What's Going On? December 19th through December 22nd

School Schedule for the Week
Since this is a four day week leading up to our winter break, our schedule will look a little different.  We will not run a traditional "Monday Schedule".  Instead, we will run our typical "Tuesday schedule" on Monday, our "Wednesday schedule" on Tuesday, our "Thursday schedule" on Wednesday and our "Friday schedule" on Thursday.  We will also have a modified schedule on Thursday with a pep assembly at the end of the day.

Programming the Web Schedule for the Week

This week, students will continue to work on the lesson 12a assignment.  Going into the weekend, students should have completed formatting our photos and should have written the code for the basic overall structure for the page.  Based on our productivity level on this project and the progress made, we will set our goal due date.  Students will learn about our due date during class on Wednesday.   

Winter Break

Winter break is Friday, December 23rd through January 2nd.  School will resume on Tuesday, January 3rd.  I hope everyone enjoys this break and has time to relax and spend time with family and friends!  Stay warm!

What's Going On? December 12th through December 16th

Unit 12: Web-Based Graphics

This week students will be working on unit 12: Web-Based Graphics.  Along with this unit, students will read chapters 21 and 22 in the textbook, complete the accompanying reading guide, our weekly review questions, and web assignment 12a.


In this unit, students will work a little bit with Photoshop in order to optimize pictures for the internet.  Students will learn how to set the resolution for a photo to 72dpi, resize photos, and the best extension for images (gif, jpg, png).

Once we have talked about and practice formatting images, students will then have the opportunity to work on our web assignment 12a.  For this assignment, students will create their own layout and apply image formatting techniques in order to create a home page for a website that we will be working on through unit 12 and 13.

What's Going On? December 5th Through 9th

Lesson 11: CSS Techniques

This week we will be looking at some HTML techniques and how to apply new CSS techniques in order to create responsive web sites.  We will look at how we can use one set of HTML rules in order to create a site optimized for mobile devices, tablets, and desktop computers.  During this week, students will need to read chapter 18 in the textbook, complete the reading guide, and work on web assignments 11a and 11b.




Throughout the week, we will investigate an image replacement technique, known as the Phark method.  This will allow us to replace text with an image.  

We will also take some time to look into how to create a table using html.  A table is a useful technique for organizing data.

Interested in Computer Science? Try An Hour of Code!

December 5th through 9th is Computer Science Education Week and people all around the country and world are participating in the "Hour of Code".  Tens of millions of people in over 180 countries have participated in an "Hour of Code" event.  North will be hosting an "Hour of Code" event on Thursday, December 8th after school from 3:15-4:15 in computer lab 300.  If you would like to learn a little bit more about computer programming, please join us!  Please see me if you have any questions.