What's Going On? November 16-20th

Fundamentals of Programming

At the end of last week students completed a summative assessment on some of the basic properties of animation.  Based on the results of the assessments, students will be broken up into a couple of groups.  Students who have shown understanding of the basic concepts will be moving on to complete our "Animation Creative Project". Students who are struggling with some of the underlying concepts will be participating in some different activities to help fill in the gaps in our understanding.  Once students have shown understanding of the basic concepts, they will move onto the creative project.


Programming the Web 1

Students complete their midterm multiple choice exam and project last week.  At the beginning of the week students will receive the results of the assessment.  Students who are struggling with some of the underlying concepts need to make sure to get their questions answered as we will continue to build on the basic concepts learned so far during the first half of the semester.

This week we will move on to lesson 9 where students will learn more about floating and positioning elements.  Basically, we are going to learn how to place objects in specific places.  Students will have our reading guide, our lesson review questions and web assignments 9A, 9B, 9C, and 9D to complete over the course of the week.  The four web assignments are all tutorial assignments directed in the textbook.  Students are considered "on pace" if the lesson 9 materials have been uploaded to Google Drive by the end of the week.


Programming the Web 2

The Web 2 class was on a bit of a hiatus last week due to the absence of half of the students due to the band field trip.  Hopefully everyone will be in class and ready to proceed this week.  On Tuesday of this week we will continue to to work on our form assignment.  Students will investigate more about radio button, text areas, and the different buttons that can be added to the page.  We will also talk about ways to format the form so that our input boxes are lined up nicely on the screen.  We will achieve this through the use of tables.  Students will use the features built into DreamWeaver to help us code this structure.