Business & Technology Department Unit Plan for Course Name
Unit 4 Title: Web Design using Web Page Design
Software
Unit Length: 10
weeks
Date Create:
Spring 2010
Goals/Standards/Benchmarks:
NETS-S
1: Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students:
a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.
b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression.
2: Communication and Collaboration
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute
to the learning of others. Students:
a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.
b. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.
d. contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.
3: Research and Information Fluency
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students:
b. locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media.
c. evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks.
4: Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital
tools and resources. Students:
a. identify and define authentic problems and significant questions for investigation.
b. plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project.
c. collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions.
d. use multiple processes and diverse perspectives to explore alternative solutions.
6: Technology Operations and Concepts
Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations. Students:
a. understand and use technology systems.
b. select and use applications effectively and productively.
c. troubleshoot systems and applications.
d. transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies.
21st Century Skills
LEARNING AND INNOVATION SKILLS
CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION SKILLS
 Demonstrating originality and inventiveness in work
 Developing, implementing and communicating new ideas to others
 Being open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives
 Acting on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the domain in which the innovation occurs
CRITICAL THINKING AND PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS
 Exercising sound reasoning in understanding
 Making complex choices and decisions
 Understanding the interconnections among systems
 Framing, analyzing, and synthesizing information in order to solve problems and answer questions
COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION SKILLS
 Articulating thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively through speaking and writing
 Demonstrating ability to work effectively with diverse teams
 Exercising flexibility and willingness to be helpful in making necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal
 Assuming shared responsibility for collaborative work
INFORMATION, MEDIA, AND TECHNOLOGY SKILLS
INFORMATION LITERACY
 Accessing information efficiently and effectively, evaluating information critically and competently, and using information accurately and creatively for
the issue or problem at hand
 Possessing a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of information
MEDIA LITERACY
 Understanding how media messages are constructed, for what purposes, and using which tools, characteristics, and conventions.
 Examining how individuals interpret messages differently, how values and points of view are included or excluded, and how media can influence beliefs
and behaviors.
 Possessing a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of information
ICT LITERACY
 Using digital technology, communication tools and/or networks appropriately to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, and create information in order to
function in a knowledge economy
 Using technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate and communicate information, and the possession of a fundamental understanding of the
ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of information
Illinois State Standards:??
Unit Overview
Unit Components:
Stage 1: Desired Results
UNDERSTANDINGS
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
Vocabulary : Key terminology
Creating a
Web Page in Design Mode
Adding Web Pages,
Links, and Images
Screen Resolution
Workspace
Design, Code, Split
View
Title Bar
Panel Groups
Insert Bar
Property Inspector
Tag Selector
Menu Bar
Document toolbar
Background Image
Files Panel
Formatting
Absolute link
Animation
Banner
JPEG
Logos
Named Anchor
Heading Styles
Page Properties
Color Picker
Eyedropper
Path
Assets panel
Index page
Bitmap
Buttons
Canvas
Cropping
Email Link
Export
GIF
PNG
Relative link
Rollover Image
Standard Toolbar
Site
Home Page
Image Map
Invisible Element
Marker
Transparency
Vector
Remote/Local Site
Root Folder
Site Definition
Site Map
Target
Transform
Rule of Thirds
Page Layout
Behaviors
Border
Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS)
Cellpadding
Cellspacing
DIV
Form/ Editable Region
List/Menu/Jump Menu
Page Layout
Radio Group/Radio
Button/Checkbox
Reset Button
Publish a Web Site
Accessibility
Audience
Client
Standard mode
Submit Button
Text Field
Site Map
Splash Page
Storyboard
Company-Centered
Customer-Centered
Designer
Heuristic Evaluation
Homepage
Hypertext
Iterative Design
Navigation
Pattern
WYSIWYG
Knowledge and Skills:
Student “I Can Statements”
Assessment/Evidence
 Explore modern web design/development software and
concepts (Dreamweaver or Expressions)
 Describe and identify its key features of the web page design
software program
 Develop technical skills using Expression Web
 Identify the components of the web page design software
windows and workspaces.
 Format and modify text elements on a Web Page
 Insert, resize, and align images within a Web Page
 Understand and plan page layout
 Modify a table structure
 Create a form and use the attributes to give it a professional
look
 Explain the concept of AP elements
 Create a navigation bar and image map
 Identify concepts, properties, tools, and panels related to the
infrastructure of creating a webpage
 Identify ways to enhance web pages by formatting images to
increase visual effect.
 Identify the correct method to link corresponding document,
media, external site, or a place within the same document
 Navigate to locate appropriate commands to enhance web
pages
 Add interaction with a web page user by utilizing form features
in the web page design software program
Stage 2: Assessment Evidence
Selected Response--Multiple choice quizzes and tests
Selected Response--Multiple choice quizzes and tests
Product—completed web pages
Process--discussion
Selected Response--Multiple choice quizzes and tests
Product—completed web pages
Process--discussion
Process—Observations
Selected Response--Multiple choice quizzes and tests
Performance—Design/organize a website
Selected Response—Quessing Quiz
Product—completed web pages
Process--discussion
Performance—Design/organize a website
Selected Response—Quessing Quiz
Product—completed web pages
Process--discussion
Performance—Design/organize a website
Product—completed web pages
Process--discussion
Performance—Design/organize a website
Performance—Design/organize a website
Process-Observations
Performance—Design/organize a website
Selected Response—Quessing Quiz
Selected Response--Multiple choice quizzes and tests
Product—completed web pages
Process--discussion
Selected Response--Multiple choice quizzes and tests
Product—completed web pages
Process--discussion
Selected Response--Multiple choice quizzes and tests
Product—completed web pages
Process--discussion
Selected Response--Multiple choice quizzes and tests
Product—completed web pages
Process--discussion
Selected Response--Multiple choice quizzes and tests
Product—completed web pages
Process--discussion
List point values for each assignments here…
Assessment
Parks ch1
Lawns ch1
Candles ch1
Parks ch2
Usability
User
Workflow
Suggested Points
5
10
10
5
Category/Weight
Production
Production
Production
Production
Lawns ch2
Candles ch2
Parks Ch3
Lawns Ch3
Candles ch3
Parks Ch5
Lawns Ch5
Candles ch5
Parks ch6
Lawns ch6
Candles ch6
Quessing Quiz
Client Final Project
DW Unit Test
10
10
5
10
10
5
10
10
5
10
10
30
100
60
Production
Production
Production
Production
Production
Production
Production
Production
Production
Production
Production
Quiz
Production
5 points each=100
Test
points
Performace Task Summary
Parks Ch 1-6
Lawns Ch 1-6
Candles Ch 1-6
Quessing Quiz
Client Project
DW Unit Test
Quessing Quiz
Rubric Titles
Client Project Rubric
Self-Assessment
Stage 3: Learning Activities
Other Evidence, Summarized