Ninth Grade Students’ Web Sites
Lessons learned and where do we go from here

Lessons learned
  • Discuss image gathering and scanning techniques first
  • Discuss collaboration workflow
  • Stay away from Word especially at the beginning
    • Adds obtuse code
    • Mangles images
    • Lengthens downloads
    • Not ubiquitous
  • If group project, discuss linking rules
  • Use "View Source" to look at code
  • The student's U drive is your enemy. How to spot U: drive references
  • What about 3rd party web components
    • Horrible code complexity
    • Maintainability
    • Tilts the playing field
    • Plagiarism?
  • Look out for


Where do we go from here
  • Hey, I should have done this in Expression Web!
  • Needs a czar
  • Brains need refreshing


Good and Bad Examples