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Learning the Basics

1 week

Standard & Benchmarks:

Scripting Language Fundamentals 1.1 and 6.1

Content:

Students will learn about the Dreamweaver GUI; recognize how Flash text differs from HTML test; define a new site; name, title, and save documents; specify preview browsers; specify background, text, and link colors; put text on a page and format it; and use the assets panel to select and apply color to text.

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Students will complete the exercises in the text book and projects that accompany the chapter.

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Textbook, Internet, and Guest Speakers

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Working with Graphics

2 weeks

Standard & Benchmarks:

Scripting Language Fundamentals 1.1 and 6.1

Content:

Students will learn to identify the graphics formats commonly used on Web pages, insert graphics on a web page, use the assets panel to manage graphics, wrap text around graphics and work with alignment options, and insert buttons and animations from Flash.

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Students will complete the exercises in the text book and projects that accompany the chapter.

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Textbook, Internet, and Guest Speakers

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Creating Links

1 week

Standard & Benchmarks:

Scripting Language Fundamentals 1.1 and 6.1 

Content:

Students will learn to define how linking works, choose objects to use as links, display linked content in a new browser window, create text links, graphic links, and hotspots, and create named anchors to jump to a location within a Web page.

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Students will complete the exercises in the text book and projects that accompany the chapter.

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Textbook, Internet, and Guest Speakers

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Working with Tables for Page Design

1 week

Standard & Benchmarks:

Scripting Language Fundamentals 1.1 and 6.1

Content:

Students will learn to import images to use as tracing images, use tables to lay out pages, work with tables in Layout, Standard, and Expanded mode, import tabular data, select elements of a table and modify their properties, sort tables, and export a table.

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Students will complete the exercises in the text book and projects that accompany the chapter.

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Textbook, Internet, and Guest Speakers

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Adding User Interactivity

1 week

Standard & Benchmarks:

Scripting Language Fundamentals 1.1 and 6.1

Content:

Students will learn to add user interactivity to pages by using behaviors, create and work with rollovers, attach behaviors to objects, modify behaviors, understand events, and add multiple behaviors to one user action.

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Students will complete the exercises in the text book and projects that accompany the chapter. 

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Textbook, Internet, and Guest Speakers

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Managing Your Site

1 week

Standard & Benchmarks:

Scripting Language Fundamentals 1.1 and 6.1

Content:

Students will learn to understand the purpose and uses of the Files panel, use the Files panel to perform site management functions, customize the Files panel, setup a connection to a remote site, and copy files to and from a remote site.

Suggested Student Performance/Product:

Students will complete the exercises in the text book and projects that accompany the chapter.

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Textbook, Internet, and Guest Speakers

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Exploring Flash

2 weeks

Standard & Benchmarks:

Scripting Language Fundamentals 1.1 and 6.1

Content:

Students will learn to explain vector graphics and raster images and their role in streaming technology, use the Flash Player, recognize Flash file formats, recognize Flash in action on various websites, understand the purpose of the stage, toolbar, panels, and timeline, open, close, and configure the panels in the workspace, work with Flash and use layers, use drawing tools, and use the property inspector to modify an object’s properties.

Suggested Student Performance/Product:

Students will complete the exercises in the text book and projects that accompany the chapter.

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Textbook, Internet, and Guest Speakers

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Creating a Logo

1 week

Standard & Benchmarks:

Scripting Language Fundamentals 1.1 and 6.1

Content:

Students will learn to create ovals and circles with the Oval tool, design gradient fills, create and edit symbols, import images into Flash, and Export images from Flash.

Suggested Student Performance/Product:

Students will complete the exercises in the text book and projects that accompany the chapter.

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Textbook, Internet, and Guest Speakers

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Designing a Home Page

1 week

Standard & Benchmarks:

Scripting Language Fundamentals 1.1, 6.1, and 6.2

Content:

Students will learn to understand the basics of site architecture and document sizing, use a background image as a guide, create and use graphic and move clip symbols, create and use layers and guides, import and place JPEG files, and create a template movie clip.

Suggested Student Performance/Product:

Students will complete the exercises in the text book and projects that accompany the chapter.

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Textbook, Internet, and Guest Speakers

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Adding Text and Navigation to the Home Page

1 week

Standard & Benchmarks:

Scripting Language Fundamentals 1.1, 6.1, and 6.2

Content:

Students will learn to create and configure text, line up objects with another layer, create a transparent overlay image, create navigation buttons, create layer folders, and insert Flash movies.

Suggested Student Performance/Product:

Students will complete the exercises in the text book and projects that accompany the chapter.

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Textbook, Internet, and Guest Speakers

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Working with Movie Clips

1 week

Standard & Benchmarks:

Scripting Language Fundamentals 1.1, 6.1, and 6.2

Content:

Students will learn to create a movie clip symbol out of existing layers or from another movie clip symbol, work in symbol-editing mode to edit a movie clip instance, and edit and align text boxes.

Suggested Student Performance/Product:

Students will complete the exercises in the text book and projects that accompany the chapter.

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Textbook, Internet, and Guest Speakers

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Creating Buttons

1 week

Standard & Benchmarks:

Scripting Language Fundamentals 1.1 and 6.1

Content:

Students will learn to import a sequence of images, create button symbols to control photograph navigation, add Action Script to buttons and frames to control movement on the timeline, and insert keyframes and frames.

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Students will complete the exercises in the text book and projects that accompany the chapter.

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Textbook, Internet, and Guest Speakers

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Motion Tweening

1 week

Standard & Benchmarks:

Scripting Language Fundamentals 1.1, 6.1, and 6.2

Content:

Students will learn to insert motion tweens to create animated transitions between sections of the web site, insert keyframes and frames to extend the timeline, create frame actions to stop the movie clip, and create button actions so users can navigate the gallery site.

Suggested Student Performance/Product:

Students will complete the exercises in the text book and projects that accompany the chapter.

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Textbook, Internet, and Guest Speakers

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Creating an Animated Map

1 week

Standard & Benchmarks:

Scripting Language Fundamentals 1.1, 4.1, 6.1, and 6.2

Content:

Students will learn to create a mask to control the view of a large graphic, create motion tweens that zoom in and shift position, use the pen tool to draw map highlights, add sounds to animation, and use a stop action to control movie segments.

Suggested Student Performance/Product:

Students will complete the exercises in the text book and projects that accompany the chapter.

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Textbook, Internet, and Guest Speakers

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Integrating Components and Dynamic Text Boxes

2 weeks

Standard & Benchmarks:

Scripting Language Fundamentals 1.1 and 6.1

Content:

Students will learn to add controls to the map, use Flash components to build a combo box for directions to the gallery, configure a dynamic text box to hold directions sent from Action Script, work with Action Script to process a user selection, and integrate and animate the visit section onto the main timeline.

Suggested Student Performance/Product:

Students will complete the exercises in the text book and projects that accompany the chapter.

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Textbook, Internet, and Guest Speakers

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Careers and Leadership in Web Design

1 week

Standard & Benchmarks:

Scripting Language Fundamentals 2.1, 2.2, and 3.1

Content:

Students will learn about the business student organization and opportunities to be involved in leadership activities.  They will also research careers in the web design and programming field.

Suggested Student Performance/Product:

Students will write a paper on a chosen career in the web area and present their findings to the class.

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Textbook, Internet, and Guest Speakers

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Web Publications

1 semester

Standard & Benchmarks:

Scripting Language Fundamentals 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3

Content:

Students will implement all of the tools that they have learned in the course to develop a website for a club or organization at school or a business in the community.

Suggested Student Performance/Product:

Students will complete a web page for a business, club, organization, etc.

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Textbook, Internet, and Guest Speakers

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