Thursday, January 19, 2006
1/19/06
Daily Journal
Read the following passage on social mobility, then answer the following questions:
- what do you think social mobility means?
- what do you think? If you're born into wealth or poverty, do you stay there throughout life? Explain.
"But more and more evidence from social scientists suggests that American society is much “stickier” than most Americans assume. Some researchers claim that social mobility is actually declining. A classic social survey in 1978 found that 23% of adult men who had been born in the bottom fifth of the population (as ranked by social and economic status) had made it into the top fifth. Earl Wysong of Indiana University and two colleagues recently decided to update the study. They compared the incomes of 2,749 father-and-son pairs from 1979 to 1998 and found that few sons had moved up the class ladder. Nearly 70% of the sons in 1998 had remained either at the same level or were doing worse than their fathers in 1979. The biggest increase in mobility had been at the top of society, with affluent sons moving upwards more often than their fathers had. They found that only 10% of the adult men born in the bottom quarter had made it to the top quarter.
The Economic Policy Institute also argues that social mobility has declined since the 1970s. In the 1990s 36% of those who started in the second-poorest 20% stayed put, compared with 28% in the 1970s and 32% in the 1980s. In the 1970s 12% of the population moved from the bottom fifth to either the fourth or the top fifth. In the 1980s and 1990s the figures shrank to below 11% for both decades. The figure for those who stayed in the top fifth increased slightly but steadily over the three decades, reinforcing the sense of diminished social mobility." From the Economist, 12/29/04
Classwork
- Your Business Home Pages are due today - see instructions below.
Dreamweaver Intro with Town Site
- follow handout and instruction
Requirements for Personal Business Site Home Page Design
-have at least two masks
-paragraph of text describing your business or service
-at least 2 buttons with rollovers
-at least 2 buttons from an existing graphic
-2 disjointed rollovers
-one hotspot with an actual website link
Remember:
-spell check and preview your page
-put fireworks.png file in drop box (IntermWebDesign) at end of class:
-file name: student_name_bus.png
Resources:
-disjointed rollover (www.atomiclearning.com; username: aacte06; password: atomic)
-go to fireworksMX2004 tutorials and view all tuorials under the section under B. Web Image Techniques
Image Techniques
-how to mask
-other fireworks tips here
Video Learning
Note: once you turn in your home page, view the following tutorials at atomic learning:
- go to fireworksMX2004 tutorials and view:
- all tuorials under section B. Web Image Techniques (6 tutorials)
- view all tutuorials under section F. Exporting (5 tutorials)
- go to DreamweaverMX2004-Intro tutorials
- Review section A.Basics (17 tutorials)
P3 - Advanced Web Design2
Daily Journal
Read the following passage on social mobility, then answer the following questions:
- what do you think social mobility means?
- what do you think? If you're born into wealth or poverty, do you stay there throughout life? Explain.
"But more and more evidence from social scientists suggests that American society is much “stickier” than most Americans assume. Some researchers claim that social mobility is actually declining. A classic social survey in 1978 found that 23% of adult men who had been born in the bottom fifth of the population (as ranked by social and economic status) had made it into the top fifth. Earl Wysong of Indiana University and two colleagues recently decided to update the study. They compared the incomes of 2,749 father-and-son pairs from 1979 to 1998 and found that few sons had moved up the class ladder. Nearly 70% of the sons in 1998 had remained either at the same level or were doing worse than their fathers in 1979. The biggest increase in mobility had been at the top of society, with affluent sons moving upwards more often than their fathers had. They found that only 10% of the adult men born in the bottom quarter had made it to the top quarter.
The Economic Policy Institute also argues that social mobility has declined since the 1970s. In the 1990s 36% of those who started in the second-poorest 20% stayed put, compared with 28% in the 1970s and 32% in the 1980s. In the 1970s 12% of the population moved from the bottom fifth to either the fourth or the top fifth. In the 1980s and 1990s the figures shrank to below 11% for both decades. The figure for those who stayed in the top fifth increased slightly but steadily over the three decades, reinforcing the sense of diminished social mobility." From the Economist, 12/29/04
Classwork
North High Website re-design.
Map existing North High Website in Inspiration.
Begin new site design in fireworks.
Good School Websites:
P5 - Advanced Web Design2
Daily Journal
Read the following passage on social mobility, then answer the following questions:
- what do you think social mobility means?
- what do you think? If you're born into wealth or poverty, do you stay there throughout life? Explain.
"But more and more evidence from social scientists suggests that American society is much “stickier” than most Americans assume. Some researchers claim that social mobility is actually declining. A classic social survey in 1978 found that 23% of adult men who had been born in the bottom fifth of the population (as ranked by social and economic status) had made it into the top fifth. Earl Wysong of Indiana University and two colleagues recently decided to update the study. They compared the incomes of 2,749 father-and-son pairs from 1979 to 1998 and found that few sons had moved up the class ladder. Nearly 70% of the sons in 1998 had remained either at the same level or were doing worse than their fathers in 1979. The biggest increase in mobility had been at the top of society, with affluent sons moving upwards more often than their fathers had. They found that only 10% of the adult men born in the bottom quarter had made it to the top quarter.
The Economic Policy Institute also argues that social mobility has declined since the 1970s. In the 1990s 36% of those who started in the second-poorest 20% stayed put, compared with 28% in the 1970s and 32% in the 1980s. In the 1970s 12% of the population moved from the bottom fifth to either the fourth or the top fifth. In the 1980s and 1990s the figures shrank to below 11% for both decades. The figure for those who stayed in the top fifth increased slightly but steadily over the three decades, reinforcing the sense of diminished social mobility." From the Economist, 12/29/04
Classwork
Create a website in Flash8-start with Mr. Dino's example, then begin your own portfolio site
Your personal portfolio today:
-put your resume into a scrolling text box
-load a flash video/movie (your day in the life video/movie from last semester)
- buttons: home, about, projects, one of your choosing (interests, etc.)
- flash buttons need to have a movie clip on them
- program buttons with actionscript
Resources
- Atomic Learning ((www.atomiclearning.com; username: aacte06; password: atomic)
- Web Color Gallery-pick a color set from this page
- Color Palette Guide - pick similar colors from this site
