Project #2 Design A Web Site for Your Elementary School - Team Work

 

 

Please refer to Week 5 School Web Class Schedule

What?  

Design and publish a web site for your elementary school (a real one or an imaginary one) using either Google Sites or Nvu.

Google Sites How-to Overview

You can search more how-tos from Google. Remember one of the purpose of this course: learn how to learn! Have fun!

Why?  

To parctice and sharpen your web design skills using either Google Sites or Nvu, and to practice to publishing (using Filezilla ftp). Another important purpose is to build up team spirit and learn to collaborate!

When?

Finish the team project in class and make a presentation to the class. Finishing means to go through all the following 3 steps , including getting the page published to each team member's webspace so that everybody can check this page/site from your own website (or from our ePortfolio Showcase Page in the course website).  Remember a finished mediocre project is better than a fancy one that is still in your heads!!! 

Different groups might have different paces. There are two chioces when to present: either at the end of the class class Monday or in the begining of the class Wednesday.

How?

1. Form a group of 3 or 4 people and start working on the project as soon - and as quickly - as you can. You can brainstorm the project ideas (the design/laytout of a elementary school website) by searching in the internet examples of elementary school websites, and/or view the examples from your peers showcase. This is a team project and everybody needs to contribute. Remeber the Geese Story?

2. Make a homepage for your elementary school. Create another 2 or 3 pages and link those pages to the school homepage. Remember to link each page to the school homepage.

3. Link the elementary school homepage to your Project #2 page. Do not forget the annotation for project #2! Have the project #2 published in everyone's webfolio.

Minimal requirements

1) The website consists at least three pages

2) Using navigation on each page

3) Publish this page : Publish this page to each of your team members' Cortland web folder or on your Google Sites. Figure out the URL of this page.

Reminder: each teach member needs to have all the files of this web site in his or her own web folder. None of the team members will get full score if one of the team members only put a link to the elementary school site to another person's page.

Higher Expectations

To fully show your web design skills you have mastered in the past 3 or 4 weeks:

Try to make this page as real, as rich, and as interesting as you can. Try to incorporate all the skills you've acquired and sharpened in the past few weeks. For instance, you can include graphics/images, links (internal links-to another page in a site; external links like linking to Cortland, Google or Yahoo!; an e-mail link), a navigation bar, text color, background color, etc.  For content, you can use your common sense, or you can decide what content a good elementary school website should include.

Peer Evaluation, Sharing and Celebrating

Showcase to the whole class your group work of the school web site end of Monday class or begining of Wednesday class.

Share with the class the published page online (rather than the page in local) and comment on the works you have done - what impress you the most; what can be improved. 

7. For each team member, share with the class what you discovered through collaborating with other team members that you didn't know earlier!!!

Due Date: end of the week

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This page was last updated on Jan. 15, 2009
For comments or questions contact
Dr. Shufang Shi
shis@cortland.edu