week date Work due today Class topics Work assigned today
0 Aug 28   Introductions: History, Geography email & screen capture
1 Sept 1 email & screen capture Squirrel email  
1 Sept 4   Squirrel Lab Hoax & Spam
2 Sept 8 Hoax & Spam Create your blog finish class assignment
2 Sept 11 Monday's class assignment Uploading files & Textile formatting.
 grade the "uploading files instructions"
3 Sept 15 grade the "uploading files instructions"

About Web Browsers

  
3 Sept 18   Internet searching and downloading Browser settings and reading about the web
4 Sept 22 Browser settings and reading about the web Dreamweaver & HTML basics
Print out the acrobat page of html codes, type them in and save per class instructions. Your finished page should look like this.
4 Sept 25

HTML excercise
Project : Stage 1
1st Meeting

 More HTML basics - lists and links. Start at the lists page for general instructions for this class.
Follow Dreamweaver basics to startup and enter the html codes. The finished page should look like this		 Lists and Links Practice
5 Sept 29 Lists and Links Practice Revise Links. Graphics + html practice. Read Castro Ch 6, "Using Images", p103-115.
5 Oct 2 Lists and Links Practice
Project : Stage 2
Group blog		 Review : Set up Group Blogs. Paste URL to blog entry. Using graphic images with html. Title and alt attribute. Common mistakes. work on Project : Stage 3
Resource lists
6 Oct 6 Project : Stage 3
Resource lists		 Basic Data Tables.
Formatting a basic html page - rugby.htm with lists, links and graphics. Copy in data table. Save web URL in blog.		 Finish off rugby page classwork.
Do the Web Style Guide reading.
Mid semester break
7 Oct 13   Introduction to styles. Styling with Dreamweaver
Styling html tags, font styles and colour. 		Work on Stage 4 of project.
7 Oct 16 Project : Stage 4
First Draft		 Styling Links and Lists. <DIV> and <SPAN>, style classes. Applying styles - internal and external style sheets.  
8 Oct 20   Using tables with styles for simple page design.  
8 Oct 23 Project : Stage 5
Final Site		 AECT conference.
Complete project web site.
9 Oct 27   Photoshop - scanning + image formats.
Follow instructions to scan two photos and create web page with thumbnails. 		Finish off thumbnails classwork
9 Oct 30 Web URL to thumbnails page in personal blog Photoshop - enhancing images. See how to enhance scanned images & how to enhance digital images Finish classwork and web graphics assignment
10 Nov 3 classwork & web graphics Powerpoint intro & basics. Slide Master.  
10 Nov 6   Practice slideshow design. Finish off classwork. Work on group project PPT presentation
11 Nov 10   Evaluate some presentations. Hyperlinks and Slide Notes.
Tables & animating charts		 Finish off classwork if neccessary. Work on group project PPT presentation
11 Nov 13 Group PPT presentations ready today Group presentations of PPT projects.
Class grading of content using spreadsheet 		 
12 Nov 17   Excel Introduction  
12 Nov 20   Excel Intro #2  
Thanksgiving Break
13 Dec 1   Excel formulae and charts Finish classwork if neccessary
13 Dec 4   Excel lookup table and addressing Do the excel review spreadsheet. This will prepare you for the test.
14 Dec 8   Excel test  
14 Dec 11   In class revision for exam Final Exam Study Guide
15 Dec 15   Online Exam