On Monday afternoon, I participated in a session at the CLC on the ongoing transformation of the Key Stage 3 curriculum. I led a session on using technology to enhance learning and teaching. Lindsay Coleman, Secondary Headteacher Consultant, delivered a session on current eLearning initiatives in Wolverhampton. Finally, Rebecca Orszulan from Trinity Primary School shared some of the exciting work going in the school, work which has just seen the school being awarded the Runners-Up prize in the prestigious BECTA ICT Excellence Awards in the Best Whole School category.

After my session, a number of people asked if I could email details of the websites and software I had mentioned. In the best tradition of Web 2.0, I decided to publish them here instead! Where I’ve given an external web link (i.e. other than on the CLC website) I’ve written out the url in full, so that a printed version of this post will be a usable resource.

The presentation

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As I’m working this week with a group of Year 10 students from Bilston High on a three day web design course, I thought I’d take the opportunity to collect together resources to support the teaching of web design to Key Stage 3/4 students (age 11 - 16).

My approach to teaching web design is basically this:

• The use of Cascading Style Sheets should be encouraged
• Using tables for layout as a starting point is OK (web design purists may argue with me on this one!)
• Focus on clear, simple design, with obvious navigational elements
• It is important to understand the basic principles of html, and to be able to interpret a limited number of html tags

Presentation

This presentation covers the basic principles of web design, including the history of web design
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