Rules, grades, supplies, and how not to lose your website
web.selah-hcs.orgweb design for kids // html5 + css3one day academy
HOW THIS CLASS WORKS
The book
Our textbook is Web Design for Kids Using HTML5 & CSS3 by Mrs. Sandra Gaiser, who built this course. Bring it every week. Homework lives at the end of each chapter and is due before the next class; weekly quizzes come from the Lesson Practice questions.
Grades
Homework 34% · Classwork 33% · Final Website Project 33%. Everything posts in Google Classroom. The final project is a six-page website with a written requirements ticket; see the Job Board.
Shop rules
No talking over the teacher, no eating at the machines, drinks wear lids, no headphones, phones stay away unless a parent calls, and the internet in this room is for building, not surfing. Break the equipment, replace the equipment. Be gentle with the machines; they are how we build.
YOUR FILES: THE ONE RULE THAT SAVES YOUR YEAR
Never have your website in only one place. Your site is a folder. Wherever you keep it (flash drive, Chromebook downloads, the Paint Booth's save slots), it also goes home weekly. A site that exists in one place is one accident from gone.
On a Chromebook
Chromebooks cannot run Notepad, but they do not need to. The Paint Booth runs entirely in the browser with save slots and a download button, and Text-editor apps from the web store work for offline files. Keep your images in your Files app in one folder named for your site, exactly like everyone else's folder.
SUPPLIES
The book, something to write with, a folder or binder for handouts and your safety pledge, and a flash drive if you are on a shared laptop. That is the whole list. No paid software, ever; every tool this class uses is free.