Webmaster: 6th grade Week one: Introduction to course Pretest for typing skill (via www.typingweb.com) Pretest for web knowledge (http://www.explorit.org/quiz/techhist/quiz_tech_hist.html) Overview of how computers work. Overview of how the internet works.
Week two: History of the web and computing. Pretest and Assessment: http://www.insidetech.com/videos/quizzes/show/45 Internet history project. Scholars will select an event from the following list to create an in depth project about: The start of the internet (Launch of Sputnik) J.C.R. Licklider, The person credited with the original idea for the internet. ARPANET Development of Ethernet The Domain Name System Early Internet based viruses, such as “The Creeper� Early Internet companies Development of search engines Early web browsers Development of the WWW.
Week three: Finish projects. Presentation of projects. Week four: HTML Basics in Dreamweaver Notes Practical practice Web critique
Week five: Web layout Week six: Levels of Interest Every person has a certain level of interest in every web page. This may be: no interest some interest strong interest Unfortunately, most of your audience will only have some interest. This may be due to limited time or a basic lack of interest. How often have you needed to know something but not particularly wanted to? Users may already know the information or may be seeking knowledge in a similar but slightly different area. The levels of interest can be more clearly defined: no interest title only one sentence summary one paragraph summary major points minor points detailed interest thirst for more information Week seven, eight, and nine: Creation of website for each scholar. The subject of their site will be academic in nature and will demonstrate their knowledge of the core subject areas. See attached rubric. Also, post test for web knowledge.
Web Site Design : Website Creation Project

Student Name: CATEGORY
Interest
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The author has made an exceptional attempt to make the
The author has tried to make the content of this Web site
The author has put lots of information in the Web site but there is
The author has provided only the minimum amount of
content of this Web site interesting to the people for whom it is intended.
interesting to the people for whom it is intended.
little evidence that the person tried to present the information in an interesting way.
Content
The site has a well-stated clear purpose and theme that is carried out throughout the site.
The purpose and theme of the site is somewhat muddy or vague.
Content Accuracy
All information provided by the student on the Web site is accurate and all the requirements of the assignment have been met. All links point to high quality, up-todate, credible sites.
The site has a clearly stated purpose and theme, but may have one or two elements that do not seem to be related to it. Almost all the information provided by the student on the Web site is accurate and all requirements of the assignment have been met. Almost all links point to high quality, up-to-date, credible sites.
Graphics are related to the theme/purpos e of the site, are thoughtfully
Graphics are related to the theme/purpos e of the site, are of good quality and
Graphics are related to the theme/purpos e of the site, and are of good quality.
Links (content)
Graphics
Almost all of the information provided by the student on the Web site is accurate and almost all of the requirements have been met. Most links point to high quality, up-todate, credible sites.
information and has not transformed the information to make it more interesting to the audience (e.g., has only provided a list of links to the content of others). The site lacks a purpose and theme.
There are several inaccuracies in the content provided by the students OR many of the requirements were not met.
Less than 3/4 of the links point to high quality, up-todate, credible sites. Graphics seem randomly chosen, are of low quality, OR distract
Color Choices
cropped, are of high quality and enhance reader interest or understandin g. Colors of background, fonts, unvisited and visited links form a pleasing palette, do not detract from the content, and are consistent across pages.
enhance reader interest or understandin g.
Colors of background, fonts, unvisited and visited links do not detract from the content, and are consistent across pages.
the reader.
Colors of background, fonts, unvisited and visited links do not detract from the content.
Colors of background, fonts, unvisited and visited links make the content hard to read or otherwise distract the reader.