Starting on February 19th we will have a short unit on HTML. This unit will be different than the last three which have all been independent learning.
You will need to listen to a presentation, post answers to some questions, and work on a small web page.
It is very important that you keep up with the lessons. It is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to make sure that you finish every lesson.
The lessons will be:
Intro to HTML - What it is!
CSS - The River of Style
Accessibility - Reading without Seeing
Tables and Frames - Not Woodworking!
Media - Streams of Consciousness
Tools - Websites for the Codeless
Evaluation - How Do They Measure Up!
If you want to start working on your six weeks exam, you can get started now.
The six weeks exam will consist of two parts: Part one is presenting one image from Illustrator, one image from Photoshop and one short animation. For part one, you should take a finished document from a lesson in the application, and alter it significantly. Then you write a blog post about what you did, detailing the changes, tools and techniques that you used. The blog post must be at least five sentences, with the more detail the better. Grading for this section will be kind of backwards! You will begin with a 70 if you have five sentences. Then for every term, tool and technique included in your description, you get one additional point.
Part two is another summary. You need to write a summary of the seven lessons of the HTML unit and then write a piece about how they tie together. This part of the exam will be graded based on insight. What is insight? Insight is knowledge that you gain by thinking about and examining an idea. If you took a cup of water on a very windy day and threw the water in the direction the wind is coming from, you would soon gain a valuable insight - and you would get wet. Again you will start at a 70 for writing at least two five sentence paragraphs and the summary of each lesson. You will get TEN points for each insight that you write about in the last two paragraphs.
So the exam will go like this:
PART ONE
Three altered documents, one each from Illustrator, Photoshop and Flash, and a description of each and what you changed = 70 points
Terms, tools and techniques included in the three descriptions = one point for each term, tool or technique. If you get 20 points this way, you get a 10 points bonus.
PART TWO
Summary of the seven lessons on HTML = 70 points
Insight you gained from HTML lessons and the summary = 10 points each.
You will be allowed to get higher than a 200 out of 200 on this exam, but it will still be out of 200. This means if you get a 250, that you will raise your exam average significantly. When's the last time you got to blow the top score off of an exam?!?
You will need work to finish as many lessons in Flash as you can. The person who finishes the most lessons in each class gets 30 extra points on the exam. Woohoo!
