on paper) to evaluate these websites:

1. Website 1
2. Website 2
3. Website 3
4. Website 4
5. Website 5

Class Guidelines