USD Division of Continuing Education

Web Design for the Educator - EDU 580WD

2.0 Semester Units

“MOVE UP THE PAY SCALE” SUMMER SALE – Get the units you need to move up on your district’s salary schedule. Now through August 31, register for this or any of our other independent study courses at a 10% reduced tuition fee.* This two-unit course is normally $205. For a limited time only USD is offering this two-unit registration for only $184—sale fee is reflected below. *10% Discount applies toward most independent study courses and not applicable toward scheduled and/or online courses. Discount available for Summer 2010 independent study course registrations received through 8/31/2010 only; not valid on previously registered courses. Discount is applicable toward course tuition fee only. Prior district approval for salary advancement units is recommended and the responsibility of each student.

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Designed by a teacher for teachers, this course will guide you through the basics of creating educational web pages without ever having to leave your home or school in order to attend a class.

This course is designed to teach basic web page design geared to any educational setting. It is a moderately challenging course that will require how to use the software or online tools you select for completing web pages. The course has two primary instructional objectives.

The content objective that teaches good web page design and the type of information contained on a useful educational web site.
The technical "how to" objective that guides your software or online choices needed to create a web page using commercial or free web page applications. Technical and design resources are provided within the course to assist you with all assignments.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, the participant will have had opportunity to learn:

How to build a simple web site consisting of a home page and at least four supporting pages
Basic vocabulary associated with web page design
The importance of understanding and adhering to copyright laws
How to properly cite Internet resources when building web pages
How to arrange folders and files when creating web pages
How to design effective educational web pages and web sites
The importance of useful, content rich educational web pages
How to evaluate classroom web pages and web sites
How to locate, create and use GIF (still and animated) and JPG images in web pages
The use of web page authoring programs to create web pages and web sites
How to use hypertext/hyperlinks, image maps, anchors, tables and other useful web design tools
How to view your newly created web pages in web browsers
Resources needed to publish web pages to the Internet

Course Requirements

In order to successfully complete the course, students will need the following:

Course Textbook. There is NOT a textbook required for the course. All necessary resources are found within the course.
Software to create web pages or easily accessed online web development/hosting sites. You are responsible in obtaining software or online services needed to complete the course and learning specific use of the software. You may use online web sites or any school provided web tools such as School Loop that are designed to allow creation of web pages. Microsoft Word can even be used to create web pages.
Online sites such as Google Page Creator, Yahoo GeoCities or Lycos Tripod allow you to easily create web pages AND to run them on their servers with no or little charge. There are many options to allow you successful website creation! A list of freeware and free sites, shareware and commercial software that you can assist with the course will be available once students have enrolled.
Hardware - Any PC or Mac will be fine. A CD burner would be needed if you plan on mailing your project to the instructor on a CD. Other options on how to submit your final project via posting online or by email are available.
Internet access and an e-mail account.

The course will cover basic web authoring, structure and design, focusing primarily on educational web page design and content.

This course is not designed to teach HTML code, Java, php or CGI scripting, although students are certainly welcome to use any design tools to create their web pages.

If you wish to have a book to assist with your understanding and creation of web pages, the inexpensive and easy to understand Dummies series books, including Creating Web Pages for Dummies (available at Amazon.com) is suggested.

National Standards Met

This course will meet several of the technology teacher standards set by the International Society for Technology in Education. Details of the standards can be viewed at Profiles for Technology-Literate Teachers

NOTE: This course will be labeled as independent study on your transcript.

HOW DO I RECEIVE MY COURSE INSTRUCTIONS?

Upon registering for this course, instructions will be e-mailed to you. Allow 48 business hours for this e-mail.

For questions regarding course content, contact instructor Joe Herz at (805)904-8191 or usdnet@usd-online.org with the Subject Line reading "EDU 580WD Question".

Web Design for the Educator - EDU 580WD


INSTRUCTOR:	Joe Herz


CLASS CODE:	EDU 580WD


CLASS CATEGORY:	Professional Growth