Oklahoma Web Design
- Level High School
- Contact Hours 140
- Timeframe Year
This is a project-based course that teaches students how to build their own web pages. Students will learn the languages HTML and CSS, and will create their own live homepages to serve as portfolios of their creations. Students will finish this course with tangible, professional, mobile responsive websites.
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MODULES - 10
Students are provided with a high-level introduction to the Internet and how it functions, investigate how the Internet has impacted society over time and set course goals for themselves.
Students learn about the language behind all websites: HTML. Students learn about several different HTML tags as well as the basic structure of a web page. Students use HTML to develop several of their own creative web pages.
Students learn the language CSS and use it to style their web pages. Students learn about the benefits of styling with CSS and will use CSS to create several styled web pages of their own.
Students build their own websites about themselves. This site will be accessible on their own custom domain and will be continually improved by the student as they continue on in the course. It will serve as a running portfolio of each creative project they create in the course.
This module dives deeper into different things we can do with HTML and CSS. Students practice advanced topics in HTML and CSS, including visibility, image filtering, interaction, and animation, to develop more advanced websites.
Students develop an animated and interactive web page that tells a visual story and add this web page to their personal portfolio website.
This module introduces students to Bootstrap, an HTML and CSS framework for developing responsive, professional websites. Students use Bootstrap to develop several professional, mobile responsive websites.
In this project, students work in teams to create a professional, responsive website using Bootstrap.
This module introduces students to the theory and practice of user interface design. Students learn about what makes an engaging and accessible user interface and will employ an iterative design process including rapid prototyping and user testing to design and develop their own engaging web pages.
In this project, students work in teams to design, prototype, test, and develop a final website.
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In today's world, web pages are the main medium for sharing ideas and information. Learning to design websites is an incredibly useful skill for any career path. This Professional Development course prepares teachers to teach a successful Web Design course with CodeHS.
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Students build their own live web pages. The course is project based, and students finish with working, mobile responsive websites that act as a portfolio of what they made. Their homepage serves as the running showcase throughout the course.
The course teaches HTML and CSS. Students learn to structure pages with HTML and style them with CSS, then apply both to build and publish their own sites. Everything runs in the browser with no software to install.
No. CodeHS offers Teaching Web Design, a 40 hour professional development course that prepares teachers to run a Web Design class, including the content itself and the pedagogy around it. It assumes no prior web development background.
The course is built for about 140 contact hours across a school year. Because it is project based, the pacing depends partly on how much time you give students for their own site builds.
