{"id":233,"date":"2013-06-28T11:10:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T11:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/student-centered-web-design\/"},"modified":"2013-06-28T11:10:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T11:10:50","slug":"student-centered-web-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/student-centered-web-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Centered Web Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alfred &#8220;interviewed&#8221; me at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.acthompson.net\/2013\/06\/cs-educator-interview-kathleen-weaver.html?spref=tw\">http:\/\/blog.acthompson.net\/2013\/06\/cs-educator-interview-kathleen-weaver.html?spref=tw<\/a> and I thought there would be more back and forth but maybe this is the way to do it.\n<\/p>\n<p>Texas has TEKS for every course, a list of things we are supposed to address.  The Tech Apps and CS course TEKS are listed here: <a href=\"http:\/\/ritter.tea.state.tx.us\/rules\/tac\/chapter126\/ch126c.html\">http:\/\/ritter.tea.state.tx.us\/rules\/tac\/chapter126\/ch126c.html<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Our district has curriculum planning guides but they are going away.  That means they won&#8217;t be updated, but that also means that they can&#8217;t make me throw mine away.  Two other teachers wrote a document that is worth about 4 weeks&#8217; worth of class, maybe more that is mostly social networking.  I took our old CPG, took out the software and aligned it to old TEKS and made it available to the rest of the group.\n<\/p>\n<p>We also have a final exam that is provided by the district that is used to assess the principals and the school, and I spent some time on about 10 years ago.  I&#8217;ve been vetting it, and complaining about questions but haven&#8217;t been listened to in a while.  That makes up 15% of the semester grade.  It is also supposed to be used to evaluate me next year.  I am supposed to be writing questions for it.  We&#8217;ll have to see if any of my input is listened to.  So far I am not optimistic.\n<\/p>\n<p>Do I sound frustrated?\n<\/p>\n<p>The way I teach the class, and the way I have designed the class, is that we have students design web pages while teaching them HTML, CSS, and the software that is available to use it.  Last year, I used Expression Web and Adobe CS 4. Why Adobe CS4? There are massive test questions on it.  Also Flash.  Why Flash? There are massive test questions on Flash.\n<\/p>\n<p>The part that frustrates students, is that we have them write web pages that they can use.  Here is a list:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Write an About Me web page\n<\/li>\n<li>Write a Greeting Card web page with images\n<\/li>\n<li>Create a vacation website using a common external style sheet\n<\/li>\n<li>Write a Client Web Site for a client you pick\n<\/li>\n<li>Create a logo for yourself\n<\/li>\n<li>Create a banner for yourself\n<\/li>\n<li>Create a Portfolio showing all the work you did in the course\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The part the hate the most is coming up with original ideas. They really just want to copy something that someone else did, but then isn&#8217;t the course, just a weird typing class?\n<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and guess what I get \u2013 5 or 6 of the same web sites \u2013 pounding head against wall.\n<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully I&#8217;ll feel better in August.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfred &#8220;interviewed&#8221; me at http:\/\/blog.acthompson.net\/2013\/06\/cs-educator-interview-kathleen-weaver.html?spref=tw and I thought there would be more back and forth but maybe this is the way to do it. Texas has TEKS for every course, a list of things we are supposed to address. The Tech Apps and CS course TEKS are listed here: http:\/\/ritter.tea.state.tx.us\/rules\/tac\/chapter126\/ch126c.html Our district has curriculum planning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}