What's Going On? November 28th through December 2nd

Lesson 10: Page Layout with CSS

This week we will move on to lesson 10 where we will gain more experience with designing page layouts with CSS.  Along with this week's lesson, students will need to read chapter 16 in the textbook, complete the accompanying reading guide, and answer the ten multiple choice lesson review questions.  Students will also have two web assignments to complete.  With the first, students will work with floats to achieve our desired layout.  For assignment 10A, students will apply what we have learned to create a layout of three columns.

For assignment 10B, students will work with negative margins.  We will complete this assignment as a group to show students how negative margins and floats could be used together in order to create a similar three column layout.

What's Going On? November 21st and November 22nd

Designing a Layout

During this short week leading up to Thanksgiving, web students will either use the class time to catch up on past assignments or to practice writing the code to design a layout.  This is a critical skill for students to learn in order to successfully design their own websites for our final project.

In order to practice this skill, students will work on creating a generic layout like the one shown below:

What's Going On? November 14th through November 18th

Lesson 9: Floating and Positioning

Last week students finished up our midterm assignment.  From the looks of things, students have been doing a great job creating our "Border Collie Rescue" website for this project.

This week students will discover more about how to create layouts using different positioning styles and floats.

  

In order to become more knowledgeable on this subject matter, students will read chapter 15 in our textbook and complete the accompanying reading guide.  We will also complete some notes together as a class where we try out our new web techniques.

Students will put this knowledge to work through four web assignments for the week (9a, 9b, 9c, 9d).  Students will be working more with the "Jenware" website and will be completing tutorials for the textbook to add some new layout features for the page.  

Students are considered "on pace" for the class if the reading guide is completed by our Tuesday/Wednesday class, the review questions are planned for and completed during our Thursday class, and all web assignments are uploaded to our shared folder on Google Drive by the end of Friday's class.  Students who need additional time in the lab should talk with me about coming in before school, after school, or during lunch.

What's Going On? November 7th through November 11th

Midterm Project

This week, students will be working on their midterm project.  I will provide a picture of what each of the four pages of the website must look like.  It is up to the student to create the HTML and CSS coding that produces the working web page.  Students will have the assignment presented on Monday and students will have the entire week to work on the project.  All projects must be uploaded by the end of class on Friday.  Students may use old assignments, the internet, and other resources to create this page. However, students may not work together on this assignment.  Additionally, we will have 20 multiple choice questions which students will take during class on Thursday.

Students will have four class periods to work on this assignment.  Students who would like extra time to complete this can make arrangements to come in before school, during lunch, or after school.

Students who are enrolled in this course in partnership with WCTC must earn a "C" or higher in the course and show that they can complete the midterm and final project.  Students should have brought home a detailed grade report this week to show their current progress in the course.

Parent Teacher Conferences

This is just a reminder that parent-teacher conferences are scheduled for this Thursday, November 10 from 4:30-7:30pm.  Parents and students can meet with teachers at this time in the field house.  I will be available to talk about student progress and goal setting at this time.  

What's Going On? October 31st through November 4th

Lesson 8: Thinking Inside the Box

This week students will complete lesson 8 in class.  Along with this lesson, students will read chapter 14 in the textbook, complete the reading guide, and web assignment 8a.  Students will have Monday to learn some new web techniques with our notes day and Tuesday/Wednesday and Thursday as work days.  The entire class will participate in a class review on Friday to go over some HTML and CSS techniques.

During this week's assignment, we will focus on the "Box Model".  We will take a look at how to add spacing with padding and margin.  We will also practice adding stylized borders into our pages.

Midterm Project

It is really important that students are on pace at the end of this week since we will have our midterm project next week.  Students will start the project on Monday and MUST upload it by the end of class on Friday.  Students will be given screen shots of the final project and will have all week to come up with the HTML and CSS coding to create the website.  Students can use their resources: the textbook, old web assignments, and the internet in order to complete the assignment.  Students MAY NOT work together.  Students who need additional work time beyond what is provided in class must make arrangements before school, during lunch or after school to have the lab open.

What's Going On? October 24th through October 26th

Lesson 7: Colors and Backgrounds

During this short week of school, web students will work on finishing up our seventh unit on colors and backgrounds.  With this lesson, students have the opportunity to try out different background images and address different ways to add color to our pages.  

Students are considered "on pace" for the class after the lesson 7 multiple choice review questions are complete and the web assignments 7a, 7b, and 7c are uploaded to Google Drive by the end of class on Tuesday.

During class on Wednesday, we will review some past web concepts, including how to mark-up text into sections using <div> tags.

What's Going On? October 17th through October 21st

Unit 6: Intro to CSS

At this point in the semester, students have pretty much learned all of the necessary HTML document markup required.  We still could use some more practice marking up sections of text, but so far students have shown a grasp of our basic header, paragraph, list, and image tags.

For a quick review of div tags and how they work to mark up sections of text, you could check out this video:

For lesson 6 we will start modifying the look of our page using CSS.  For this lesson's assignments, we will have our textbook reading along with the accompanying reading guide, our 10 lesson review multiple choice questions and three web pages.  This week all three web assignments will be presented as follow-along tutorials in the textbook.  I highly encourage students to READ about the changes they are making to the code so that when it comes time to make these changes on our own, we understand the reasoning behind the code syntax.

Students are considered "on pace" for the class if the lesson 6 assignments are complete by the end of our class on Tuesday/Wednesday.  Students who need additional time in the lab are encouraged to come in early (the lab opens at 7am) or during their lunch period.

After lesson 6 is complete, we will move on to lesson 7 where we will learn about how to make more changes to color and backgrounds using CSS.