(1) Educational website
- Develop a public educational website. according to established criteria.
- Focus on an aspect of education relevant to your teaching needs.
- Introduce significant new material.
- Illustrate technical features introduced in this class.
- 25% of the grade is based upon participation in class discussions and activities.
- 75% is based upon your completed website. Please review each assignment for details on requirements.
(2) Technical features
(3) Logical Directory Structure
- Use clear and logical directory structure for the entire web site.
(4) Text
- Include unique text in your web site
- You may also use public domain text, but if you do so, make certain to cite your source.
(5) Links
Develop web pages that link users to resources for teaching the state standards (or similar curricular standards) in your discipline
- Include local links
- Include permanent external links
- Include anchors
- Include links that open new browsers
- Make a page of links from relevant bookmarks you have arranged in a browser such as Firefox.
(6) Photo pages
- Develop photo album pages of public domain images of notable people in your field
- Develop a photo album of your own photos for a topic related to your curriculum. You can practice with these sample files.
(7) Asset library
- Develop an asset library. There should be no more than one copy of each image, movie, or other library asset. Create it once, and link to it as many times as necessary.
| - | Colors | - | Links | - | Flash | - | Movies | - | Library items - Photos |
(8) Document delivery system
- Develop* and post files as pdfs such as graph paper, state standards, etc.
- Develop* and post Word documents (docs) that include graphics, tables and other publishing features.
- Develop* and post Excel spreadsheets (xls) that you can use in your curriculum
- Develop* and post Powerpoint presentations (ppt) that you can use in your curriculum
- Develop* and post other document types for use by your students
Note: You may chose to use Google Docs.
*Note: You may adapt the files of others. If you choose to do so, please cite the original source and describe how it is modified for your class.