What's Going On? February 24th through February 28th

Web 1

This week we'll be finishing up with lesson 4 and moving on to lesson 5.  Students will have the opportunity to finish up their web pages with links and adding a few finishing touches to their personal web page.  Once we have finished lesson 4, we'll move on to lesson 5: Adding Images.  As we start this lesson, students will be introduced to the powerful, industry-standard web design software: Dreamweaver.  Now that we have a handle on some of the basic coding structure we can allow Dreamweaver to help us with some of the coding.

In our lesson 4 projects we added links by hand (figuring out some pretty complicated file structures).  Now we'll see how easy it is with Dreamweaver!  We'll be able to add links, images and other items with a few clicks of a button.  I must warn students to be cautious about the code that Dreamweaver will create for us.  While much of it is extremely helpful, sometimes Dreamweaver adds a lot of "extras" that aren't really necessary.

Students will be considered "on pace" for the course if they are finished with all projects and lesson review questions through lesson 4 by the end of the day on Monday.


Web 2

This week we'll take another look at some CSS tips and tricks. We'll revisit some of the CSS animation that we created on Friday.  We'll also look to see how we can create an image gallery.  Once we have perfected this practice, students will be able to add an image gallery to their portfolios.

Students will be considered "on pace" for the course if they have completed the home page, the contact page, and the image gallery page for their personal portfolio.

What's Going On This Week? February 17th through February 21st

Programming the Web 1
This week we will be finishing up lesson 3 on marking up text with HTML and starting lesson 4 on
links.  Students are considered "on pace" if they have completed all projects and review questions though lesson 3 by Monday.

This week we will focus on file structure.  We'll learn how to create links to existing web pages, how to link to other pages that we'll create, and how to link within a document.  This will be the last week that we use the "Notepad" program to create web pages.  We will then move on to the industry-standard "Dreamweaver".

Programming the Web 2
This week we'll finish up our forms lesson.  We'll add a quick form to our portfolio page and learn how we can collect the results.  We'll also take a look at a few more CSS tips and tricks.



Fundamentals of Programming
This week we'll be working on our partner "SoundBoard" project.  Students will pair up to create a app that integrates sound, video and images.  This is a creative project, so students will have the freedom to choose their school-appropriate subject matter for the project.  Since we'll be looking for images, sound and video to incorporate into our app we'll need to talk about copyright.  We want to make sure that any apps we create are made with original or royalty-free images, text, and video.

What's Going On? February 10th through February 14th

Web 1
To be considered "on pace", Web 1 students should have all components from lesson 1 and lesson 2 complete by Monday.  The lesson 1 and lesson 2 review questions are available on BlackBoard.  All projects for lesson 2 should be uploaded to the student's shared folder on Google Drive.

This week we will take a look at chapter 5: Marking Up Text.  Students will be introduced to some basic HTML structure including creating lists, making up an address tag, and div and span tags.  This week students will need to read chapter 5, complete the lesson 3 review questions that are found on BlackBoard, and complete the three web page projects for the week.  I encourage any students to ask questions and work together if they get stuck.

Web 2

This week we will take a look at adding an interactive feature to our web pages.  We will look at ways for the user to add text and make selections with the use of form fields.  We will go through form field examples as a class, create a sample form web page, and add a form to our portfolio page.







Fundamentals of Programming
This week we will be wrapping up our Paint Pot app.  In this app, students create a canvas where the
app user can draw lines and dots in different colors.  While creating this app, students will be introduced to the concept of drawing figures (lines and circles), adding colors, and working with global variables.  These basic concepts will play a big role as we learn to create more complicated apps.

What's Going On? February 3rd through February 7th

Web 1
At this point students are considered "on pace" if they have completed the lesson one review questions and the lesson one project.  The lesson one review questions can be found on our BlackBoard class website.  Students are encouraged to complete their reading guide prior to completing the review questions.  Students may use their book and any other resources while completing these review questions.

This week students learn the basics of HTML syntax.  We will create a sample web page together as a class to practice the basic structure for the page.  Later in the week students will have the opportunity to try it on their own by creating three web pages.  Students are also responsible for completing the lesson two review questions.  These review questions go along with chapter 4 in our textbook.  A reading guide is available for this on BlackBoard.  Students are considered "on pace" if they have completed the lesson 1 and 2 review questions and all projects through lesson 2 by Monday.


Web 2
This week students will finish up their website portfolio template.  We will be adding on to this page throughout the semester.  Once students have completed this template, students will being their study of transitions, transforms, and animations.  We will study these CSS techniques for modifying our pages.  Once we have mastered some of these tricks, we will add them to our portfolio template.


Fundamentals of Programming
This week we will finish up our study of the "Hello Purr" app.  Students should have a working app for an Android device.  This app allows people to touch a picture of a cat and have it "meow" and "purr".  Also, the cat will "meow" when the phone shakes.

Once the app is created, we will talk about the programming language that is happening behind the scenes of our app.  We will introduce such topics as "properties", "events", "event handlers", "parameters", and "functions".  Students will summarize these terms in their own words and add the app information to their programming portfolio.