1. September 3

• Introduction to class
• Form teams
• Web design

Assignments

1. Select a partner and a name for your team.  Register your team name and membership on the Class Discussion Board. (Limit 2 members per team. Designate a team member to do this...it only needs to be done once.)
2. What are the characteristics of well designed web pages/sites?  What are the characteristics of poorly designed web pages/sites. (See the sign on the east side of the entry plaza for details of this assignment)
3. Read "what is ASP?" (See the sign on the east side of the entry plaza for details of this assignment)
4. Review what has been submitted by everyone as characteristics of good and bad web pages.
5. Share your thoughts on what you see as good and bad web design on the Class Discussion Board.
6. Download and install the Microsoft SharePoint Designer program.

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2. September 17

• HTML Refresher
• Structured Query Language.
• Using ASP
• Interacting with a database.
• Resource: ASP Sample Code
• Due: Participate in Good/Bad Design Discussion

Assignments:

1. SQL Tutorial (You need to complete at least the first tutorial.  It will be to your advantage to get through the second tutorial if you can.)
2. Go to Level 1 for Assignments 1 and 1a.

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3. October 15

• Interacting with a database.
• Searching a database on a web page.
• Resource: ASP Sample Code
• Searching a database on a web page (cont.).
• Forms and Variables.
• Due: Complete SQL Tutorial
• Due: Assignment 1 and 1a

Assignments:

1. SQL Tutorial (You need to complete at least the first tutorial.  It will be to your advantage to get through the second tutorial if you can.)
2. Go to Level 2 for Assignment 2.
3. Go to Level 3 for Assignment

4. October 29

• Forms and Variables (cont.).
• Updating a database.
• Updating a database (cont.).
• Inserting information into a database.
• Resource: CIA World Fact Book
• Building Learning Activities with web pages and databases.
• Resource: Making Decisions: Constructing Computer Based Learning Activities.
• Due: Assignment 2
• Due: Assignment 3

  Assignments:

  1. Go to Level 4 for Assignment 4.
  2. Go to Level 5 for Assignment 5.

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5. November 19
 

• Building Learning Activities with web pages and databases (cont).
• Access databases.
• Due: Assignment 4
• Due: Assignment 5
• Due: Database and Unit/Lesson idea

  Assignment:

  1. Go to Level 6 to begin work on your final project.
  2. Develop a unit/lesson idea for using web pages and a database. 
  3. Develop an Access database for use with that unit/lesson.
  4. Share unit/lesson idea and database.
  5. Develop web pages for unit/lesson

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6. December 3

• Project Presentations
• Due: Web Pages Using Database for Learning Activities.

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