Saturday, March 27, 2010
Project Plan
My goal is to develop instructional materials for my High School Computers class. This class is a general computers class and the last 9 weeks are devoted to creating web pages. I hope to have each student make a web page for a business of their choice. The students will use a CMS like joomla or drupal. I will host their sites via DreamHost. I will also coordinate their efforts through my Moodle site. Students will be responsible for designing and creating their websites. They will also blog regularly (on Moodle) as a way of reflecting on their work. The students will also use a discussion board to comment/critique each others sites. I will construct a rubric which I will use to grade the students. This will be posted so the students know what to shoot for. This project will satisfy several of the METS standards.
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I really like that you're using Joomla or Drupal. I remember teaching a 601 Web Design class about 7 years ago at GVSU and I taught HTML and some CSS. That was the wrong direction to go since most students thought it was way too much work to sustain. But Drupal (which I use in my online classes prior to this semester) is awesome. There's still a learning curve, but the technical stuff is nowhere close to learning HTML and CSS, etc.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I think I noted previously, but it's awesome that you discovered Dreamhost for free. Thanks for sharing that with the class, Nate.