Today, I’m working with Year 11 students from Moreton Community School on a web design project. During the project, students will learn how to create a website using HTML for structure and CSS for styling. We will be using FrontPage for this project, as this is the software chosen by the school for web design work. A presentation, links and ideas for the session can be found in the “Web Design Resources” post.
Below are the student links for the sessions:

Reviewing websites

Review the site based on the following criteria - usability, accessibility, use of images, quality of text / content and navigation. Use the Diigo toolbar to annotate the site.

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Today, I’m working with Year 11 students from Pendeford Business and Enterprise College on a web design project. During the project, students will learn how to create a website using HTML for structure and CSS for styling. A presentation, links and ideas for the session can be found in the “Web Design Resources” post.

Below are the student instructions for the sessions:

An Introduction to Web Design

Here are the tasks for the day:

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During the second and third days of the project, Year 10 GCSE Art students from Colton Hills Community School visited the urban centre of Wednesfield to take photos around the theme of “Natural and Manmade”.

Upon returning to the CLC, the students were shown a variety of techniques for improving their photos, from effective cropping to more sophisticated effects using adjustment layers and filters. The students then used Flickr.com to share and annotate their photos.

In the final day of the project, students created video portfolios of their work in iMovie, combining together music, photos and text to create simple, effective showcases for their digital imagery.

To see a selection of the students’ images visit the session album in the gallery or view a slideshow on Flickr.

What the teacher said:

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For the next three days, I’m working with Year 10 students from Colton Hills Community School on a digital photography project. We will be looking at the technical side of digital photography (shutter speed, aperture, using focus lock, depth of field) and at ideas for effective composition (e.g. the “Rule of Thirds”). As the students take, edit and evaluate their photos, they will publish them to Flickr and learn how to organise and annotate their photos online.

Here are the student activities for Day One:

• Mindmapping - what makes a good photo?
• A technical intro to how cameras work - aperture, shutter speed, depth of field, focus
• A shooting challenge - students shoot photos around the CLC demonstrating low depth of field, high depth of field and focal lock
• Uploading images to Flickr, adding new photos, creating sets, annotating and tagging photos
• How to compose a photo - “the rule of thirds”, viewpoint, story-telling, simplicity
• Walking into Wednesfield on a scouting visit for locations, and taking shots.

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From the 20th - 22nd Nov, three groups of Year 7 students from Smestow Specialist Sports College attended sessions at the CLC as part of their Citizenship / PSHE programme of work. During the sessions, students participated in a variety of activities - mindmapping, using the voting systems and using Immersive Education’s Kar2ouche software - to think about issues related to discrimination in British society. Students created soap opera stories in Kar2ouche to explore how real-life students might handle and combat discrimination in a school environment.

What the teachers said:

Pupils have enjoyed their learning experience. They have become more confident in using the computers. Pupils have learned more about discrimination and were able to put their experiences across. They worked effectively in groups and showed very good team work.

Very well presented, full of pace and students were engaged throughout.

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