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A Glimpse of Kim Lowrance

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.

I became a self-taught web page builder last year using Front Page exclusively. I stayed a few pages ahead of my students.  I knew absolutely no html and had never used it until the Password Security assignment that I'm including  as an artifact.  I chose it because I was quite proud of myself for being able to  wade through the assignment and produce the desired results!  I will now be able to incorporate more Java and other scripting elements into my web pages.

Web mastering will probably always be my first love in technology applications because it was my entry way into this field.  I feel the most pride in my work in this area because of the fact that I was primarily self-taught.  However, I have learned so much through Vision and TATC that I look back at my early days and smile at how limited my capacity was!

Artifact #2 / Artifact #4

 

Caption 2

Indicators:  11.15s, 11.37s, 11.36s, 11.22s, 11.3s, 11.7s, 11.17s, 11.23s, 11.29s, 11.32s, 11.33s, 11.35s

Artifact #2

Descriptors:  Password, Security, HTML, Web Page

Title:  Password Design

Course:  101 Web Authoring TATC 02

Date Created:  September 29, 2002

Source:  Microsoft Front Page 2000

Media:  Web Page

Description:  
§ Create a User ID and Password for entry into their main password page.
§ Give a clue to the User ID and/or Password.
§ Give the web address of the password-protected page. 
§ Upon entry into main page, display the word that belongs to the preset phrase.  

Requirements: 
§ Enter the following HTML and Javascript coding into a text file using plain text editor 
§ Design a list of 10 UserID's and a corresponding list of passwords
§ Substitute UserID's and passwords for the ones in the project instructions 
§ Create a second web page file that will be opened with a valid ID and password 
§ Test password file 
§ E-mail the HTML file and the Password PD.rtf file to to turn it in.

Rationale:  
After studying, researching, and discussing security issues on the internet, this assignment was intended to help us learn to use html while learning to create a password secured site.  I chose to include this as an artifact because I was proud of my first html creation and because it covered some very specific ta's that I felt might not be covered in later assignments. I learned that I can master some basic html writing, which was one of my goals for TATC. 

Implications for future:  
I gained confidence by forcing myself to use the html code by conquering the set up of a password site.  I also learned from the discussion on this assignment that what seemed really secure to me seemed very insecure to others because of being able to read the html on the password page.  I plan to incorporate this assignment into my teaching curriculum for all these reasons. I also plan to incorporate more features into my web page design that require a basic knowledge of html, which I didn't have before.

Reviewer's Comments: 
Good job on the password assignment. I like the clues - you made me use my math skills :-). You have the concept down and the page looks very clear and crisp. Thanks for the introduction into password protection.

Reviewer's Name: Rachel Newman

Title:   TATC Instructor

Date Reviewed:  November 1, 2002

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Caption 4

Indicators:7.9s, 9.15s, 10.9s, 11.10s, 11.4s, 11.12s, 11.18s, 11.23s, 11,27s,
11.28s, 11.35s, 11.19s, 11.13s, 11.39s, 11.30s, 11.29, 11.21, 11.17

Artifact #4

Descriptors:  Web Site, Navigation, Storyboard, Site Map, Hyperlinks

Title: Web Site Design

Course:  102 Web Authoring  

Date Created: September 25, 2002

Source: Microsoft Front Page 2000

Media: Web Page

Description:
A travel company has commissioned you to develop a simple site of 3 pages or more about at least ONE of their most traveled destinations. 

Use all three of the following navigation schemes and apply the
 information architecture of "bread crumbs" 
·	Global Navigation 
·	Parallel Navigation 
·	Local Navigation

Select from the list below the tone for the website.
Tone options:
·	Cartoon
·	Kids
·	Community oriented
·	Serious corporate
·	Trendy/contemporary
Provide the following:
·	A Storyboard of the site
·	A Home Page
·	Company Services provided
·	Map/s
·	Office hours
·	Links to appropriate external sites
·	A site map
Include the following elements in the site:
·	Travel company logo
·	Photos ... Graphic files should be optimized 
·	Three pages

Rationale: 
This purpose of this assignment was intended to help us create a simple website that included all possible navigational structures including breadcrumbs, local navigation, global navigation, and parallel navigation.  As part of the assignment we were to optimize graphic files, design a graphic company logo, and develop a specific tone for the site.  I chose to include this as an artifact first because I was pleased with my product, but also because it was my first effort at really focusing on specific forms of navigation.  I felt that I learned a great deal from addressing that specific element of the assignment.

Implications for future: 
Now that I am more aware of the types of navigation, my future web sites, and those of my students, will be much more effective in providing users with alternative ways to browse through the sites we build.  I have already incorporated the principles I have learned through this assignment in the classroom, and I will continue to emphasize the importance of these navigational structures in my teaching.

Reviewer's Comments:
The use of the globe, globetrotters name, and globe background was very clever.   All your pages loaded well.  All links worked.  I thought the use on the globetrotter.net email was unique.  How did you do that?  Do those email just go out into the vast domain lost forever...or do you really have emails here and you built the site to go with this?  Great idea.

The green color was a very mellow touch for the site.  
Basing this on educational tours....will you or the other "specialists"
use this in class.  You should share.  

Reviewer's Name:  Candy Key

Title: TATC 02 Participant

Date Reviewed:  September 28, 2002

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