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Standards XI
Web Mastering
The Web mastering teacher has the knowledge and skills needed to teach the Foundations, Information Acquisition, Work in Solving Problems, Communication strands of the Technology Applications Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) in Web mastering, in addition to the content described in Technology Applications Standards I-V.
Although I had created several web pages in
the past, I knew I still had much to learn about
creating web pages. Before taking this
course I had not had any training on the correct
way to create a web page/site. I enjoyed the
creative process of starting a web site from
scratch, learning the different aspects of
creating a good web site and seeing it through
to the final product.
My goals for the future include learning
techniques that will improve my ability to
create effective web sites and to teach students
to create web sites using correct standards,
incorporate animation and graphics, user
friendly navigation techniques, file
compression, cross-platform issues, and apply
the principles and elements of design to the web
pages.
Artifact #2 /
Artifact #15
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Caption 2
Indicators: TA TEKS: 7.9s, 7.15s,
7.32s, 9.15s, 9.21s, 10.9s, 11.1s, 11.2s, 11.3s, 11.4s, 11.7s, 11.9s, 11.10s, 11.7k, 11.11s, 11.12s, 11.13s, 11.14s, 11.18s, 11.19s, 11.20s, 11.21s, 11.23s, 11.25s, 11.26s, 11,27s, 11.28s, 11.29s, 11.30s, 11.32s, 11.34s,11.35s,
11.39s
Artifact #2
Descriptors: Web Authoring, Photo
Editing, Graphics Compression, Logo Creation
Title: Discussion 4: Web Site Design
Course: 102 Web Mastery: Module 3-Evaluating
Web Sites
Date Created: September 29, 2002
Source: Module instructions
Media: Web Page, FrontPage XP,
Graphics Workshop, Photoshop, Inspiration
Description: For this artifact we were
to develop a simple web site of at least three
pages for a travel company about one or more of
their most traveled destinations. The
website had to include:
 | The navigational schemes of
'bread crumbs', global navigation, parallel
navigation, and local navigation.
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| A tone for the site such
serious corporate, cartoon, kids, community
oriented or trendy/contemporary. |
| Storyboard |
| Home Page |
| Company services provided |
| Map/s |
| Office hours |
| Links to appropriate
external sites |
| A site map |
| Travel company logo |
| Photos with graphic files
optimized |
| At least three pages |
| Results of one of the
testing items performed on one page of the
site |
| Extra HTML navigational
features credit for rollover buttons and flash
file |
I choose 'serious corporate' as the theme of
the site. I created a logo consisting of a red
sunset with the company name 'Far Horizons'
written in the sky. I searched through several
free photograph sites and found pictures of
various vacation sites to add to the web site.
We were required to include maps so I found one
of Texas and marked the spot that the company
business was located. We had to create a
storyboard and I used Inspiration to make mine.
I created a web site that had six web pages,
plus two documentation pages that met the
requirements of this activity. The pages
included a home page, company services provided,
office hours, external and internal links, and a
site map. At least one page of the web site was
tested for cross platform issues.
Rationale: Through the creation
of the major project and the different
activities of the web mastery modules, I learned
how cross platform formats are a concern, how some
knowledge of HTML can help you tweak your site,
and how the use of the different types of
navigation make traveling through a web site
much easier. I learned about elements of
web design, the importance of compressing
graphic images and web security issues.
One of the main goals that I wanted to achieve
in this project was to get a basic background of
correct web construction and an awareness of web
design. I believe that this goal was
accomplished as the artifact will show.
Now I want to take this basic knowledge and
continue to build upon it and increase my skills
at web mastery.
Implications for future: This
course helped me be aware several important
issues to teach in my future web classes. It
also taught me the value of breaking down the
big project into smaller sections so the process is not overwhelming to the student.
I am the webmaster for our school web site and
one of my future goals is to use
the knowledge I have gained from this course and improve the web site.
My daughter has asked me to help build a web
site and logo for the company she is fixing to
start, so I can see challenges ahead that this
course will help me with besides the education
aspects.
Reviewers Comments:
You did a beautiful
job of designing your web site. I
especially like the crisp images and
simple color schemes that you chose. They
enhance you site to make it look very
appealing and easy to understand and
navigate. Great Job!
Review Name: Kayla D Steiner
Title: TATC Course Instructor
Date Reviewed: 10/01/02
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Caption
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Indicators: Standards I-V;
TA TEKS: 7.7s, 7.8s, 7.9s, 7.11s, 7.12s,
7.17s, 7.48s, 8.14s, 8.34s, 8.35s, 8.38s, 8.39s,
9.27s, 9.28s, 10.9s, 10.11s, 11.9s, 11.10s,
11.11s, 11.13s, 11.14s, 11.16s, 11.24s, 11.26s,
11.29s, 11.32s, 11.35s, 11.38s, 11.39s
Artifact #15
Descriptors: Internet Research, Web
Site Evaluation, Functionality, Navigational
Scheme, Content Evaluation
Title: Discussion 1: Evaluating a Site
for Content and Functionality
Course: 102 Web Mastery: Module 3-Evaluating Web Sites
Date Created: September 21, 2002
Source: Module Instructions
Media: Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat
Description: In this activity we were
to select a topic of interest and locate several
web sites related to that topic. Then we
were to use the list of questions from the
Interactive Guides 1-3 and 2-3 to evaluate the
information in the sites for their content and
functionality. We were to provide a link to one
site that would be evaluated as reliable and to
one site that was evaluated as unreliable.
We were to evaluate for functionality,
navigational scheme used and read the
evaluations posted from our classmates.
Some of the things we were to look for were:
| Download time |
| Any broken links |
| Date site created |
| Date site updated |
| Alt text used for images |
| Site information current |
| Site sponsored |
| Author gain from site |
| Multimedia |
| Text matching message |
| Spelling/grammar errors |
| Navigational ease |
Rationale: I included this artifact as
a representation of my ability to evaluate a web
site for it's functionality and reliability.
This is a distinction that students as well as
adults need to be able to make when accessing
web sites for research, information, or
entertainment. As we all know anyone can
put anything up on a web site and try to make
the viewer believe that their information is
reliable. Students need to know what
information to look for on a web site to help
them decide if it is a factual web site with
reliable information or an 'opinion' web site
that is slanted to the web master's point of
view.
Implications for future: This is one
of the skills that I intend to teach my students
both in middle school and in high school,
regardless of the subject area they are
researching. I want the students to be
able to take the questions and look at a web
site to evaluate it for reliability. This could
be one of the most important skills the students
use when doing research in any subject area on
the Internet.
Reviewers Comments:
Awesome job, Sheryl.
I loved the table set-up. Wish I'd have looked
at yours first. Great info!
Review Name: Leah Franco
Title: 2003 TATC Learner
Date Reviewed: September, 2002
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