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| Being creative. Participants view websites, play with ideas, understand the major components required to put together an excellent site. They create structures and plans for the kind of website that they would like to own and reserve web space. |
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| Collecting images. The first part of any website is to bring together exciting visual material. In order to achieve this, children go through a crash course on photography on field. They are asked to bring with themselves a stock of images (including family photo stocks) when they come to class the next time around. |
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| Writing I. Based on the web structure and the photographs that they have created, they take a writing session, they go to wide open spaces for inspiration and come up with information about themselves, their families, pets, friends, idols, and more so that their work is content driven. |
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| Processing the text and the images (creating a digitized archive). Participants digitize the material that they have brought together as per the structures that they themselves set. They type a little, scan a little, capture images and decide where to place what. They learn how to be organized and structured. |
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| Design and layout I: setting up tables and panels. Time has come to start preparing web pages on DreamWeaver. Material for the right, left, top, and bottom panels are selected. Participants learn how to save for web reducing image sizes while maintaining quality on PhotoShop. The preliminary pages have taken shape. |
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| Writing II. Now that the text is placed, there is need for further work to assure that word lengths are appropriate, the writing style keeps strangers as well as those we know attracted to the website. Participants work on the material and are also assigned further work at home, such as collecting their parent’s resume, collecting short interviews, etc. |
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| Creating links while adding images. Now that the text is prepared, participants take on a combined photography and design reinforcement lesson on how to make web pages more attractive and how to integrate them together. They learn to look at holes in their pages and decide what material is appropriate to fill such holes. They look at colors and accessible fonts and enhance their pages. |
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| Design and layout II: main body and panel finalization. Now that we have reviewed and added text as well as images, it is time to review DreamWeaver as well as PhotoShop and brainstorm on how to spice their pages up. Participants explore sound, animation and freeware that visitors to the site can enjoy. |
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| Scripting and creating a gallery: No family or people site is complete without an excellent photo gallery. Participants put together their image of the day as well as a stock of images online. They create thumbnails and learn basic scripts and how to link them to the images. |
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| Going online. The site is reviewed for text, still image, animation, layout quirks, links, counters, email pointers, automation issues on multiple browsers and participants learn how to correct their work so it can be viewed without problems worldwide. Participants upload their sites. |
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| Awards time. Once published, they check to make sure that there are no problems such as missing photos. They present what they have put up to an audience of family, friends, and professionals. They create a mailing list of people who they would like to inform and send an .html mail inviting them to test their new site and receive awards on their specific areas of excellence. |
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| Party time. Instructors, participants (who have now developed new friendships, greater comfort zones) share their learning, enjoy each other’s company, give each other constructive and analytical feedback and have fun! |
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