Creating A blog

1. Go to the following link and create a blog of your own
www.blogger.com

2. Choose a topic of your choice and teach us in your blog a difficult technical concept, piece by piece, with examples, or drawings, animations and pictures.

example of a technical concepts could be;

"how video conferencing work"

"what causes earthquakes"

"How computer games are created"

"How the internet works"

"How supercomputers are used for space exploration"
etc
3. Show a list of your reference sources.

4. At the end, give your personal reflection of the entire process.

Social Networking

Use the link below to write brief notes on social networking.

http://www.whatissocialnetworking.com/

After the notes
Search for 1 religious, 1 political, and 1 educational social network and for each write repond to the following

a) What is discussed in each social networks?

b) what are some advantages the social network?

c) What are some of the problems of using the social network?

Open the link below read the article shown.

http://mashable.com/2007/07/09/beautiful-social-networks/

Write the following

• In the article, which are the best social networks and why?

Web 2.0 Research

Go to the link below and write brief notes on the following.

http://jcal.info/web2/


What is Web 2.0?
Introduction
New Internet Tools
New Website Design
New Social Networking
New Literacies
Web 2.0 and Education
Learners Participate!
e.g. Weblogs
e.g. Wikis
e.g. Social Networks
e.g. Tagging
http://www.plymouth.k12.ct.us/page.cfm?p=775

Webdesign Software

A part from using frontpage, you can use the following resources for your webdesign.

www.weebly.com you can host a free site for more than 2 months

www.wix.xom you can only host the site for 15 days.

Look at an example created using weebly by a Year 9 student

http://cultureingermany.weebly.com/index.html


Look at the example created using wix.

www.wix/year8akam/main

Weekend Assignment ( To be submitted Nxt Week)

Kindly confirm with your subject teacher the website project you will undertake. Some students have already been given ago ahead after sharing who their client will be.

( To answer the question below, refer to the Investigate Stage Assessment rubric)

a) Describe the problem of your client in detail showing it's relavance. This will be possible only if you interview your client.

( write at least 150 words for this)

b) Design brief: This will elaborate what you are going to create and why. All that you will need will also be described in the design brief. (all of us are creating a website)

(Write at least 80 words for this)

c) Research; Several resources will be required for this project to be done. They include internet websites, internet articles, textbooks, magazines, and webdesign experts or persons.

For each of the sources above

i) Write down at least 5 records of information obtain from the source.

ii) Write down either the URL address of the website,or the title of the article, or the name of magazine, or the name of the person.

iii) The dates of each source sould be shown. If you interview somebody, write the day the interview was done.

(at least 300 words)

d) Design Specification
i) Based on your specific problem and the research we did on features of a good website, write down the 10 features would you like to be in your website? Each each feature give a reason


ii) Testing your website

- Which three people will test you website and why?

- Write down the different questions you will ask the three named persons above during the testing stage?

All the above should done in your note book, stick any additional information in your note book neatly.

HTML Activity

Click on the link below and attempt the HTML activities provided.


http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp

Web Design Activities Wk2

Task 1 10 Minutes

1. Many website have been designed to solve or address societal problems.

a) Search and write down in your notebook three such types of websites stating who benefits from them.

b) Which 3 websites in Kenya would you rank the best any why?

c) Which 3 websites in Kenya would you rank the worst and why?

Task 2 20 Minutes

2. Different types of web design langauges are used to design websites. Search and describe briefly in your notebooks 5 types of web design languages, stating their similarities and differences.


Task 3. 20 Minutes.
Be ready to present this in class.
3. Which group of people or business would you design for them a web site and why?