Assignments
In addition to the assignments below, each student is required to lead one 5-minute discussions on a technology news issue. The discussions will occur during the first 5 minutes of each class period. Go to the Course Outline for your assigned dates.
See Syllabus for grade weighting percentages. Download a grading rubric of your assignments.
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| Assignment |
Description |
Skills |
| Project 1 - Student Bio Website | Set up a site with at least four pages with bio info.. links and one image (photo). One page will be an assignment page that will hold links to other projects. | beginning HTML, images, Web hosting |
| Project 2 - Student Bio Redesign | Use Dreamweaver and Photoshop, to redesign the personal site you made with HTML. Add one page describing a hobby or organization of your choice. | Dreamweaver CSS Photoshop |
| Credibility Assignment | Select one online journalism website and review and analyze for credibility based on website evaluation lesson. Post on class blog. | Site credibility issues |
| Project 3 - Hobby or Organization Site | Set up a website for a hobby or organization that you are affiliated (no more than 5 pages total). Must be a new site, not a redesign of an existing site. (examples on the Student Work page.) | Advanced Dreamweaver and Photoshop |
| Slideshow Exercise | Use Javascript to create a photo slideshow. Learn how to manipulate and understand Javascript. | Javascript |
| iMovie Exercise | Apply basic video editing concepts like cropping, splitting clips, adding audio, transitions, so you can use them in your final project. | iMovie |
| Final Project & Draft | Create a multimedia reporting project, complete with HTML, CSS, at least five pages of content, Javascript, video, and all original work. | HTML, design, multimedia, or animation skills that best fit nature of reporting project |