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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.

Reflection:  I have used FrontPage 2000 and 2002 to design my web sites and pages.  I use it for our school's web site and continue to learn new ways to design with it. I used FrontPage Themes in my Travel Web site and that was a mistake.  I have learned from this mistake!  I will remember to let my students know about it and what to do about it in the future.   I learned a lot about Cascaded Style Sheets, Javascript, and more in the Extended Web Authoring Course.  I plan to continue to learn more in the future by applying what I have learned to our school's web site and from what my students will have to teach me as I teach them.

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Indicators:  Standard I, Standard II, Standard III, Standard IV, 7.2s, 7.3s, 7.4s, 7.6s, 7.7s, 7.8s, 7.9s, 7.10s, 7.15s, 7.16s, 7.17s, 7.22s, 7.23s, 7.24s, 7.31s, 7.32s, 7.33s, 7.34s, 7.35s, 7.36s, 7.37s, 7.38s, 7.44s, 8.5s, 8.13s, 8.14s, 8.15s, 8.17s, 8.18s, 8.19s, 8.20s, 8.21s, 8.22s, 8.24s, 8.25s, 8.33s, 8.34s, 8.35s, 8.38s, 8.39s, 8.40s, 8.43s, 8.44s, 8.45s, 8.47s, 9.11s, 9.13s, 9.15s, 9.16s, 9.20s, 9.21s, 9.24s, 9.25s, 9.26s, 9.27s, 9.29s, 9.35s, 9.38s, 9.39s, 9.40s, 9.43s, 10.9s, 10.16s, 10.37s, 10.38s, 11.1s, 11.2s, 11.3s,11.7s, 11.10s, 11.11s, 11.12s, 11.13s, 11.14s, 11.17s, 11.18s, 11.19s, 11.20s, 11.21s, 11.23s, 11.24s, 11.25s, 11.26s, 11.27s, 11.28s, 11.29s, 11.30s, 11.32s, 11.34s, 11.35s, 11.39s.

Artifact #2

Descriptors: Web site, Navigational layouts, Logo, Site Map, Photos, Site Outline.

Title: Hot Texas Travel

Course: Web Authoring 102

Date Created: September 2002

Source: Individual Project

Media: Web Page

Description: This was an assignment in the TATC Web Authoring course, which was to create a Travel Web site.

Rationale: This Web site was made up to be a Texas Travel Agency.  I used Microsoft Frontpage Themes in creating my made up Travel Web site.  I chose to include this as an artifact because Frontpage Extensions used with Microsoft Frontpage 2002 is not on every web server.  It is important to note what will work with the web server you are going to put a web page onto.  I spent a lot of time getting it all to work on my computer.  It worked on my school's web site which has Frontpage Extensions installed on the web server.  When I installed the web site onto the First Class Server the themes did not work the way they were supposed to.  I learned that not all web servers work with Frontpage 2002, especially themes.  I had time limitations on me and I left the web site the way it was. I learned that Frontpage 2002 is priority to Frontpage extensions and that when using their themes the naming breaks the 8 character rule.  The web server will truncate the name when it goes over the limit of characters, which is what FrontPage does many times. It still works, just not the way it is supposed to.  To avoid the problem, I need to avoid Frontpage Themes or find a third party software to make the file names no more than 8 characters.  I learned that Frontpage Extensions are only used on Microsoft Servers and First Class itself does not support Frontpage Extensions.  This helped me achieve a goal of learning more about Web Servers as to  what is supported, what is not, and how to go about finding out!

Implications for future:  Compatibility with Web servers is a specific learning goal that I have set for myself as a result of this assignment!  I will definitely find out more about the web servers in the future that I will be working with and find out what they support and what they do not support!  I will definitely teach my students this as one of the learning goals to find out about before they start making web pages.

Reviewer's Comments: It is not the FC but the fact that it is a web server.  The basis rules of web development apply to a web server.  No spaces in a file name, 8 characters or less, no caps.  Some servers do not let you break any of those rules (Linux) while others will let you break some of them.  For the surest thing in developing web pages it is best to design by those rules then it will work on any web server.  Frontpage is priority to Frontpage extensions.  Also when using their themes the naming breaks the 8 character rule.  The web server will truncate the name when it goes over the limit of characters which is what FP does many times.  You might consult ElementK to see if one of the courses their helps in renaming the themes.  If you have a site manager in FP you can rename all of your theme folders and file names to fit a shorter name scheme and then it will work fine.

Review Name: Connie Swiderski

Title:  TATC Program Coordinator

Date Reviewed: September 30, 2002

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Indicators: Standard I, Standard II, Standard III, Standard IV, Standard V, 7.2s, 7.3s, 7.4s, 7.6s, 7.7s, 7.8s, 7.9s, 7.10s, 7.11s, 7.14s, 7.15s, 7.16s, 7.17s, 7.22s, 7.24s, 7.25s, 7.26s, 7.27s, 7.28s, 7.31s, 7.32s, 7.33s, 7.34s, 7.36s, 7.37s, 7.38s, 7.41s, 7.44s, 8.1s, 8.2s, 8.3s, 8.4s, 8.7s, 8.9s, 8.10s, 8.11s, 8.13s, 8.14s, 8.15s, 8.17s, 8.18s, 8.19s, 8.20s, 8.21s, 8.22s, 8.24s, 8.25s, 8.31s, 8.33s, 8.34s, 8.35s, 8.38s, 8.40s, 8.41s, 8.44s, 8.45s, 8.47s, 9.3s, 9.4s, 9.5s, 9.6s, 9.8s, 9.9s, 9.10s, 9.11s, 9.13s, 9.15s, 9.16s, 9.17s, 9.18s, 9.20s, 9.21s, 9.24s, 9.25s, 9.26s, 9.27s, 9.28s, 9.29S, 9.35s, 9.38s, 9.39s, 9.40s, 9.41s, 9.42s, 9.43s, 10.2s, 10.9s, 10.11s, 10.16s, 10.28s, 10.30s, 10.37s, 10.38s, 10.40s, 10.41s, 11.1s, 11.2s, 11.3s, 11.4s, 11.7s, 11.10s, 11.11s, 11.12s, 11.13s, 11.14s, 11.16s, 11.17s, 11.18s, 11.19s, 11.20s, 11.21s, 11.23s, 11.24s, 11.25s, 11.26s, 11.27s, 11.28s, 11.29s, 11.30s, 11.31s, 11.32s, 11.33s, 11.34s, 11.35s, 11.38s, 11.39s
 

Artifact #4

Descriptors: Create, Design, Organize, External Cascading Style Sheets, Publish.

Title: Teacher Help Web Site

Course: 202 Extended Web Authoring

Date Created: December 2, 2002

Source: Individual Project

Media: Web Site

Description: The idea was to create a web site designed for a group of users in my school district in order to help them create a web site.

Rationale: The Teacher Help Web Site was designed for helping teachers to go to a web site and follow step by step instructions to produce their own basic web site.  I had to create the web site using an external cascaded style sheet that was linked to each page of the web site.  The CSS was new to me and I had some difficulty getting the big picture of how it fit all together.   I finally figured it out with some help from my classmates, was able to put it together, and understand what I was doing.  It is always a plus to know different ways to put web pages together and this is the case with CSS.

I am including this artifact because it involves a deeper understanding of Web Authoring.  Most people know how to make a web page, but when you start talking about Cascading Style Sheets, they look at you funny.  Now that I know how CSS works, I will be able to take advantage of the knowledge gained to produce better web pages and sites.

Implications for future:  As a teacher, my job is to understand all there is to know about what I am teaching.  Learning about Cascading Style Sheets and Frames was a specific learning goal of mine at the start of the Extended Web Authoring Course.  This Teacher Web Site will serve two purposes for me: 1) an example for my students on how to use CSS and 2) an example for my teachers on how to make their own web site.

Reviewer's Comments: Your teacher help site is very well organized.  The color scheme is easy on the eyes and the screen shots help to clarify the instructions.  The step-by-step instructions are clear and concise.  You have done a great job of creating a simple help site for creating a web site.

Review Name:  Mark Romine

Title: Director of Technology, Panther Creek ISD

Date Reviewed: December 17, 2002

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