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Instructions to students
During Day 3, the final day of the project, you will continue to refine your template using HTML and CSS. You will learn the following:
- How to use CSS to add borders, padding, and to change text alignment of parts of your design.
- How to add page titles and why they are important (for search engines etc.)
- How to use the a:hover attribute to affect the appearance of links when the mouse rolls over them.
- How to control typography - font, line-height, and paragraph spacing - using CSS.
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filed under Session Reports February 4th, 2009 Richard Anderson
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Instruction for the students
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filed under Session Reports January 28th, 2009 Richard Anderson
Over the next three Thursdays, I’m working with Year 10 students from Parkfield High 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. A presentation, links and ideas from the sessions can be found in the “Web Design Resources” post.
Below are the student instructions for the sessions:
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filed under Session Reports January 21st, 2009 Richard Anderson
Use the comment box below to comment on the eSafety session today. Think about the following questions:
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filed under Session Reports September 28th, 2008 Richard Anderson
Today, I’m working with Year 9 students from St. Edmund’s 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 Dreamweaver for this project. A presentation, links and ideas for the session can be found in the “Web Design Resources” post.
Below are the student links for the session:
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filed under Session Reports June 25th, 2008 Richard Anderson
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:
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filed under Session Reports March 6th, 2008 Richard Anderson
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.
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filed under Session Reports December 10th, 2007 Richard Anderson
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:
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filed under Session Reports December 4th, 2007 Richard Anderson
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:
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filed under Session Reports December 3rd, 2007 Richard Anderson
For the next three days, I’m working with a group of Year 10 GCSE Art students from Wednesfield High on a digital art/animation project. The students will be using digital photographs taken in Wolverhampton City Centre to create a short film based around the concept of a journey.
Here is the sequence of activities for Day 1 of the project:
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filed under Session Reports November 27th, 2007 Richard Anderson
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