Texas Web Communications

In this lesson, students understand how they can control and protect their footprint. As students use the Internet, they are building their digital footprint. This includes social media posts, emails, picture and video uploads amongst other online activities.

In this lesson, students will learn about and discuss cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is the use of electronic communication to harass or target someone. Cyberbullying includes sending, posting, or sharing negative, harmful, false, or mean content about someone else.

In this lesson, students will learn to recognize online predatory behavior and strategies on how to avoid and respond to it. The Internet is a great place to socialize, but it is important to be aware of risks. Common sense and following safety guidelines can help students stay safe online.

In this lesson, students will discuss and examine policies regarding privacy and security. Using best practices like setting strong passwords, reading privacy policies, and using https can help in staying safe online.

In this lesson, students will learn about and discuss information literacy. Information literacy is having the ability to find information, evaluate information credibility, and use information effectively.

In this lesson, students will learn what copyright laws are and how to avoid copyright infringement. They will explore why copyright laws are important and how they protect the creators.

In this lesson, students complete a summative assessment of the unit’s learning objectives.

In this lesson, students will have a high level discussion about what the internet is and how the internet works. The topics of anonymity and censorship will also be discussed.

In this lesson, we explore the hardware that makes up the internet and explore characteristics of that hardware that define our experience on the internet.

In this lesson, students will explore how internet hardware communicates using Internet Addresses and the Internet Protocol.

In this lesson, students will explore the DNS system and how it maps human readable domain names into actual accessible IP addresses.

In this lesson, students explore how messages get from one address on the internet to another.

In this lesson, students learn about the last piece of the puzzle for how the Internet works: Packets and Protocols. All information sent over the internet is broken down into small groups of bits called packets. The format for creating and reading packets is defined by open protocols so that all devices can read packets from all other devices.

In this lesson, students are presented with different ways that the Internet impacts their lives. The Internet affects the way that people communicate (emails, social media, video chat) and collaborate to solve problems. It has revolutionized the way that people can learn and even buy things. Because the Internet is present in almost every facet of people’s lives, there are severe ethical and legal concerns that derive from the Internet.

In this lesson, students will be introduced to HTML: the language for building web pages. Students will discover why HTML is important and how it works in order to start building their own web pages.

In this lesson we upgrade from simple tags to full HTML documents. We learn some new tags that let us put information in different places on the web page, and we learn about the nested tree structure of an HTML document.

In this lesson, students learn about formatting tags that let them modify the appearance of text and make their web pages look clear and aesthetically pleasing.

In this lesson, students learn how to add hyperlinks to their web pages using the <a> tag.

In this lesson, students learn how to add images to their own web pages using the <img> tag!

In this lesson, students learn how to add lists to their web pages and practice making different kinds of lists.

In this lesson, students learn how to create and add tables to their web pages!

In this lesson, students will use HTML styling to make their pages visually appealing and unique.

In this lesson, students will begin using CSS to add styling to their HTML pages.

In this lesson, students use CSS tag selectors to select all elements of the same kind (<table>, or <h1> for example) and give them all the same style.

In this lesson, students learn to use CSS class selectors to apply CSS styling to all HTML elements that share a specified class which allows students to be more specific when applying their styling.

In this lesson, students will use CSS Selectors by ID to select a single element to format on a webpage.

In this lesson, students will learn why multi-file websites are important and how they can create them.

In this lesson, students learn what a URL is and what happens when they visit a URL.

In this lesson, students will learn about the 4 main types of intellectual property and examples for each.

In this lesson, students will learn how companies protect intellectual property and specifically how firewalls and HTTPS work in protecting IP.

In this lesson, students will learn what web optimization and web conversion rate are why they are important and useful.

In this lesson, students will learn how to optimize a web site, understand how a search engine works, and use their understanding of F-pattern reading, SEO, and the Yoast tool to further optimize a site.

When was the first computer made? What did it look like, and what was it used for? In this lesson, students will explore the creation and evolution of computing machines that now permeate our day-to-day life.

How are computers organized? What are the main components of a computer?

In this lesson, we will explore how different organizational structures of computers interact with each other to make computers functional.

What kinds of software do computers use and need?

In this lesson, the topic of software is broken down into types of software, how they interact, and the specific functions of the different types of software.

What is hardware? How does hardware work?

In this lesson, hardware is broken down into the different physical components of computers and how they contribute to the function of the computer as a whole.

In this lesson, students will explore the hardware that makes up the internet and the characteristics of that hardware that define our experience on the internet.

In this lesson, students take a look at what client and server devices and applications are, the client-server model, and how databases are part of that client-server model. They will get a high-level view of how clients and servers work together to help exchange information and data over a network or the Internet.

In this lesson, students learn the pros and cons of using a self-hosted or web server provided solution for hosting a website. They will also learn that that choice depends on the circumstances and many variables within those settings. So there’s no right or wrong answer.

Where is computing headed? What is Artificial Intelligence and what are the potential impacts that this might have on our world?

In this lesson, students learn about Artificial Intelligence and how the landscape of computing might change in the future. Students will discuss how these future developments might impact our society.

In this lesson, students learn the basics of Design Thinking. Design Thinking is a step by step process that helps developers and entrepreneurs develop their products while considering their end-users and testing out products before releasing them. Students will get an opportunity to practice Design Thinking in all subsequent lessons in this unit.

In this lesson, students learn basic guidelines for evaluating their websites using criteria and rubrics.

In this lesson, students learn in more depth about the first principle of Design Thinking: Empathy. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another, and is the most important tenet of Design thinking. Students will practice building empathy by interviewing classmates and evaluating the accessibility of existing web pages.

In this lesson, students will take the information that they gathered in their interviews with peers to define a specific problem that needs to be solved. Students will create Point of View statements and composite characters to make a profile of the users who are in need of a fix to the problem that students define.

In this lesson, students will learn strategies to help them ideate solutions to the problems they have been exploring throughout the Design Thinking module. Students will spend class time brainstorming with classmates, and encouraging one another to come up with out of the box solutions.

In this lesson, students learn the basics of prototyping. Students will create a prototype based on ideas they came up with for their design project, and present prototypes to classmates for critiquing.

In this lesson, students will test one another’s prototypes and provide constructive feedback about its usability and aesthetic appeal. Students will also ask thoughtful questions of the testers to get a better understanding of their experience interacting with the prototype.

In this lesson, students review content with a 10 question End-of-Unit Quiz.