Show Us Your BLOG

Comment to this Post and include:

Name: First name and last initial
Blog Title: The title or topic of their Blog
Blog URL: the URL or web address of your Blog

BLOG Rubric - you will be graded as follows:

• above info in a comment below (20) - list all 3 things.
• unique formatting (30) - fits your skill level. Spelling and grammar matter.
• at least 3 Posts (30) - each should be a different and interesting topic.
• at least 20 comments from others (20) - you may want to encourage others to visit your blog. It helps to have an interesting title and Posts.

Example:
Name: Mr. Turton
Topic: College Computer Applications
URL: http://da106-compapps.blogspot.com/

After a while visit this site again check the comments with links, and go to someone else's Blog.
Comment to their Post. Eventually we will be voting on who's is the best. The winner from each class will earn an added project grade of 102 for their final marking period average. Votes from students in any class of Mr. Turton's count.

What I Learned This Week ...

The purpose of this post is to develop a collection of what my students feel is the most important thing they learned related to Web Design during the week. You are required to add a comment each week (or more often). Two comments in one week do not count for two weeks, but you will gain a professionalism point for each extra.

Follow the format below when commenting to get full credit. I suggest copying and pasting the format below into your comment. Use complete sentences and other characteristics of good grammar.

Topic: What were we covering or which project are/were we working on?
Skill: What did you learned to do, or better, or differently?
Source: Where did you get the skill? For example you might list a web site here.
Use: How you intend to use the new skill in the future?

Identify a Well-Designed Web Page

The web is, first and foremost, about content. But we cannot separate content from form. That is, the design of a page is as much a part of its content as the text and images on it. So, as we begin our exploration of web authoring, it's important for us to have a common language to discuss design.
The goal of this assignment is to use that common language to discuss the design of actual sites. But before we get to that, let's start with some intuition:
Find a page you think is well-designed. This can be any page you know and visit, or it can be a page you happen upon while surfing something like Cool Homepages (http://coolhomepages.com).
Comment to this Post and write a paragraph or two (or more) about the design. Essentially, answer the question "What makes this good?"
When you comment, use your first name and last initial only.

Internet Dangers

The purpose of this post is to advise other students about a specific internet danger that you have researched and are familiar with. For full credit include the types of information shown in the example below. You could even copy and paste the example, then replace my info with your own.Read the other comments and make your's original.

EXAMPLE
Danger: Criminals use computer technology to obtain large amounts of personal data such as passwords or even banking information.
Prevention: Do NOT respond to "spam" ­ unsolicited E-mail ­ that promises them some benefit but requests identifying data, without realizing that in many cases, the requester has no intention of keeping his promise.
Source: Dept of Justice Website.
URL: http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/idtheft.html#What%20Are%20The%20Most%20Common%20Ways%20To%20Commit%20Identity

Your Web Design Goals

The objective of this Post is to allow you to express to me your personal goals for this course. My hope is that by better understanding your expectations and goals for yourself in this course, I can focus the lessons and my approach to help you learn as much as possible. There are no wrong answers here. However, to get full credit for this assignment, you must address each of my questions or statements. Your comments must be numbered and in complete sentences with proper spelling and grammar. Hint: if you are not sure that you can fully answer all the questions below before the end of class, create a Word document to compose your answers and then copy-paste your answers into the comment box later.When you comment, use the "other" option and put in your first name and last initial only.

1. What do you primarily use the Internet for?
2. Have you ever created a Web Page?
3. What software or program (if any) have you used to create a Web Page?
4. If you had your own small business, what would your business use a web site for?
5. On a scale from 1 to 10 (10 is expert, 1 is computer illiterate), how are your computer skills?
6. In an average week, how many hours do you spend using a computer for various activities?
7. Why did you sign up for this course?
8. Which, if any, of the following computer applications are you "pretty good" or better at: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Dreamweaver, Google Documents, Blogger?
9. Which, if any, Business and Technology courses have you taken in high school?
10. What career(s) are you considering for yourself and why?