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)