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Welcome to Mr. Steenstra's

Web Site Design Class!

Click here to see Calvin's Student Web Site, designed by the Fall 2006 Web Site Design Class. The links below will bring to specific pages within the student web site.

  • Click here for Web Site Design Class resources.

  • Click here to see the student pages for Fall 2006 Web Site Design Class students. Each student page includes a link to their portfolio. Portfolios include links to the pages the students designed, lessons learned as a result of the class, and suggestions for Calvin's web site.

  • Current students may click here to see their commitment record status.

Course Description:

In this course the students not only learn how to design web sites, but also take responsibility for managing Calvin’s web site! The students play a large part in determining the tasks they participate in, and when they will complete them. The instructor, Mr. Steenstra, acts as a coach and guide to help them along the way, and to keep them accountable to the commitments they’ve made. So far, the class has added more than 50 pages to Calvin’s web site. New pages range from articles and photographs of the latest events, to up-to-date sports scores and schedules. In addition to gaining first-hand experience in web design, students express their faith by providing Christian service to the community.

On-Going Activities:

  • Each section of Calvin’s web site will be assigned to the students in the class. Students will suggest and implement improvements for their section.

  • Each student/team will be responsible for creating a feature news article that will be listed on Calvin’s home page for a short time and then moved to the news section of the web site. The article must include photos. Resources outside of the classroom may be utilized. This assignment will rotate through the students in the class.

One-Time Activities (in sequence):

  • Determining the Characteristics of Great Web Sites – Class Project: This includes the evaluation of several existing web sites.

  • Creating a Basic Web Page: Students will learn how to use FrontPage 2003. Each student will create a personal web page that will be accessible over the Internet.

  • Advanced Web Page Design: Students will enhance their personal web page by adding pages, modifying the background, inserting tables, adding images and more.

  • Customizing and Managing Web Pages and Images: Students will further enhance their personal web page by adding advanced image files, bookmarks, drawings, hotspots and more.

  • Portfolio: The portfolio includes a critique of and suggestions for Calvin Christian’s Web Site as well as descriptions of and links to all of the pages designed by each student.

Grading:

  • Students will make commitments to improve Calvin’s web site and their own web design skills. They will be graded according to how well they've kept their commitments.

  • Students will create a portfolio that describes the work they’ve completed for the class. The completed portfolio will count as the final exam.

Note: For some students this will be a semester class, and for others it will be a yearlong class. Those taking it for the entire year will spend the second semester maintaining Calvin’s web site.