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Unit: Digital media design - designing a web page
Part B: Teaching sequence
The teaching sequence below provides an overview of the intended activities
in the fifteen week unit. Syllabus outcomes for each activity are indicated
in brackets (). For more information about syllabus links scroll to the bottom
of this page and click the Syllabus links button. Within the Teaching sequence
a number of activities are linked (shown in purple) to more detailed
teaching notes which include information about the activities and student handouts.
Student design task
Design a web page to represent yourself and to showcase your class work to
the school community. The web page will be published on the school’s
intranet.
| Week 1 |
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Introduction and overview
of the Technology (mandatory) course and course requirements
including design projects. |
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Determine prior knowledge about
the design process using a Think–pair–share activity (4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3). |
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Introduce the design task. Discuss
the Information and Communications area of study and
relate the design task to this area of study (4.1.3). |
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Introduction to using the school’s
computer rooms (4.3.1). |
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Review simple computing techniques
to establish students’ prior learning, e.g. logging
on, launching applications, saving documents, retrieving
files, use of the Internet (4.3.1). |
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Introduction to school Intranet
(4.3.1). |
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Introduction to Front Page (4.3.1). |
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| Week 2 |
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Analyse existing websites. Web
site review (4.1.1, 4.2.2, 4.3.1). |
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Identify key features of web site
design. Scavenger Hunt (4.1.1,
4.1.2, 42.2, 4.3.1). |
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Students retrieve design task from
shared folder and analyse the requirements. Design
task(4.1.1, 4.3.1). |
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| Week 3 |
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Guest speaker: school
intranet co-ordinator or network administrator to talk
about how web pages are developed within the school intranet
system and the benefits of their work to the school community.
Guest speaker to also help establish technical, graphical
and content parameters of the web site. Intranet
coordinator interview (4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.3.1, 4.4.1). |
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Use ICTs and establish time and
action plans (4.2.1, 4.5.1). |
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Establish criteria to evaluate
success. Developing success
criteria (4.1.1, 4.6.1). |
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| Week 4 |
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Develop design concepts
by sketching some initial ideas. Students record in folios
how their ideas are evolving (4.1.1, 4.2.1). |
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Select appropriate content for
pages. Consider relevant ethical issues, copyright requirements
and publishing guidelines. Selecting content (4.1.2, 4.5.2). |
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Refine design concept (4.1.1). |
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Draw storyboards to show layout
of web pages. Developing a storyboard (4.1.1, 4.2.1). |
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Students refine their ideas and
evaluate them against criteria for success. Refer back
to Developing success criteria (4.1.1,
4.6.1). |
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| Weeks 5–7 |
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Experiment with tools – scanner,
software, digital camera. Consider how such tools may
be applied to the final design. Record experiments and
evaluations in folio (4.2.2, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.5.2). |
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Experiment with techniques – organising
information, displaying information, scanning, background,
layout, manipulating and editing images. Record experiments
and evaluations in folio (4.2.2, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.5.2). |
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Make ongoing evaluations about
the results from prototypes. Refer back to Developing success criteria (4.6.1). |
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| Weeks 8–10 |
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Make decisions about
final web site design based on findings from experiments,
design ideas and ongoing evaluations (4.2.2). |
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Record justifications for technical,
text and graphical choices in folios (4.2.2). |
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Prepare final design sketches,
including revised storyboard layout, colour choices and
text (4.2.1). |
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Make ongoing evaluations about
final design choices. Refer back to Developing success criteria (4.6.1). |
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| Weeks 11–13 |
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Implement and apply
ideas to complete web page (4.3.2, 4.5.2). |
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Complete a final evaluation
report. Evaluation report (4.6.1). |
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Ongoing testing and modifications
to web page (4.3.1, 4.5.2, 4.6.1). |
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| Weeks 14–15 |
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Evaluate design solutions
in small groups. Peer evaluation (4.6.1). |
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Evaluate the impact this project
will have on the school community. Make projections about
future developments in this area and potential impact
on the community (4.6.2). |
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Year 6 students or school community
view web pages and provide feedback to student designers
(4.6.1). |
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