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Standards
Web Design & Development
ISTC 301
Teaching with Tech
Standards
“The digital-age teaching professional must demonstrate a
vision of technology infusion and develop the technology
skills of others. These are the hallmarks of the new education
leader (Knezek, 2008).”
 Guidelines for teachers: skills & attitudes
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National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
Maryland Teacher Technology Standards (MTTS)
 Demonstrate standards alignment in PTE and
portfolio
MTTS Group Activity
 Review your groups’ assigned standard, then present
the standard and share an example activity that may
be implemented in the classroom as evidence of
meeting the standard. Be specific about the
pedagogical goal and the technology used to address
it.
Online Portfolio Project Rubric
Content (see below) - 60 points
 Web design (readable, professional, navigable, correct grammar and spelling) - 10 points
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A complete online portfolio should include a page for each of the following components
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An introduction page with name, professional info, and picture (examples here and here)
Inspiration web
Summary of and link to learning theories project
Content software evaluation project (summary of findings; links to BCPS rubric and PowerPoint
presentation)
Assistive technology screenshot of alt tag in SharePoint
Blogging & Web 2.0 (screenshot of blog post and link to blog post)
Digital storytelling (brief description of story; picture from story; screenshot of video)
Practical teaching experience (links to lesson plan, presentation, reflection)
Reflection: review and reflect upon the views on classroom technology use blog post that you wrote
at the beginning of the semester.
In addition, for each of these components you must identify one or two of the MTTS and
briefly discuss how you see your work (both your thinking, and the product) on the
project as being representative of the outcome prescribed within the standard.
Web Design Guidelines:
User-centered design
 Who is your audience?
 Good structure and organization
 Clear, consistent, and easy navigation
 Simple, clean design
 Readability:
 Professional
 Proofread!
be wary of color choices!
Web Page Development with SharePoint
 Create root portfolio folder
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Everything for website goes in folder!
 Connect to WWW folder on Tiger
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\\tiger\yourusername\WWW
 Naming conventions
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Folder name & document name must have NO spaces,
punctuation, funny characters like *$%@´~`
 Create home page
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Save as index.html
Name, professional info, and picture
Web Page Development
 Text
 Images
.jpg & .gif only
 Clip art
 From file
 Resize
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• Colors
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Background, text, and links
 Links
External
 Internal: link to inspiration.html & create consistent
navigation within site
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Web Page Development
 Using tables for layout & design
 Preview in browser
 Check your site
 http://tiger.towson.edu/~username/portfolio/
Online Portfolio Development
 Create a new page for each portfolio component (i.e.,
inspiration.html) - see rubric for list of components.
Save into portfolio folder!
 Update internal navigation as you go so that users
can find their way around your site
 See wiki for project details