This Week: Mar. 13 – Mar. 17
Current Project: A Global Web
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
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:
- What is our purpose?
- What are our requirements?
- 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:
- 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
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)
