Our Web Design Workshop was a blast!

Hello Guys,

We met Friday at 10 am to learn Dreamweaver and after student picked up the basics like adding images and rollovers, creating links, changing background and formatting text , we went to more serious stuff with Dreamweaver's templates. All students understood very fast how to customize a template by changing images, background colors and text. It was a joy to see how fast the group turned into a team of web designers. I see the potential here. Keep it up and come back for the next work shop!

The screenshot depicts Guillermo's website.

Dreamweaver CS3 Workshop July 24 2009

Room: 217 - Time: 9:30 - 1 pm

This workshop teaches students the skills to create graphic designs and advertisements, which are the basic skills for any Internet related position as Web Master, Web Designer, HTML Programmer, Graphic Designer. The workshop provides additional skills useful for just about anyone working with a computer.

This workshop will teach the skills that enrich every student’s resume and help them in obtaining their first internship or full time position out of college The main objective is to introduce the students of CIS 101 Intro to Information Technology for web design and to familiarize them to the concepts of the internet, web development, web programming and to teach them how to use state of the art Web Development software like Dreamweaver CS3 and Photoshop.

The website created in this workshop can becomes a showcase of skills that the student can use at their first job interviews to make a first lasting impression and to demonstrate true hands on skills.

The students will be able to do the following after this workshop:
• they can open and close Dreamweaver CS3
• they will be familiar with the interface and the most commonly used commands and file menus
• they will know how to save their project
• they can create a root folder and image/asset folder
• they can create a blank page
• they will be able to create a page from template
• they will be able to edit page properties
• they can use the color picker and also use the hexadecimal color code or RGB color code to select colors
• they can import text and write /edit text
• they will learn to create links
• they will understand and be able to use HTML tags to code pages
• they will learn to import images
• they will be able to check their pages in different browsers
• they will be able to understand the code and the design view and how to switch between them
• they will be able to add additional pages and link them together


To sign up for the workshop, log in to your student account at STARZ located at http://www.careercollege.edu. You will find a link to all upcoming workshops on the left side in the navigation menu. After clicking on that link select the workshop that interersts you and sign up for it.

Today's Workshop Was Awesome

WOW, You guys are sooo talented! I had no idea how many creative minds I have in my classes this module!!

I have a gut feeling that many of you were surprised yourself about your own talent. Sometimes a talent is there, but the owner is unaware. We woke a good number of sleeping, and hidden talents up today -YES, I am very satisfied with today's results. I hope that most of you will post their artwork in their blogs to get others inspired and to show what you can do.

Everyone who missed today's workshops g check out the student blogs -- you can get there by clicking the follower's thumbnails on this page.

Here are examples of today's project:

Matching textbook referrences - Add 63

Hello Students,

For everyone who is currently using "Introduction to IT" CIS 101 by Gary B. Shelly and Thomas J. Cashman edition 2008. All References in chapters higher than Chapter are wrong. That has been proved to be extremely frustrating for anyone working on homework assignments, for example if you look at page 155's True or False Assignment. Each question points to the page where you can find the answer.

So on page 42 you are supposed to see the answer for the first question "It is easy to count the number of global web sites and web pages (42)"
Page 42 belongs to an earlier chapter and ha nothing to do with the answer to this question.

However, now with the help of Mr. Brandon M. Pickens, I figured it out. The book is 63 pages off. The solution is as follows: Add 63 to the number listed as reference, and you get the correct page.


Give it a try.

In this case 42 + 63 = 105.
On page 105 you find "..estimating the number of web pages and Web sites is virtually impossible..."
Now, you can easily answer question 1
"It is easy to count the number of global web sites and web pages (42)" - Answer : False

Adobe Photoshop Workshop July 17, 2009

Adobe Photoshop Workshop - July 17th 2009
Room: 217
Time: 9:30 to 1 pm

This workshop teaches students the skills to create graphic designs and advertisements, which are the basic skills for any Internet related position as Web Master, Web Designer, HTML Programmer, Graphic Designer and which enrich the skills of anyone working with a computer. This workshop will teach the skills that enrich every student’s resume and help them in obtaining their first internship or full time position out of college. After the workshop, studetns will be able to:

Students can open and close Adobe Photoshop
Students become familiar with the interface and the most commonly used commands and file menus
They can start a new image with the correct settings appropriate for the project’s chosen medium (print or web)
They know which resolution and dpi(Dots per inch) to pick and the meaning and purpose of each.
They know how to save their project
They can select a foreground and background color
They can use the color picker and also use the hexadecimal color code or RGB color code to select colors
They can use the paint tool and select differed brushes
They can select colors ad use the bucket tooThey can use the gradient tool and select different gradient styles
They Learn to work with layers
Learn to import graphics
Save your work for different formats like the web and print media\
Save your work as pdf, jpg and gif images
Create logos and optimize artwork for the web
Create artwork for your web pages

To sign up for the workshop, log in to your student account at STARZ located at http://www.careercollege.edu. You will find a link to all upcoming workshops on the left side in the navigation menu. After clicking on that link select the workshop that interersts you and sign up for it.

Welcome to Mrs Dale's Classroom Blog

Welcome!

I thought I am going to create this blog to make it easier to stay in touch with all my current and past students. I will keep you all posted on upcoming workshops, and job opportunities when something becomes available.

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Talk to you soon,

Mrs. Dale