Develop hypermedia home page documents. The student will incorporate essential elements into this web page, including formatted text, images, a background, table, and hypertext links to relevant web sites. The student will describe functions and features of Netscape Composer. The student will define important computer terms related to the Internet and telecommunications.
Students demonstrate their completed web pages to the class from the instructor's computer.
Rationale Computer and technology skills are essential components of every student's education. Ideally, these skills should be integrated into the curriculum of the major academic areas, rather than taught in isolation. By involving students in web page design, not only are we teaching technology, we are opening the door to innovative methods to teach writing, artistic design and self-expression. Web pages are a multimedia writing tool that provides students a way to communicate in written language as well as visually. Increasingly student's references and sources of information are multimedia or electronic, and web pages provide a way for them to deliver their research, and communicate their ideas, in the same manner.