What?
Design and publish a web site for your elementary school (a real one or an imaginary one).
Why?
To display that after learning
and practicing making ePortfolios for three or four weeks, you get
a good mastery of the whole process of web design from web authoring
(using Netscape Composer) to publishing (using 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 today or in the begining of the next class this week.
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 Showcase
Fall 2006 & Showcase
Spring 2006.
This is a team project and everybody needs to contribute. Remeber the
Geese Story?
2. Make this page using Nvu.
Name this page "schoolhome.html". This will be your elementary school homepage. 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. Figure out
the URL of this page
(Clue: http://studentweb.cortland.edu/yourID/schoolhome.html,
and your project #2 page: http://studentweb.cortland.edu/yourID/project2.html).
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 this week or the begining of next week.
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: Week
5
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This page was last updated
on September 24, 2007
For comments or questions contact
Dr. Shufang Shi
shis@cortland.edu