Dino class blog

Per 1 & 3 - Intro to Web Design

Daily Journal

View at least 2 portfolios of high school students here.

Comment on these portfolios:

1. What content did you see? (movies, designs, web sites?)
2. What tools did the student use to create the content?
3. Describe at least one suggestion for improvement.

Classwork
Complete dream business site in Dreamweaver

Home Page:

-4 rollover text buttons linking to these pages:
• shop online
• about us
• two pages of your own that relate to your site
• text or background changes on the over and down state of the buttons
• all buttons are named and have links to the other pages you will design

-Home page is inviting and has short description of what business does


4 site pages:
• shop online page:
◦ at least 4 photos of product offerings with appropriate text descriptions

• about us and two pages of your own that relate to your site:
◦ at least one graphic
◦ text description appropriate for the page
(for example: see sweet creations site)

Mr. Dino is out today - please represent yourselves and the Computer Magnet well today; treat any guest in the magnet as you would like to be treated.

Do the daily journal then see the classwork for your specific class below.



Daily Journal - all classes today

Job research task: using an internet job site, find/research the following information: (you must use your own words! Do not copy and paste)

Questions to research and answer:
* Describe your dream job/career
* What are the technical requirements for job (do you need to know Flash? MS word?)
* What are the education requirements for job (college or other?)
* What is the average salary for this job in Colorado (you will have to also research this on the job site)
* List your source of information (where did you get your info?)


Job sites: www.monster.com, www.careerbuilder.com, or http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/


Per 1 & 3 - Intro to Web Design

Daily Journal - see journal at top/start of blog

Classwork:

Make sure you have completed the assignments from last week (details are on class web site):

• Critique your peers business home pages

• Complete the hands on masking exercise in Fireworks and turn in

• Export your dream business site into Dreamweaver

Per 2 - Intro to Computer Magnet

Daily Journal - see journal at top/start of blog

Note: start a new document for your daily journals


Classwork:

Complete the Discover Zone activities for Communication and Listening


* Answer these questions in your daily journal:
* Do you tend to get into a lot of arguments? If so, why do you think this is?
* Think back to the last time you had a disagreement with someone. What caused you to disagree? Do you think better listening skills could have helped either side? Explain.



Per.4 - Pathways


Daily Journal - see journal at top/start of blog

Classwork - Bob Kois visiting for Project Managment talk


Per 6 - Advanced Web Design 2

Daily Journal - see journal at top/start of blog


Classwork:

Remember: Faculty Profiles Assignment are due 1/28/05 (this Friday!) see class web site for more.

• Flash Portfolio - submit at end of class (only .swf file)

name: student_name_folio.swf
put in Advanced WebDesign2 drop box


• minimum features:

• custom artwork (either borrowed with credits or designed by yourself)
• words as buttons (custom buttons)
• scrollpane component (tutorial here), showing screenshots of your class/school projects
• actionscript
• navigation throughout the movie!
• see Mr. Dino's example here