branding

For your self promotion website you have to find and analyse 2-4 existing websites that promote self in some way

Include annotated screenshots and discuss from the point of view of contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity

Here are some general websites that discuss the idea of self promotion and branding. Search for others closer to the theme of what your personal website will be about.

Philip Nel's Shameless self promotion

SSW Rules to Better Branding

good

Quo

Stealing share

banner headlines

images not uploading at the moment, error at blogger end?

HTML reference

You can always look up how to do HTML on the web!

Using tables to do layout
I'll do it this way this year because it is easier than the pure css approach. My students will have more control over the page using table layout.

HTML tag quick reference guide

w3 schools site

cyber bullying article

We read an article about cyberbullying from The Advertiser and discussed it.

Some students shared their experiences of being bullied either by SMS messages or in one case identify theft - taking over an email account and then sending out messages to the victim's friends.

I asked for a show of hands about whether bullying was worse offline or online and the majority said it was worse offline

I asked students to say what they had learnt from reading the article and to recount some of the experiences told to the class.

I also asked them to address a couple of questions:

• Is it easier to be anonymous online than offline?
• Is bullying more of a problem in cyber space or face to face?

They are to write about this in their blogs and the deadline is Monday 26th February

my HW upset

I was upset at the poor HW response of students, only 5 out of 21 made a good effort at it.

I talked politely about this to the students, seeking individual responses. Some said that they had heavy commitments in other subjects and also work commitments. Others said they had difficulty with blogger access, ie. logging on or no access at home. Some looked a bit embarrassed and others just said "too bad".

One thing that emerged was that other teachers set a clear deadline for HW and that since I had not done that some students had put that other HW first, ahead of mine.

So, I asked them again to do it and have just marked it then. Now I have 10 students out of 21 have made a reasonable effort.

It's not quite as bad as it looks because I do have a group of students in the class who are new arrivals from African countries who seem to have never used computers before arriving in Australia maybe 2 or 3 years ago. When I go through the list I think there are only 2 0r 3 there who simply chose not to do the HW, after a bit of nagging from me.

w3schools site: HTML

HTML Tutorial
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

Questions (copy, paste and answer in your blog):

1. HTML files must end with what letters?
2. What does the / mean in a tag, for example, <p> blah blah </p>
3. Everything that appears on the web page itself goes in between what tag?
4. Where does the information inside the <title> rocket science </title> tag appear?
5. Name three browsers
6. What does a browser do to the HTML?
7. Should tags be written in UPPER CASE or lower case?
8. What is an attribute? Give two examples of tags with attributes naming both the tag and the attributes.
9. How do you add comments in HTML?
10. Why do you add comments in HTML?
11. If you have 7 spaces in your HTML page then how many spaces will appear in the browser view?
12. So, how do you add extra white space on your web page?
13. In HTML version 4 the bold tag <b> has been replaced with <strong> and the italic tag <i> has been replaced with emphasis <em>. Explain why.
14. What does url stand for?
15. Provide an example of a url?
16. Keep doing the HTML quiz until you get full marks. Then capture the results image, crop it and paste it into your blog

course outline

FYI, here is an overview of the whole course! Please read this and plan ahead. Then the teacher can sit in the staffroom and drink coffee while you guys do all the work! Dream on.

STAGE 2 INFORMATION PROCESSING AND PUBLISHING: ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING

Assessment Component 1: Practical Skills (40%)

Task 1A (20%):

Develop a web reference manual for HTML and CSS. (20%)

pages: menu, simple HTML tags, other HTML tags with attributes, form tags, CSS

Task 1B (20%):

Develop a website about the multicultural aspect of Woodville High School. This will includes accurate information and a survey

pages: menu, information, survey

Assessment Component 2: Designing and Skills Applications (30%)

Task 2:

Develop a web site to promote yourself. This could take a number of forms.

• It could be about your family and friends, including interests, hobbies. The audience would be your family or friends.

• You could promote yourself for a career (skills, experience, career aspirations). You would include this as part of your CV when applying for jobs.

The website must be 6-10 pages, including a home page

Consistent easy to use navigation throughout the site

Must contain text, graphics, animations, an interactive form and sound files

This requires:

investigation – eg. Find and analyse other sites (2-4 examples) that have done this – 250 words

devising -write an imaginative, innovative plan of what you will do before you do it – 250 words

production – produce a well designed web site based on your plan.

evaluation – evaluate what you have achieved against what you planned to achieve – 400 words

communication – document what you have done clearly, the important decisions you made along the way

(total of 250 + 250 + 400 = 900 words)

Assessment Component 3: Issues Analysis (15%, made of 10% content / analysis and 5% presentation)

Task 3:

Develop an opinion piece about on line bullying or harassment. Publish as a well designed web page. Describe the issue, provide relevant information and suggest a solution or solutions to the problem. (maximum of 500 words)

Assessment Component 4: Technical and Operational Understanding (15%)

Task 4:

Scenario:

http://technorati.com/ technorati

http://technorati.com/pop/blogs most popular blogs

What is technorati? What service are they offering? How do they do work out which blogs are most popular? Describe the underlying technology. Demonstrate your understanding of these terms in your answer:

• the blogosphere – how big, how fast is it growing?

• bloggers – what is a blogger?

• humans read blogs and machines read blogs

• machine to machine communication

• RSS feeds – what are they?

• separation of structure (XHTML) from style (CSS) in web pages

• aggregation – what is it?

(maximum of 750 words or an oral presentation or a podcast of 8 minutes)

welcome!

This blog is to help students with their Information Processing and Publishing (Electronic Publishing) in Bill Kerr's 2007 Stage 2 Class.

Good luck!

Now, what does HTML and CSS stand for?
Who is the wonderful person with the initials TBL?