A well-designed and constructed web page is like a dance, it's easy if you know the steps. With a little practice, you too can publish web pages that will enhance and showcase your classroom experience.
Our series of courses start with simple web publishing concepts and progress to dynamic HTML techniques. Using a hands-on approach, students will develop their own web pages, honing the skills learned in the courses.
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The World Wide Web offers revolutionary new opportunities to express yourself without bounds. All that's needed to publish your ideas to the entire world is access to a web server and the knowledge to create web pages. You can use the web to promote school activities or create a showcase to display school projects to parents and the community at large.
These courses are designed for the novice and require no previous web publishing experience. Each course builds on the skills learned in the previous course, from simple to complex design.
This program is designed around the "train the trainer" model. Therefore, it is recommended that each school select at least 4-6 participants for all three courses (classroom teachers and technology coordinators). This core group can then become the school's technical team for both designing and maintaining school web pages, as well as, training other teachers to design and create their own pages.
This course covers basic web publishing skills. You will build your own personal web page and place it on the web.
Using a simple text editor, you will add text and graphic content using basic formatting techniques. You can than place the finished page on a web server using File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
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This course builds on the skills learned in Intro To Web Publishing. You will learn more sophisticated formatting techniques. Learn how to submit your site to search engines and how meta tags will help search engines direct people to your page.
Cascading style sheets can add a consistent look and feel to your page while greatly reducing the work involved maintaining it. By reusing styles, you can easily change a page or add a new page without spending most of your time formatting.
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What is Dynamic HTML? DHTML allows you to design a web page that changes in response to visitor's actions. Much of this dynamic action is created using cascading style sheets and JavaScript.
This course will introduce you to JavaScript and teach you how to write simple scripts to interact with cascading style sheets and the Document Object Model (DOM). Only basic programming concepts will be covered.
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Technology environments are constantly evolving as educational demands are increasing. Keeping your school's technology infrastructure up to date can be both confusing and frustrating. New software requirements can stress older hardware environments to their limits; effecting the speed and usability of the system. Technology related considerations include:
We can help you evaluate where you are and help you get to where you'd like to be. Such evaluation assists in the allocation of funding resources, as well as, where professional development is and will be needed. This on-site service includes:
Spider Dance
3144 - 7th Street
Boulder, CO 80304
(303) 546-6238
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